BEAUMONT, Texas – The Lamar University men's basketball team has released the rosters for the 2015 Red vs. White Scrimmage announced head coach
Tic Price Monday afternoon. The Red team will be coached by
Bobby Kummer while
Anthony Anderson will coach the White team.
Brian Burton will serve as the assistant coach for the Red team, and
Matt Pace will assist Anderson and the White team.
The Red team will consist of senior
Quan Jones (guard), juniors
Lincoln Davis (guard),
Christian Kennedy (center) and
Marcus Owens (guard) and freshmen
Dorian Chatman (forward),
Josh Nzeakor (forward) and
Boaz Williams (forward). The White team includes seniors
LeMon Gregory (center) and
Dontavious Sears (forward), junior
Preston Mattingly, sophomores
Kevin Booze (guard) and
Zjori Bosha (guard) and freshmen
Nick Garth (guard),
Terrance Hubby (forward) and
Kirk Mason (guard).
Kummer enters the 2015 exhibition looking to even up the overall record after the Anderson-led Red team got the upper hand last season. The 2014 scrimmage was a thriller that came down to the final seconds, but the game didn't start out that way. The Red team jumped out to a 15-0 lead and pushed its advantage to 26 points before the White started to chip away at the deficit in the second half.
The White team shot a blistering 70 percent from the field in the second half, and had six players end the night in double figures. LU's White squad took their first lead of the game with 15 seconds remaining but the advantage would last only 14 seconds. The Red team got a tip-in with one second on the clock to win the game.
The scrimmage will give fans their first look at the 2015-16 Cardinals. Big Red finished last season off with a 15-15 record, and a 9-9 mark in Southland Conference play. More than doubling its win total from the previous two seasons combined, LU was recognized as recording one of the nation's largest single-season turnarounds. The Cardinals enter the new season picked fifth in a preseason poll of the league head coaches.
The 2015-16 regular-season opener is slated for Friday, Nov. 13 against Austin College. The game against the Roos will tip off at 7 p.m. from the Montagne Center.
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