University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Men's Basketball Faces Brevard Tuesday Night
11.12.2007 | Men's Basketball
ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? The UNC Asheville men's basketball team hopes to extend the best start of a season in 18 years when the Bulldogs host Brevard College at Justice Center Tuesday night starting at 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast by WISE (1310-AM) and can be seen for via video-streaming at www.uncabulldogs.com or www.bigsouthsports.com.
UNC Asheville is 2-0 on the season and is looking to go 3-0 for the first time since the 1989-90 campaign. Asheville opened the season Friday night with a hard-fought 78-75 victory over Furman at Justice Center and then used a strong second half to pull away from Lees-McRae on Sunday, 74-48. The Bulldogs played much of the game without their starting backcourt as senior guard K.J. Garland missed the game with a thumb injury, while senior guard Bryan Smithson hurt his hand midway through the first half and did not return.
“We did a good job in the second half in all facets of the game,” commented Biedenbach. “The line-up we had in to start the second half is not the line-up I thought we would be using. However, our guys really played hard and battled on both ends of the floor. We weren't perfect with turnovers and gave up a lot of offensive rebounds but I liked the way we fought and scrapped.”
The Tornados went 9-18 last year but should be much better this season.
“I've always respected the great job that Mike Jones (Brevard's head coach) does every year, and we'll have a serious challenge from them Tuesday night,” stated Biedenbach. “They (Brevard) were a young team last season and played us pretty tough. We're going to have to play well for 40 minutes to beat them.”
BULLDOGS NOTES ? UNC Asheville went 3-0 to start the 1989-90 season by defeating Voorhees, King College and VMI...the Bulldogs are shooting 53 percent (51-of-96) from the field and 50 percent from the three-point line (13-of-26)...Asheville has recorded 25 blocked shots in two games to just one for its opponents...Bulldogs have won six of their last seven games dating back to last season...UNC Asheville leads the series with Brevard, 4-0 but the Tornados did win an exhibition game against the Dogs on Nov. 11, 2004, 71-68.
