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LaDamien Bradford G 6-5 205 So. 3rd Year Jonesboro, La. (Texas A&M
1,000 CLUB
COBE GOT NEXT
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Since 2014, there have been nine Bulldogs to join the 1,000-point club, bringing the grand total to 43 for LA Tech. Cobe Williams is next in line to join that club.
No. Name Years Played Points
1. Mike Green 1969-73 2,340 2. Mike McConathy 1973-77 2,033 3. Alex Hamilton 2012-16 1,986 4. Randy White 1985-89 1,947 5. Anthony Dade 1988-92 1,867 6. Gerrod Henderson 1998-02 1,829 7. Raheem Appleby 2011-15 1,770 8. Karl Malone 1982-85 1,716 9. Paul Millsap 2003-06 1,708 10. Kyle Gibson 2006-10 1,677 11. Amorie Archibald 2017-22 1,632 12. L.V. Norris 1951-55 1,619 13. Lanky Wells 1973-77 1,608 14. Billy Wiggins 1952-56 1,566 15. Dave Simmons 1977-81 1,563 16. Antonio Meeking 1999-03 1,541 17. George Corley 1967-71 1,517 18. Jackie Moreland 1957-60 1,491 19. Erik McCree 2014-17 1,480 20. DaQuan Bracey 2016-20 1,477 21. Lonnie Cooper 1995-99 1,451 22. Victor King 1975-79 1,420 23. Jerry Hood 1961-65 1,403 24. Charlie Bishop 1966-70 1,398 25. Jacobi Boykins 2014-18 1,393 Ray Germany 1956-60 1,393 27. Robert Goldbolt 1983-87 1,386 28. Chester Coker 1951-55 1,334 29. Joe Abendroth 1960-64 1,298 30. Derek Smith 1977-00 1,241 31. P.J. Brown 1989-92 1,228 32. Willie Simmons 1981-85 1,202 33. Derric Jean 2015-20 1,188 34. Leon Barmore 1964-67 1,168 35. Wayne Smith 1982-86 1,149 36. Kenyon McNeail 2010-14 1,147 37. Jerry Lovett 1948-52 1,086 38. George Latham 1946-50 1,080 39. Cory Dean 2001-05 1,022 40. Ryan Bond 1993-96 1,014 41. Olu Ashaolu 2008-11 1,006 42. Alan Davis 1981-85 1,004 43. Cordarius Johnson 2010-14 1,003
Cobe Williams 2019-pres. 956
THE THE OPPONENTOPPONENT About the roadrunners
UTSA looks to flip a switch after the Christmas break as the Roadrunners have dropped three of their four December games, including a 7854 loss to North Texas in their C-USA opener.
UTSA is still looking for its first road win as they are 0-3 away from home. They have dropped road games at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, New Mexico, and Utah.
The Roadrunners, trying to improve on a 10win season (and a 3-15 C-USA record) from last year, return several players including their leading scorer in center Jacob Germany. The senior was a Conference USA Honorable Mention selection last season after averaging 15.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.
So far this season, Germany is averaging 11.7 points and 7.8 rebounds. The Roadrunners are currently led in scoring by newcomer Japhet Medor, a transfer from Hillsborough College, who is averaging 12.3 points per game. He has scored in double figures in four of the last five games, including a 23-point effort at Utah.
UTSA freshman DJ Richards has been named the C-USA Freshman of the Week twice. He did so in back-to-back weeks, first after posting a career-high 20 points at New Mexico and then by tallying 12 points in back-to-back games against Utah and Bethune-Cookman. He has made five starts and is averaging 9.4 points and 4.1 boards per contest.
Offensively, UTSA is one of the best teams in the conference at getting to the free throw line. They average 14.8 made free throws per game, which ranks third in C-USA and 69th nationally.
Defensively, the Roadrunners are the best team in the league at defending the three. Opponents are shooting just 29.3 percent from beyond the arc. Only five of their 12 opponents have been able to shoot over 30 percent from downtown this season and not a single one has been able to make double-digit three-pointers in a game.
