The Lions, fresh off of their 87-71 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville, will return to the Field House for their Lone Star Conference home opener against Cameron Wednesday with tipoff set for 7:30 p.m.
Fast-break Points About A&M-Commerce
- The Lions are coming off of an 87-71 win on the road at Kingsville ... Darrell Williams scored his second straight 20-point scoring game with 26 points ... LaDon Carnegie followed with 24 points.
- Darrell Williams has notched back-to-back-to-back double-doubles after adding 13 rebounds to go along with his 26 points at Kingsville ... He leads the team and the LSC with 10 double-doubles on the season.
- Darrell Williams has grabbed 15 plus rebounds in five games this season and 20 plus rebounds twice during the year ... He is one of only two NCAA DII players with two 20-reboudn games.
- A&M-Commerce fell 104-101 at Dallas Baptist in overtime on November 24 ... The Lions were 50-of-65 from the free throw line ... Both were school records while the 50 makes tied the highest mark in the LSC ... LaDon Carnegie was 18-of-23 setting a new school record for makes and attempts.
- The Lions are the NCAA's leader defensive rebounds, sixth in FTs made and eighth in FTs attempted ... The Lions are sixth FG percentage defense holding opponents to 38.3 percent.
-A&M-Commerce has had an LSC Player of the Week in each of the first four weeks of the season ... Darrell Williams has won one offensive POTW and two straight defensive POTW awards ... LaDon Carnegie was named offensive of POTW once ... Williams followed with his second offensive player of the week on January 12.
- Carnegie leads the LSC in scoring at 18.5 points per game, while Williams leads the league in rebounds, 12.4 rebounds per game, and is second in scoring at 17.9 points per game ... He is the only player averaging a double-double in the LSC ... Williams is ranked third in the NCAA in double-doubles with 10 ... Williams is also third in the NCAA in rebounds per game, fourth in total rebounds and tenth in defensive rebounds per game.
- The Lions are coached by Sam Walker ... Walker is in his 15th season with A&M-Commerce and is the school's all-time winningest coach with an overall of 236-175 ... He has complied a 95-89 record in LSC games.
A&M-Commerce vs. Cameron: The Series
- The Lions and Aggies have met 45 times prior to Wednesday's contest with A&M-Commerce holding a 25-20 advantage in the all-time series ... The two teams have also met 28 times in LSC games with Cameron holding a 13-15 advantage.
- The Lions won the last meeting, 89-79, on February 5 in the Field House ... The win snapped a three-game slide.
- Under head coach Sam Walker the Lions are 15-8 including a 8-game winning streak from the 2002-03 to 2007-0.8.
- Cameron has won six of the last eight meetings
About the Aggies
- Cameron is coming off of an 83-82 loss at West Texas A&M on January 10 ... The loss snapped a five game winning streak including 98-71 over Eastern New Mexico in their LSC opener.
- Deondre Ray leads the team in scoring 16.3 points per game while shooting 57.3 percent from the floor and 44.2 percent from three ... Matthrew Don and KeDorian Sullivan average 11.7 and 11.3 points per game respectively ... Desmond Henry is the fourth Aggie averaging 10.9 points per game.
- The Aggies are second in the Lions in points per game a 83.6 and lead the league in the three-point shooting percentage at 42.5 percent.