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THE GAME
The No. 11-ranked Tarleton Texans (7-0) return to the court following a 13-day layoff to host the McMurry War Hawks (4-3) at Wisdom Gym this Tuesday, Dec. 17. Tip-off between the two teams is set for 8 p.m.
 
Covering the Game
Tarleton State Basketball will be broadcast live on KSTV (93.1 FM) throughout the season. Casey Hogan will have the call with Mike Young joining him for color commentary. The games can also be found online at www.kstvfm.com for Saturday's contest.
 
A live video feed will be available as well by logging onto TarletonSports.com and clicking the "Live Video" link at the top of the page. Live stats will be provided and can also be found online at TarletonSports.com.
 
Series Information
The Texans and War Hawks are meeting for the 55th time in a series which McMurry leads, 39-15. The two teams met in Stephenville last season for the first time in 16 years, with Tarleton picking up a 65-52 win over the War Hawks.
 
The Texans are 9-3 against McMurry under the direction of head coach Lonn Reisman and have won five straight games dating back to 1992. The last win for McMurry was a 52-51 victory over the Texans in Abilene. Reisman is 7-0 all-time when facing the War Hawks in Stephenville.
 
Last Meeting
Jon Cathey-Macklin recorded a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Chuck Guy (12), De'Andre Upchurch (12) and Damion Clemons (11) poured in double-digit efforts as Tarleton downed the War Hawks 65-52 back on Jan. 30, 2013, in Stephenville.
 
McMurry's Takoby Jackson scored a game-high 21 points, but it wasn't enough as the Texans scored 17 points off of 12 McMurry turnovers, out-rebounded the War Hawks 34-29 and out-shot the visiting team 45.8% to 39.6%.
 
Tarleton led by just two points at the break, up 31-29, but then outscored McMurry 34-23 over the final 20 minutes to secure the victory.
 
Scouting the War Hawks
McMurry is coming off a pair of losses after falling 83-56 to Incarnate Word this past Saturday and 68-55 to Angelo State back on Dec. 3. Both losses came on the road as McMurry is just 1-2 away from Abilene this season.
 
Brandon Golden leads the War Hawks in scoring with 13.6 points per game and in rebounding with 7.6 boards per contest. His five blocks are a team-high as well. Kourtney Goff is second in scoring with 12.6 points per game, but leads the team with 30 assists and nine steals on the season.
 
McMurry is shooting .428 from the field, which ranks 10th in the Heartland Conference. The War Hawks' 71.4 points per game average ranks 10th in the conference as well, while its .366 three-point percentage ranks sixth in the league.
 
Last Time out for Texans
The Texans have not played since downing Oklahoma Panhandle State 90-35 back on Dec. 4, in Stephenville. Tarleton shot 49.2 percent from the field and held the Aggies to just a 24.1 percent effort, that also included a 15.8 percent effort from the three-point arc.
 
Mohammed Lee scored a career-high 23 points and shot 80 percent from the field on his way to being named the LSC Offensive Player of the Week. Chuck Guy poured in 17 points and Davene Carter pulled down 11 boards.
 
The Texans made 13-of-32 three-pointers, dished out 21 assists and recorded just seven turnovers on the night as well.
 
Texans in the NABC Poll
The Texans moved up to No. 11 in last weeks NABC Top-25 Poll, jumping ahead three spots from its previous No. 14 ranking.
 
The Texans have been ranked inside the NABC Top-25 72 different weeks since making its first-ever appearance in the poll back on Dec. 17, 2002. Including this week, Tarleton has had a top-15 ranking in 56 of those 72 weeks.
 
Reisman's Hunt for 550
Head coach Lonn Reisman has 537 career wins heading into this week. Reisman, who is in his 26th season with the Texans, needs just 13 more victories to earn his 550th career win. He would become just the 26th overall and ninth active NCAA Division II head coach to earn 550 wins. He would be the 83rd coach (D-I and D-II) to achieve the feat.
 
Reisman picked up victory No. 500 back on Jan. 21, 2012 when Tarleton defeated A&M-Commerce 78-53 in Stephenville.
 
Home Sweet Home
The Texans are on a current 14-game home winning streak that dates back to Jan. 2, 2013. The 14-game home win streak currently ranks tied for the fifth longest in school history. Tarleton's longest home win streak was a 33-game win streak that began on Jan. 22, 2005 and ran through Jan. 27, 2007.
 
The Texans are 351-64 (.846) overall inside Wisdom Gym under head coach Lonn Reisman.
 
Start me Up
Tarleton is 7-0 to start the season for the first time in school history, since becoming a senior college in 1961. The Texans have had two 6-0 starts under Reisman, but this marks the first season under his direction that the squad has jumped out to a seven-game win streak to begin a regular-season campaign.
 
Countdown to 1,000
Tarleton senior Chuck Guy is 418 points away from scoring his 1,000th career point. Guy poured in 462 points for the Texans last season and so far has recorded 120 points for a total of 582 career points.
 
If Guy scores his season average of 17.7 points per game, he would break the mark in 24 games. With just 19 regular season games remaining, he would have to average 22.0 ppg down the stretch to achieve the feat in the final game of the season.
 
Should he net 1,000 points, Guy would be the 16th career Texan to score at least 1,000 points in his career. The last Texan to achieve the mark was John Davis, who finished his career with 1,041 points back in 2007.
 
How They rank
The Texans are just one of 26 teams left in the nation to have a winning percentage of 1.000. Tarleton also ranks first nationally in scoring defense (53.0), scoring margin (+43.6) and field goal percentage-defense (.341).
 
The Texans rank among the top-five teams in the nation in five other statistical categories, including: scoring offense (4th, 96.6), field goal percentage (5th, .541), three-point percentage (3rd, .232), rebound margin (4th, +14.9) and turnover margin (-7.7).
 
Chuck Guy, who ranks first in the LSC in assists, currently ranks eighth in the nation with 6.7 assists per game.
 
Up next for the Texans
Tarleton will hit the road for the first time this season as the team travels to Las Vegas, Nev., to participate in the South Point Hotel Holiday Hoops Classic. The Texans will play Central Washington on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 1 p.m. (CST) before closing out the tournament against No. 5-ranked Western Washington on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. (CST).
 
Tarleton will then break for the Holidays and then return to the court on Jan. 4, in a home contest against South Dakota Mines.