On Sunday evening, the Texas State Bobcats play the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in one of the Sun Belt Conference tournament’s semifinals at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida. Texas State defeated the Marshall Thundering Herd 71-68 in their quarterfinals matchup on Saturday. The Bobcats were led by Mason Harrell with 17 points. The second seeded Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns defeated Georgia Southern 67-49 in a display of tough defense. The leading scorer for Louisiana was Jordan Brown with 16 points. Louisiana held Georgia Southern to 32.7% shooting. Texas State and Louisiana do not have any players listed on their injury reports.
Texas State entered the Sun Belt tournament as the 11th seed and has won three times, opening with a victory over Georgia State followed by a win over Old Dominion and eliminating the No. 3 seed Marshall on Saturday. Texas State has used a solid defense that is allowing an average of 60.0 points per game in its three games of the tournament. The Texas State offense has also done its part, scoring an average of 72.3 points per game when during the season the Bobcats averaged just 65.6 points per game.
Mason Harold continues to lead the way for Texas State averaging 16.0 points per game while also leading the Bobcats in assists with an average of 2.5 dishes per contest. Nighael Ceaser is the second leading scorer with an average of 9.5 points per game. The top rebounder for Texas State i s Tyrel Morgan with an average of 6.2 boards per contest. Texas State held the high scoring Marshall Thundering Herd to 68 points and 44.0% shooting. The Texas State offense shot 53.0% overall and hit 39.3% of its shots from behind the three-point line.
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