SERIES HISTORY
Series record LA Tech, 16-6
In Ruston LA Tech, 8-2
In San Antonio LA Tech, 8-3
Neutral site UTSA, 1-0 Most LA Tech points 95 (Feb. 19, 2022) Most UTSA points 89 (Jan. 9, 2020) Biggest LA Tech win 74-49 (Feb. 7, 2013) Biggest UTSA win 89-73 (Jan. 9, 2020) Streak LA Tech, 4
HISTORY VERSUS UTSA
LA Tech and UTSA will meeet for the 23rd time on the hardwood Thursday. The two teams will face off again in San Antonio on Jan. 28.
1981-82 A LA Tech won, 63-57 1982-83 H LA Tech won, 58-48 2004-05 H LA Tech won, 73-64 A UTSA won, 79-71 2012-13 A LA Tech won ,73-71 H LA Tech won, 74-49 N UTSA won, 73-67 2013-14 A LA Tech won, 87-72 2014-15 A LA Tech won, 84-72 H LA Tech won, 76-66 2015-16 H LA Tech won, 85-75 A LA Tech won, 87-74 2016-17 H UTSA won, 69-68 A LA Tech won 72-66 2017-18 H UTSA won, 78-76 A UTSA won, 74-64 2018-19 H LA Tech won, 72-67 2019-20 A UTSA won, 89-73 2020-21 H LA Tech won, 77-66 A LA Tech won, 82-66 2021-22 A LA Tech won, 79-63 H LA Tech won, 95-71
The two squads have been conference foes for the last 10 seasons. In 2012-13, LA Tech and UTSA were both members of the WAC. They both then left to join C-USA.
LA Tech jumped all over UTSA in their last meeting, going up 21-3 in route to their second largest win ever over UTSA, 95-71. Keaston Willis was on fire, scoring a season-high 30 points while sinking a career-high eight three-pointers, the third most ever in a single game in program history. LA Tech made 13 threes in the victory.
STATS COMPARISON
Category LA Tech UTSA Points Per Game 77.6 69.0 Opp. Points Per Game 68.2 71.6 Scoring Margin +9.4 -2.6 Field Goal Pct. 46% 41% Opp. Field Goal Pct. 43% 42% 3-Point Pct. 34% 34% Opp. 3-Point Pct. 34% 29% Free Throw Pct. 74% 73% FTs Made Per Game 13.3 14.8 Rebounds Per Game 36.5 36.6 Rebounding Margin +4.4 -1.3 Assists Per Game 15.1 11.9 Turnovers Per Game 15.7 13.9 Turnover Margin +3.0 -2.8 A/TO Ratio 1.0 0.9 Blocks Per Game 2.5 3.1 Steals Per Game 9.2 4.1
ACTIVE LEADERS
POINTs
Cobe Williams Junior Isaiah Crawford Junior
956 680 Keaston Willis Junior 554 David Green Sophomore 282 Kenny Hunter Sophomore 208 LaDamien Bradford Sophomore 123 Kaleb Stewart Sophomore 111 Terran Williams Sophomore 105 Dravon Mangum R-Senior 80 Jordan Crawford Freshman 73 Quandre Bullock Junior 58 Will Allen R-Freshman 41 Pierre Geneste, Jr. Freshman 17 Ben Ponder Sophomore 17
REBOUNDs
Cobe Williams Junior Isaiah Crawford Junior
310 305 Keaston Willis Junior 161 Kenny Hunter Sophomore 161 David Green Sophomore 118 LaDamien Bradford Sophomore 104 Terran Williams Sophomore 42 Quandre Bullock Junior 37 Jordan Crawford Freshman 31 Will Allen R-Freshman 33 Dravon Mangum R-Senior 32 Kaleb Stewart Sophomore 18 Pierre Geneste, Jr. Freshman 12 Ben Ponder Sophomore 4
ASSISts
Cobe Williams Junior Isaiah Crawford Junior
261 114 Keaston Willis Junior 61 LaDamien Bradford Sophomore 60 Jordan Crawford Freshman 56 Kaleb Stewart Sophomore 25 David Green Sophomore 17 Quandre Bullock Junior 9 Kenny Hunter Sophomore 8 Terran Williams Sophomore 8 Dravon Mangum R-Senior 6
BLOCKs
