{"id":530183,"date":"2026-03-10T03:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:33:09","slug":"uno-basketball-season-ends-in-southland-quarterfinals-uno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530183\/","title":{"rendered":"UNO basketball season ends in Southland quarterfinals | Uno"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNO<\/a> saw its season come to an end in the Southland Conference Tournament quarterfinals against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Monday.<\/p>\n

After trailing by as much as 16 points in the first half, UNO was up by two with 13:06 to go in the game after a Coleton Benson 3-pointer. But Texas A&M-Corpus Christi got the lead back less than one minute later and led the rest of the way in a 74-61 win at Townsley Law Arena in Lake Charles.<\/p>\n

No. 5-seeded UNO finishes with a 15-18 record, an 11-win improvement from last season. The Privateers defeated No. 8-seeded Houston Christian on Sunday but couldn\u2019t get past No. 4-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n

“(Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi’s) physicality was disruptive,” UNO coach Stacy Hollowell said. “We made a nice little run but just ran out of gas.”<\/p>\n

Guard Daniel Michelini-Jackson scored a career-high 28 points for the Islanders, shooting 10 of 12 from the field and making all five of his 3-point attempts. He also led the Islanders (18-14) in rebounding with eight.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi outrebounded UNO 41-29, a stark contrast from Sunday when UNO outrebounded HCU by double digits. Forward MJ Thomas was the only UNO player to record more than six rebounds.<\/p>\n

Thomas had a double-double for the second night in a row, finishing with 14 rebounds and tied Benson as UNO\u2019s top scorer with 17 points. Benson made a team-high three 3-pointers against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi but shot just 5 of 13 from the field.<\/p>\n

Guard Jakevion Buckley was UNO\u2019s second-leading scorer on the year but was held to just two points on Monday. Guard TJ Cope scored 14 points on 7-of-13 shooting, and center Churchill Abass had eight points with six rebounds.<\/p>\n

Monday was the third meeting between UNO and\u00a0Texas A&M-Corpus Christi this year. The teams split in the regular season, which included an 84-78 UNO overtime win on Feb. 9 at Lakefront Arena.<\/p>\n

UNO’s 11-win increase from last season was among the best in the nation<\/a>. Hollowell was in his second season as head coach alongside first-year president of basketball operations Percy “Master P” Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You can’t feel terrible about that (11-win increase),” Hollowell said. “You can see that there’s improvement. We’ve got the bones of a good program.”<\/p>\n

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will face No. 1-seeded Stephen F. Austin in the first Southland semifinal matchup at 6 p.m. Tuesday, with the winner advancing to Wednesday\u2019s championship game.<\/p>\n

The Southland championship game is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday. The winner advances to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNO saw its season come to an end in the Southland Conference Tournament quarterfinals against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,3294,85],"class_list":["post-530183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-hardwall","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}