Looking for third straight win at Arlington
2/9/2011 6:58:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The contest matching the Bearkats (4-4 in Southland play) and the Mavericks (5-3 in the league) will be broadcast live on KSAM 101.7 FM.
Sam Houston State holds a 35-20 advantage in its men's basketball series with UT-Arlington. The Mavericks defeated the Bearkats 65-58 in the pair's first meeting this season January 12 in Huntsville.
Since the win over SHSU in Huntsville, UTA has won four of its last six Southland games to stand 11-10 for the year and 5-3 in league action. UT-Arlington is tied for first place in the West Division along with UTSA and Texas State.
Senior 6-7 forward Gilberto Clavell is the Southland's second-leading scorer (20.0 points) and ranks in the top 25 in scoring nationally. He has scored in double figures in 20 of the Kats' 21 contests this year (including 11 games with 20 or more points).
With 982 career points in 54 games since transferring to Sam Houston from Collin Country Community College, Clavell is 18 points away from becoming SHSU's first junior college transfer to score 1,000 career points in two years of action at the NCAA Division I level.
Only 21 other players have scoring 1,000 career points in their careers as a Sam Houston State men's basketball student-athlete.
Clavell is averaging 18.2 points per game as a starter for the Kats, totaling double figures in 47 of his 54 appearances. He has earned Southland "Player of the Week" honors twice this year and five times as a Bearkat.
Donald Cole, the Southland "Player of the Year" in 2003, totaled 984 points in his two years as a Bearkat. Corey Allmond, the three-point shooting wonder from last year's championship team, totaled 979 career points.
Clavell and fellow seniors Josten Crow and Lance Pevehouse are the co-captains and leaders of the 2011 Sam Houston squad. Crow is the only four-year player on the team. The 6-4 forward has scored 683 points in 105 career games. Pevehouse is in his third season at SHSU with 621 career points in 83 appearances.
Both Crow and Pevehouse have earned the bachelor's degrees and are now doing post-graduate work. The pair both have been named as 2011 CoSIDA Academic All-District performers and thus are eligible for the Academic All-America ballot this season.
Clavell was Southland Conference "Newcomer of the Year" and an All-Southland Tournament performer. Crow ranked No. 1 in the Southland and No. 2 nationally in assist/turnover ratio. Pevehouse has provided a consistent perimeter scoring threat for the past three years.
Bo Ingram scored 28 points to lead UT-Arlington to a 65-58 Southland Conference men's basketball victory over Sam Houston in the pair's first meeting at Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum.
UTA took the lead on a three-point shot by Ingram with 4:13 remaining in the first half and never trailed again. The Maverick defense limited Sam Houston to 18-of-52 shooting from the floor (34.6 percent) as the Kats hit only 4-of-22 shots from three point range.
