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NIT game relocated due to faculty lunch scheduling conflict
By Paul Harvey
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NIT action is taking place with the quarterfinal matchups coming across Tuesday night and Wednesday night. That included a matchup between North Texas and Oklahoma State, though that game had to be relocated for an unusual reason.
As the higher-seeded team, North Texas was slated to host that quarterfinal matchup vs. the Cowboys. However, North Texas had a scheduling conflict with the home venue, known as The Super Pit, already booked for a staff appreciation lunch on Wednesday that required the removal of the court. A dance/drill team competition followed that lunch on Friday.
That’s quite the reasoning behind playing a potential home game at a different arena, but it’s what led to the Mean Green facing Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
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“We worked with campus to explore alternative venues but, for a number of reasons, weren’t able to find another suitable venue for so many attendees,” UNT athletic director Jared Mosley told the Denton Record-Chronicle. “There is no guarantee even if the staff appreciation luncheon could have been moved that we would have been selected to host due to other planning the NIT does and not knowing if television would have slotted our game for Tuesday or Wednesday.”
The good news, at least in terms of North Texas? It did not derail the season with the Mean Green pulling out a dramatic 61-59 win on the road to advance to the NIT semifinals. Atin Wright led UNT with 15 points while Jasper Floyd and Brenen Lorient added 10 points each.
Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.
