#715/716 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Under 126.5 Points – FIU vs North Texas, Saturday at 4 PM ET - UNT is the slowest paced team in the nation (363 in adjusted tempo) and one of the better defensive teams in the country (25th in defensive efficiency). This team has not allowed any of their 13 opponents to reach 60 points. Now they are facing an FIU team who isn’t very efficient offensively (296th in adjusted efficiency) and really struggles to shoot it from deep making only 28.9% from beyond the arc (335th nationally). FIU has had some higher scoring games but they prefer to play fast and most of those games have come vs other high tempo teams. UNT will slow this game to a crawl as they do in every game and the slow paced team almost always wins out as far as tempo goes. Against other high tempo teams (rank in the top 50 in adjusted tempo) the Mean Green have kept it low scoring. Versus UMass (ranked 38th in adjusted tempo) the total points scored was 106 and vs Long Beach St (13th adjusted tempo) the total points scored was 115. On the other end while UNT is great defensively, not so much on offense. They rank outside the top 295 on eFG%, 3 point % and 2 point %. The Mean Green are averaging only 60 PPG on the season. UNT is coming off a loss vs Florida Atlantic in which they totaled only 96 points. FAU is averaging 77 PPG (51st nationally) and UNT held them to 50 points, by far their lowest mark of the season. North Texas will make this a grinder as they always do and this one stays Under.