Isaiah Crawford Junior 32 Kenny Hunter Sophomore 26 Cobe Williams Junior 14 David Green Sophomore 10 Keaston Willis Junior 9 Quandre Bullock Junior 6 LaDamien Bradford Sophomore 3 Pierre Geneste, Jr. Freshman 2 Will Allen R-Freshman 1 Terran Williams Sophomore 1 Dravon Mangum R-Senior 1
STEALs
Cobe Williams Junior Isaiah Crawford Junior
121 81 Keaston Willis Junior 38 LaDamien Bradford Sophomore 29 Jordan Crawford Freshman 22 David Green Sophomore 18 Kaleb Stewart Sophomore 10 Kenny Hunter Sophomore 9 Quandre Bullock Junior 6 Will Allen R-Freshman 5 Dravon Mangum R-Senior 3 Terran Williams Sophomore 3
2022-23 TRENDS
RECORD BREAKDOWn
At Home On The Road Neutral Site White Uniforms Blue Uniforms Red Uniforms Columbia Blue Uniforms 4-1 2-4 1-0 4-0 2-4 1-1 0-0
HALFTIME/LEADS/ot
Leading at the half Tied at the half 6-2 0-0
Trailing at the half Decided by 5 points or fewer Decided by 6-10 points Decided by 10+ points Leading/Tied with 10:00 left Trailing with 10:00 left Leading/Tied with 5:00 left Trailing with 5:00 left Overtime games 1-3 2-2 0-2 5-1 7-1 0-4 7-1 0-4 0-1
OFFENSe
Scoring less than 70 points Scoring 70-79 points 0-3 4-1
Scoring 80-89 points 1-1
Scoring 90+ points Shooting 50% or higher 2-0 2-1
Shooting 40-49%
5-2 Shooting less than 40% 0-2 Shooting 40% or higher threes 2-1 Shooting 30-39% threes 5-1 Shooting less than 30% threes 0-3 Opp. shooting 50% or higher 0-4 Opp. shooting 40-49% 3-1 Opp. shooting less than 40% 4-0 Opp. shooting 40%+ threes 2-2 Opp. shooting 30-39% threes 2-3 Opp. shooting less than 30% threes 3-0 Attempts 30 or more threes 3-0 Attempts 20-29 threes 4-4 Attempts less than 20 threes 0-1 Shooting 80% or higher FTs 2-2 Shooting 70-79% FTs 1-1 Shooting less than 70% FTs 4-2
BOARDS/TURNOVERs
Outrebounding opponent Outrebounded 6-1 1-4
Rebounds are even 0-0
Forcing 15+ turnovers Forcing less than 15 turnovers
6-3 1-2 Committing 15+ turnovers 4-3 Committing less than 15 turnovers 3-2
ASSISTS/STEALS/BLOCKs
More assists than opponent 7-0 Same/Fewer assists as opponent 0-5 More steals than opponent 4-4 Same/Fewer steals as opponent 3-1 More blocks than opponent 3-1 Same/Fewer blocks as opponent 4-4
STANDOUT GAMES
GAMES AS LEADING SCOREr
2022-23 Career
Cobe Williams 5 14 Keaston Willis 2 9 Dravon Mangum 2 2 Isaiah Crawford 1 9 David Green 1 4 Terran Williams 1 1
DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORINg
2022-23 Career
Cobe Williams 8 39 Keaston Willis 8 30 Isaiah Crawford 6 33 Terran Williams 3 5 Dravon Mangum 3 3 Kenny Hunter 2 4 Quandre Bullock 2 2 Jordan Crawford 2 2 David Green 1 7
20-POINT SCORINg
2022-23 Career
Cobe Williams 3 5 Isaiah Crawford 2 5 Keaston Willis 1 5 David Green 1 2 Dravon Mangum 1 1 Terran Williams 1 1
4+ THREE-POINTERs
2022-23 Career
Keaston Willis 3 13 Cobe Williams 1 4 David Green 1 2 Dravon Mangum 1 1 Terran Williams 1 1
GAMES AS LEADING REBOUNDer
2022-23 Career
Isaiah Crawford 4 12 Keaston Willis 3 6 David Green 1 3 Quandre Bullock 2 2 Dravon Mangum 1 1 Will Allen 1 1
5+ ASSISTs
2022-23 Career
Jordan Crawford 6 6 Cobe Williams 3 13 Isaiah Crawford 1 3 LaDamien Bradford 1 2 Keaston Willis 1 1
3+ STEALs
2022-23 Career
Cobe Williams 5 18 Isaiah Crawford 4 9 Jordan Crawford 3 3 Will Allen 1 1
3+ BLOCks
2022-23 Career
Quandre Bullock 1 1