UAB beat North Texas 64-61: occupies 2nd place in the AAC standings -Alabama’s News Leader

In the race for the first round of the first round in the AAC tournament, each game is valuable, especially home matches. This made UAB a 64-61 victory over northern Texas extremely important.

Yaxel Lendborg, saddened with unpleasant problems in the first half and lingered to four points, scored 13 in the second half, including two large free throws with nine seconds, and Blazers (15-8, 8-2) received second place in AAC ranking, half a game behind the front runner Memphis.

Lendborg finished with 17 points and 13 rebounds, gathering his 34th double double from his career. Christian Coleman scored 13.

“This team is capable of winning a championship again by making March madness,” Lendburg told the ABC 33/40 by Johnny Congdon after the match. “I feel like we are 100 percent ready to do it and we will turn the table right now.”

Lendburg comes out a week in which he struggles through illness but still won the Aac Player of the Week’s honors after an average of 25.0 points, 13.5 rebound And Charlotte.

“I don’t know anything about the ceiling,” Landborg said. “I just know you don’t put a limit on what you have and your ability. I hope I can just play basketball while I can have as high a ceiling as I can go.”

After playing three games in seven days and went 3-0 to this section, Blazers have some time before they reorient themselves in the AAC competition and play on February 11 in East Carolina.