{"id":13196,"date":"2025-10-19T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13196\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:35:13","slug":"master-ps-uno-sees-transfers-shine-in-exhibition-game-uno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13196\/","title":{"rendered":"Master P’s UNO sees transfers shine in exhibition game | Uno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Percy “Master P” Miller continued his mission to build buzz around the U<\/a>NO\u00a0men’s basketball program, which got its first opportunity to play in front of fans during a Saturday exhibition game at Lakefront Arena.<\/p>\n

Miller, who is in his first year as the UNO president of basketball operations, scheduled an exhibition matchup against a Sacramento State program that also has a first-year leader in general manager Shaquille O\u2019Neal. The two teams fought to a tie at the half, but UNO pulled away in the second half for an 89-76 win.<\/p>\n

The contest featured new in-game entertainment along with a halftime performance from the St. Augustine Marching 100 band and hip-hop artist T99zy. UNO entertained the crowd on the court with several dunks and 3-pointers with a roster featuring 13 new players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was a lot of excitement in our group,\u201d UNO coach Stacy Hollowell said. \u201cGot to give credit to Sacramento State, they got out and were disruptive on the perimeter, but I like what we did. A lot of guys contributed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller, who now goes by \u201cCoach P,\u201d has made an effort to bring added entertainment during games at Lakefront Arena and recently helped install a jumbotron scoreboard that was on full display Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though we\u2019re a college organization, the game has changed,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWe had to bring some entertainment in here, bring some other things to the atmosphere to play good basketball. I just loved how we prepared to deal with this. These coaches and players have been in the community, and the community is coming out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Southeastern transfer Jakevion Buckley started at point guard for UNO and finished with 25 points on 7-of-11 shooting along with three rebounds and eight assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been great (at UNO),\u201d Buckley said. \u201cIt\u2019s everything I expected it to be. Just trying to keep the main thing the main thing and just play basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buckley got to the free-throw line consistently, making 10 of 14. UNO shot 82.1% from the free-throw line and 46.8% from the field.<\/p>\n

Texas State transfer Coleton Benson also started at guard and scored 14 points while shooting 4 of 9 from 3-point range. Forward MJ Thomas shined off the bench with 17 points, shooting 5 of 5 from the field and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a nice mix of skilled guard play, bigger guys that can play on the perimeter and some guys inside that can really contribute,\u201d Hollowell said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got some depth, and we\u2019ll just continue to grow into that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forward Will Patterson and guard TJ Cope also contributed off the bench with eight points each. The rest of UNO\u2019s starting five consisted of center Churchill Abass, forward Enzo Boudouma and forward Eze Nwakamma.<\/p>\n

Sacramento State forward Jeremiah Cherry led his team with 23 points on 11-of-21 shooting. Shaq\u2019s son, Shaqir O\u2019Neal, entered the game off the bench and scored four points.<\/p>\n

UNO opens the 2025-26 regular season at 7 p.m. on Nov. 3 on the road against TCU. UNO\u2019s home opener is at 3 p.m. Nov. 8 against Southern University of New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Percy “Master P” Miller continued his mission to build buzz around the UNO\u00a0men’s basketball program, which got its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[11970,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-13196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-hardwall","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}