Lion men play 8th seed Cowboys on Sunday evening

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By East DFW News reports

Mar 15, 2023

Lion men play 8th seed Cowboys on Sunday evening

The Texas A&M University-Commerce men's basketball team begins its postseason run on Sunday evening in the first round of the Southland Conference Tournament against the eighth seed and hosts McNeese.

WHO: A&M-Commerce at McNeese
WHERE: Lake Charles, La. | Legacy Center
WHEN: Sunday, March 5 | 5 p.m.
RECORDS: A&M-Commerce is 13-19 overall and the fifth seed in the conference tournament, while McNeese is the eighth seed with an overall record of 9-22.
THE BRACKET: The winner of Sunday's game advances to play Nicholls on Monday at 5 p.m.

LIVE AUDIO: Lion Sports Network – KETR 88.9 FM, Commerce (http://www.ketr.org)
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+ | https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/eb8fe93c-dd74-49ce-80a6-6f704b4c9294
LIVE STATS: http://statb.us/b/458276
TICKETS: LionAthletics.com/SLCTix
GAME NOTES: TAMUC | MCN

ANOTHER STELLAR CONFERENCE SEASON
• A&M-Commerce finished Southland Conference play with a record of 9-9.
• The Lions have never had a losing record in conference games under sixth-year coach Jaret von Rosenberg, who has led the Lions to three NCAA Tournament appearances.

SERIES HISTORY AGAINST THE COWBOYS
• The Lions won both regular season contests over the Cowboys, though both games were decided by two points each and the game in Lake Charles on January 7 went into overtime.
• The two teams are now 8-8 in the all-time series.
• Nine of the last 11 meetings between the two teams have come in Lake Charles.

VON ROSENBERG PICKS UP WIN NO. 100
• With the win over Nicholls last week, coach Jaret von Rosenberg collected career win No. 100.
• He is the sixth coach in program history to achieve that feat.

DEMONIA JOINS RARE COMPANY
• For the third straight season, Demarcus Demonia has earned all-conference honors after being named to second team all-Southland on Friday.
• He is the first three-team all-conference selection in program history under von Rosenberg.

ROBERTS PLAYS HERO ONCE AGAIN
• C.J. Roberts drilled a game-winner at Nicholls at the Colonels, which was the second time he hit a last-second game winner.
• He also hit a layup in the final seconds against Houston Christian.
• He is shooting 89.7 percent at the free throw line this season, which leads the conference.

ROBERTS AND DEMONIA MAKE SC TOP 10
• Roberts' game-winner appeared at No. 9 on last Monday's Sportcenter Top 10 plays, while Demarcus Demonia's game-tying alley oop dunk appeared at No. 3.
• Based on our research, this is the first occurence this season that the same team had two plays featured on the same night.

HISTORIC STRETCH FOR THE LIONS
• On their last road trip of the regular season, the Lions picked up a road wins at the defending conference champion, Nicholls and defending conference tournament champion, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and took the Islanders to overtime in the season finale at home.

NEVER COUNT OUT THESE LIONS
• A&M-Commerce has fought back from 10-point deficits in eight games against Division I opponents this season to either tie the game or make it a one-possession game.
• Of the seven comebacks, they went on to win
four of those games.