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The 2020–21 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team represented the
University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public university, public research university located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its main campus is in Denton, Texas, Denton, with a satellite campus in Frisco, Texas, Frisco. It serves as the ...
during the
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. The team was led by fifth-year head coach
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, and played their home games at
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in
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as a member of the West division of
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. In a season limited due to the ongoing
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, they finished the season 18–10, 9–5 to finish in third place in the division. They defeated
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, Old Dominion,
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, and
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to win the C-USA tournament championship. As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 13 seed in the South region. There they upset No. 4-seeded
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in the first round for the school’s first ever NCAA tournament victory, before losing to No. 5-seeded Villanova in the second round.


Previous season

The Mean Green finished the 2019–20 season 20–11, 14–4 in C-USA play to finish to win the regular season championship. Before postseason play could begin, the C-USA tournament and other postseason tournaments were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Roster


Schedule and results

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See also

* 2020–21 North Texas Mean Green women's basketball team


Notes


References

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