🆚 University of Louisiana-Monroe
📆 Thursday, November 13, 2025
⏰ 7 pm CT
🏟️ Sharp Gymnasium – Houston, Texas
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Houston Christian University hits the court Thursday night for the first of two straight home games when it hosts University of Louisiana-Monroe. Tip-off with the Warhawks is slated for 7 pm in Sharp Gymnasium.
The Huskies are now 1-1 after dropping their first road contest of the season, falling 78-60 to UC San Diego at Lion Tree Arena on Saturday night in La Jolla, California. A tie game midway through the first half turned into a 14-point deficit at the half that the Huskies never recovered from.
The Huskies put a solid closing stretch on the board, outscoring the Tritons 22-10 over the final 5:46, hitting seven of their last eight shots. HCU shot 44% from the floor and 32% from the arc but just 36% from the charity stripe. UCSD connected on 10 from long range and forced 16 turnovers that turned into 23 points, and outrebounded the Huskies 38-29.
D'Aundre Samuels led the Huskies with 12 points off the bench.
Demarco Bethea had 10 points and five boards while
Kylin Green added nine points and four rebounds.
Mambourou Mara and
Obadiah Curtis each registered seven points, with Mara chipping in five caroms and three assists.
Doty, the ninth head coach in program history, enters his second season at the helm after guiding HCU to a 12-20 overall mark and 9-11 ledger in Southland Conference action in 2024-25. The Huskies doubled their success rate from the previous season, going from six total wins to 12 and from four victories to nine in conference play, finishing seventh in the league after being picked to finish last. HCU advanced to the Southland Tournament and saw
Bryson Dawkins named All-Conference as just the second player in program history to pick up SLC First Team honors.
Through a pair of games, senior guard
Kylin Green is the lone HCU player in double-figure scoring at 13 points per game while also leading the club in assists at five per. Junior guard
D'Aundre Samuels scores nine points a game and leads the team from the arc at 50% on 4-8 shooting.
Grad forward
Trent Johnson and junior forward
Mambourou Mara are turning in jack-of-all-trades efforts. Johnson is averaging 7.5 points, four boards, three assists, two blocks and a steal and Mara chips in seven points, 5.5 caroms, two assists, 2.5 blocks and 1.5 steals per.
The Huskies take on the University of Louisiana-Monroe in the 28th meeting between the two schools. Last season the two teams met for the first time since the 1983-84 season, with the Huskies taking a 74-68 victory in Monroe behind a career-high 32 points from
Julian Mackey.
ULM leads the all-time series 18-9, but HCU has won the last six meetings. The two schools were charter members of the TAAC (now Atlantic Sun Conference) in 1978, with Monroe leaving for the Southland Conference in 1982. The Warhawks, now members of the Sun Belt Conference, come into Thursday night's contest at 1-2 on the season, falling in road contests at Northern Illinois and Ole Miss before knocking off Rust College for their first win of the season on Monday night.
The Warhawks are led by coaching veteran Phil Cunningham, who is in his first season in Monroe. ULM is paced by hometown product Krystian Lewis, a 6'3 sophomore guard who is averaging 15.3 points, 2.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 2.0 steals on the season.
Lewis is joined in double-digits by 6'3 redshirt junior guard MJ Russell of Coker, Alabama who averages 14.7 points and 6'9 sophomore forward Renars Sondors of Riga, Latvia, who chips in 10.7 points and 3.3 boards.
Thursday's game will be the 11th time for the Huskies to play on November 13. HCU holds a 5-5 record on this date, most recently playing last year in a loss at #14 Creighton University. The last victory for HCU on 11/13 came in 2021 with a 122-44 victory over Barclay College in which the Huskies set a school single-game record with 22 made three-pointers.
HCU will have a week off before hosting College of Biblical Studies on November 20. The Huskies then embark on a five-game road stretch that includes a trip to the East Coast for three games that sandwich Thanksgiving Day. The road travels will take the Huskies to the Metroplex for a game against North Texas to begin the month of December before culminating with the Southland Conference opener on December 6 at University of New Orleans.
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