North Texas traveled to Monroe to take on Sun Belt Conference member University of Louisiana-Monroe. On paper it looked like a possible close game until the second half. But from the start of the game North Texas notified everyone that wasn't going to happen. Even though they went up big during the first half, they got sloppy during the second half allowing ULM to close to within eleven before finally pulling ahead to win 68-55.

Tony Mitchell got the opening tip-off, followed it up on a feed to hit a three and North Texas was off to the races, leading wire to wire. ULM couldn't hit a shot, they turned the ball over, couldn't get a rebound, had several charging fouls while North Texas seemed to everything right in the first half.

North Texas was up 15-2 at the 13:27 mark and with about 11 minutes left in the game seven North Texas players had scored.

When ULM tried to mount a comeback North Texas kept answering and at the 7:38 mark in the first half North Texas was up 23-8. ULM hit two threes in a row before half but Jones stopped the 6-0 run when he added a basket to make the halftime score 37-18.

Forrest Robinson got a lot of action in the first half as he got a rebound and added to the point total.

Mitchell opened the second half North Texas scoring with a three. Then for the next few minutes both teams basically traded baskets. North Texas able to pull ahead but then started to get sloppy allowing ULM to close the gap. With under five minutes left the score was 64-51 and it felt like ULM was starting to mount a comeback when the score was 66-55 with about three minutes left in the game. ULM had opportunities to cut into the North Texas lead but they missed their shots.

Even though North Texas had the opportunities they could not seem to pull away from ULM because of their sloppy play. Neither team could build on their score until Franklin hit the final basket of the game with about two minutes left to make the final score 68-55.

Franklin led North Texas in scoring and rebounds with 16 points and 15 rebounds. Mitchell missed a double-double ending the game with 15 points and nine rebounds. Walton had a career high18 points and stuck in 5 of 8 three pointers.

Normally, three point baskets keep ULM in the game but poor shooting and the North Texas defense in their faces they only put in 4 of 18 attempts.

North Texas improves to 11-8, 4-2, ULM falls to 2-17, 1-5 and now 0-9 at home.

North Texas Head Basketball Coach Johnny Jones stated after the ULM game he “thought we got off to a great start” as his team went up 15-2 within the first few minutes of the game. He felt his team “set the tone of the game” which they held until about halfway through the second half.

Jones was “disappointed in the second half in the last 8-10 minutes” of the game. At that time North Texas was trying to take some “time off the clock” but they didn't play well. The defense allowed ULM to get some baskets and the offense couldn't get some balls to drop. The team was “really good for about 32 minutes tonight.”

Roger Franklin's “15 rebounds is big” but the coach was “mad” at his play during the end of the game. They coach said Franklin “had an opportunity for a 20 rebound night.” Like the rest of the team he let his intensity go down during the last ten minutes which cost him the opportunity to get to the twenty plateau.

“Walton is coming into his own” after getting 16 points and 15 rebounds. Every game his “field goal percentage is improving” and as a result, his teammates are “looking for him and feeding him.”

The next game will be an exhibition game against Huston-Tillotson and is the DISD game. There will be about 2,000 DISD students in the stands for the noon game. Jones felt this was a great opportunity to get the kids exposed to North Texas and “hopefully we can get them to come back to campus.” The kids “do a great job leading our team to victory.”

The next home game after the exhibition game will be against Sun Belt Conference member Denver.