>>11.28.05
Comets Can't Overcome First-Half Slide;
Fall To 0-5 After Letting HSU Get Away
Hardin-Simmons 58, UTD 47

RICHARDSON, TX - The winless University of Texas at Dallas men's basketball team did nothing to help itself snap out of its early-season slide Monday night. A 29 percent first-half shooting performance put the Comets in a 26-17 hole that UTD could not overcome in a sloppy 58-47 loss to Hardin-Simmons.

UTD (0-5, 0-2), which hit just five shots from the floor in the first half, actually rallied in the second half and took a pair of leads. Unfortunately for the Comets, neither stood up.

With 10:59 left in the game, UTD finally caught up and tied the score at 32-32 on a pair of Adam Bush free throws, only to see HSU instantly stretch its lead out to six points (41-35) three minutes later. Then, with 3:51 to go, guard Travis Carruthers (pictured) nailed one of his four three-point shots to put UTD up, 47-46. That would be the last bucket the Comets would make the rest of the game as UTD did not score in the game's final 3:51.

Carruthers was the only Comet to finish in double figures, finishing the night with 12 points. Guard Martin Salinas, who had 60 points in the last two games and set a school single-game scoring record on Saturday with 40, was held to just 2 points.

Hardin-Simmons got 14 points from Tanner Kudrna, 10 of which he scored during the Cowboys' final run in the game's final minutes.

UTD is off the rest of the week and returns to action next Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 6-7, with games at Texas Lutheran and Schreiner Universities.

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