By james art 
Thibodaux, la. – For the third time in the New Year, the men’s basketball team at Nicolls State University will make a trip to Lone Star with games against Texas A & M-Corpus Christi (January 25) and UTRGV (January 27).
Both competitions will be submitted to ESPN+. The game on Saturday opposite the islands will start at 15:30, and the match on Monday is set at 6:30 pm.
Nichols and AMCC split the series last year, both won at home, but the colonels made the last match with 81-73 overtime in the SLC semifinals. Michael Gray, Jr. He shines in the victory, scoring a 23 -point game to drive Nicolls to the title.
Gray is one of the four colonels, average double figures in the road games this season, helping Nicolls up to five victories outside Tibodo. He and Robert Brown III were deadly outside in the 10 competitions along the way, combining to demolish 56 triplets to 46 percent. Brown and Byron Ireland He led the crime with over 13 points per game in guest games.
ISLANDERS (13-7, 6-2 SLC) go out of HCU loss by dropping them 2.0 matches from McNeese, but still second. Nicholls (11-8, 5-3 SLC) is a third-team lodge, tied to 5-3.
AMCC is led by Gary Clark, who was walking double-spirit in a league game. An average of 14.3 points and 10.1 rebounds, Clark has four double pairs in the eight SLC matches and there was another outing, in which he finished bounce shy from the fifth.
UTRGV (12-7, 4-4 SLC) is in its first year in the southern part and will be facing Nicholls for the first time from the loss of high rated 111-106 for the colonels in 2017. Nicolls’s chief coach. Tevon Saddler A submission for red and gray this season and scored 19 points in the victory.
Vaqueros won their last trip to UIW, 85-78 and will host Mcnese on Saturday. UTRGV includes one of the best three-point shooters in the league, Cliff Davis, who knocked 61 threes with 37 percent.