ULM invited Sun Belt Conference leaders North Texas in to town on last Thursday. The Warhawks got off to a shaky start after being dismantled early by North Texas guard Tristan Thompson, who’s 5-6 3-point shooting night helped him finished with a game-high 30 points.
ULM’s Gilbert tied with the team high with forward Tommy Sykes both tallying 15 points. ULM went into the break, down 34-28. North Texas came out hot after the break scoring of five of its first six field goal attempts to push their lead to 14. ULM would never fully recover only narrowing their margin to seven before losing composure towards the end of the game losing 79-62.
The Warhawks then traveled down south, to Lafayette to battle the Ragin’ Cajuns in the Cajun Dome on Saturday. ULM had a great shooting night, shooting 49.2 from the field while connecting on 8-13 3-pointers but, it was the charity strip that proved to be unkind to the Warhawks, shooting a season worst 7-16 from the line. Despite their great shooting and a strong showing from Forward Tommie Sykes, whose team-high 21 points and seven rebounds, the Warhawks fell 84- 75.
Freshman guard Marcelis Hanberry had his coming out party with a career high 15 off the bench `Junior Fred Brown fouled out with eleven minutes to play in the second half. After this past weekend’s two losses the Warhawks are only 6-15 for the season and last in the Sunbelt with a 1-6 record in conference play. ULM will try and right the ship Thursday January, 27 as they take on Arkansas State on the road.
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