🆚 University of North Texas
📆 Tuesday, November 29, 2025
⏰ 7 pm CT
🏟️ The Super Pit – Denton, Texas
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Houston Christian University turns the corner of its season-long five-game road stretch when it heads straight up Interstate 45 to Denton on Tuesday evening to take on University of North Texas. Tip-off from the Super Pit is scheduled for 7 pm.
HCU finally returns to the Lone Star state, albeit on the road, after a week spent on the East Coast. The Huskies split a pair of games at The Citadel MTE, falling in a tough one to Bellarmine before outlasting the host Bulldogs. HCU then dropped a Saturday matinee at Georgia Southern University in the midway point of the stretch that now takes them north to take on the Mean Green for the second year in a row.
The Huskies and Eagles battled back-and-forth for the better part of 30 minutes on Saturday before the hosts began to pull away. A seven-point deficit at the half was trimmed to one on an
Ryan Bartley triple with 13:57 to go, but the Eagles then slowly extended their margin. A Bartley dunk cut the lead to 13 with 4:33 to play, but that was as close as the Huskies got the rest of the way.
Elijah Brooks led three players in double-digits with 12 points. Bartley recorded his third straight double-figure contest with 11 points to go with a team-best six rebounds and
Demarco Bethea capped off a solid trip with 11 points and five boards.
Kylin Green added eight points, four boards and four assists.
Craig Doty, the ninth head coach in program history, is now in 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.
The Huskies now have a trio of players in double-digit scoring, bolstered by the return last week of
Elijah Brooks, who missed the first four games. He is leading the charge at 13.3 points per night while also chipping in six boards, 2.3 assists and 1.5 steals.
Kylin Green is just behind him at 12.9 points while also grabbing 5.1 boards. He leads the team with 5.6 assists and a 41.7% clip from the arc. He had a career-high 24 points in the loss to Bellarmine and has also registered a career-best 13 assists in the victory over ULM on November 13, the most in a game for HCU since Mike Moss had 13 against Chicago State in 2011.
Johnson sits right behind Green from long range at 41.2%, and is third on the club in scoring (10.3) and rebounding (3.9). He set and tied his career-high for scoring in consecutive games, scoring 17 against ULM and CBS-Houston.
Demarco Bethea and
Ryan Bartley each had solid weeks for HCU. Bethea, returning to his neck of the woods, averaged 9.7 points on 72% shooting on the week, which included a career-best 14 points on 7-7 from the floor in the win over Citadel. After a slow start to the campaign,
Ryan Bartley posted double-digit scoring in all three games last week averaging 10.7 points and four boards to up his season output to 7.4 and 3.9.
The five-game road stretch, the longest of the 2025-26 campaign, hits the turn with HCU sitting at 4-3 overall and 1-2 on the trip. The Huskies will be facing a North Texas squad that improved to 6-2 on the season on Sunday as it held off Prairie View A&M 72-69 in Denton.
HCU and UNT have met 11 times overall but just three times since 1980. The Mean Green hold a 9-2 advantage in the all-time series, including a 62-46 victory in the Super Pit last season.
North Texas is led by Daniyal Robinson, now in his first season in Denton after spending the last three years at the helm of Cleveland State. The Mean Green are paced by 6'2 sophomore guard Je'Shawn Stevenson, who scores 17 points per game. 6'4 junior guard David Terrell Jr. averages 11.2 points and five assists, while 6'9 senior forward Dylan Arnett averages 8.2 points and a team-high 6.9 rebounds per game.
HCU is 7-16 all-time on December 2. The last outing came in a tough 65-56 loss at Rice while the most recent victory came in 2017, a 71-52 win over Texas State in Sharp Gymnasium.
Following the penultimate game of the five-game stretch away from Sharp, the road travels come to their conclusion this Saturday as Southland Conference play begins. The Huskies will travel to the Big Easy for their league opener when they face University of New Orleans at Lakefront Arena at 5 pm.
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