Doug Davalos enters his fourth year as the men’s basketball coach at Texas State looking for his first winning season. That quest will begin Friday night (7 p.m.), when the Bobcats open their 2009-10 season at Strahan Coliseum against Howard Payne.
The underdog Texas State men’s basketball team took an eight-point halftime lead against Nicholls State in the first round of the Southland Conference Tournament Thursday in Katy, but Nicholls State rallied at the free throw line and ended the Bobcats’ season.
Based on the Southland Conference’s published criteria for determining which teams go to the Southland Conference basketball tournament, the Texas State men’s team qualified Wednesday night with an 80-66 thrashing of Texas-San Antonio at Strahan Coliseum.
With three games left in the Southland Conference season, both Texas State basketball teams are fighting for those final bids to the league tournament next month. The men’s team lost at league leading Stephen F. Austin Wednesday, while the women’s team beat SFA at Strahan Coliseum.
The Texas State men’s and women’s basketball teams each are one-half game out of position to qualify for the Southland Conference Tournament after the women won Wednesday night in Corpus Christi while the men lost at home to Texas-A&M Corpus Christi.
Texas State’s women’s basketball team snapped a five-game losing streak with a win Saturday afternoon against McNeese State, but remains out of playoff position. Meanwhile, the men’s team lost at McNeese State and is hanging on tight.
The Texas State men’s basketball team built a 15-point lead late in the second half and clung to it in the final seconds for an 84-82 win against Southeastern Louisiana Wednesday night at Strahan Coliseum, jumping back into the Southland Conference Tournament picture.
The Texas State men’s basketball team moved back into conference playoff contention with a win Saturday at Texas-Arlington, its first road win of the season. Meanwhile, the women’s team lost its fourth straight game and fell two games out of conference tournament position.
The men’s and women’s basketball teams at Texas State are on a combined eight-game losing streak entering Saturday’s games against Texas-Arlington.
The Texas State women’s basketball team blew a 17-point lead to lose at home Wednesday night to Texas-San Antonio, while the men’s team dug itself an even deeper hole with an 86-76 loss at UTSA. The Texas State men now have lost five straight games.
