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BELTON — By halftime, it already had the makings of being a memorable night for Maurice Pinnock. And once the second half got going on Tuesday night, UMHB’s senior guard only advanced that storyline, filling up the stat sheet with a career-high 32 points and a perfect 7-of-7 mark from 3-point range.
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AUSTIN — In each of the last two seasons, UMHB men’s basketball came up just short of victory inside the Concordia Fieldhouse. But The Cru changed that on Thursday night.
After an exceptional career at UMHB, where he left as the program’s all-time leading scorer and the first three-time All-American since Robert Moore in 2002, Josiah Johnson’s first three games as a pro have been nothing short of spectacular.
With the 2024-25 men’s basketball season quickly approaching, UMHB released its slate for the upcoming year on Tuesday, highlighted by four games against teams that won 20+ games in 2023-24 and a high-level non-conference schedule.
BELTON, Texas—Josiah Johnson is ready for the next stage of his basketball career. It was basketball, and his innate scoring ability, that took him from Big Sandy, Texas (pop. 1,286) to Belton four years ago, after a brief stint at Southern Nazarene University. And now, coming off a collegiate career in which he rewrote the […]
UMHB head men’s basketball coach Clif Carroll is not afraid to test his squad right out of the gate. That has been true in past seasons, and will remain true again in 2024-25, as UMHB faces the reigning national champions on the road on November 8.
ABILENE, Texas–In the span of 6.5 seconds, the UMHB men’s basketball team went from holding a one-point lead to standing stunned on the court at Hardin-Simmons University moments after a 78-77 defeat.
ABILENE, Texas–Facing Hardin-Simmons for the second time in six days with a spot in the ASC championship game on the line, the UMHB men’s basketball team saw its 10-point halftime lead vanish within the first six minutes of the second half.
Photo by Luke Zayas/True To The Cru BELTON–The matchups between ETBU and UMHB, especially over the last two years, have been anchored in intensity. Even more so in the postseason, when the alternative to winning is ending the season right then and there. In an ASC quarterfinal duel on Tuesday night, the league’s two preseason […]