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.
With another road loss Saturday afternoon, the Texas State men’s basketball team is 1-2 in the Southland Conference with two home games coming up this week.
In its first league road test after running a five-game winning streak at Strahan Coliseum, the Texas State men’s basketball team absorbed a brutal beating, 89-64, Wednesday night at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Opening its Southland Conference schedule at 4 p.m. Saturday against Texas-Arlington at Strahan Coliseum, the Texas State men’s basketball team has won four straight, kept six opponents to fewer than 70 points and ranks third nationally by scoring 90.4 points per game.
