Halftime: # 10 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions-40, # 6 Texas-Permian Basin Falcons-42

It’s been a slugfest on the Permian Basin, with the two teams exchanging blows. This one will come down to the wire. Second half coming up.

WBB Final: Texas A&M-Commerce-88, Texas-Permian Basin-77-Overtime

Lions pick up a huge road win and are now number 1 in the LSC with an 11-5 record overall and 8-1 in LSC play. Thoughts on this and their huge game against West Texas A&M on Friday.

Recruiting The Blacklands, 2018-The defense of the 2017 National Title Begins

Greetings, Lion fans. As Coach Carthel said in a joyous celebration in Kansas City, “It’s all about recruiting.” So, with an early signing period under our belts, let us take a look at how you defending National Champions are restocking their shelves for another run. There’s a saying that fits here….”The hunter now becomes the…

-The Morning After-# 12 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions-82, Tarleton State Texans-71

The Lions pick up another big win to stay undefeated and in first place in the Lone Star Conference and 14-1 overall. It was truly a tale of halves. The Lions dominated TSU for the first half, and then the Texans came back and actually outscored the Lions by 2 in the second half, but…

Final: Texas A&M-Commerce Lions-68, Tarleton State TexAnns-62

Jason Burton coached his 100th game and it was a good one and an important one, as the Lions pushed their record to 9-5 overall and notched another huge LSC win to move to 6-1 as the Lions downed arch-rival Tarleton State 68-62. Burton’s career record is now 59-41 overall and 36-23 in LSC play…

Lion Hoops: Women’s & Men’s Teams Pick Up Important Home Wins Vs. Angelo State

Women’s- Texas A&M-Commerce-78, Angelo State-74 Senior Brianna Wise hit for 22 points as the A&M-Commerce Women’s team moved to 8-5 overall, and most importantly 5-1 in LSC play. A few thoughts: I said that one thing that would be a deciding factor in how the Lion Women end up this season is how they would…

Final: # 18 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions-73, Texas A&M-Kingsville-62

Junior Guard Willie Rooks scored 19 points while Reggie Reid added 16 and Aaron Horne 11 as The 18th ranked Texas A&M-Commerce Men’s Basketball team pushed their record to 12-1 overall and 5-1 in LSC play with a 73-62 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville Thursday night at University Fieldhouse in Commerce. The Lions will face another…

Final: Texas A&M-Commerce-63, Texas A&M-Kingsville-48

Arteajah Gay put in 17 points and Melanie Ransom added 14 points as the Texas A&M-Commerce women’s team moved their record to 7-5 overall and 4-1 in LSC play with a convincing 63-48 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville. The Lady Cagers of TAMUC started fast and never looked back leading 33-25 at the half before keeping…

Midweek Wire-Carthel’s Contract Extended, Lion Post Season Football Accolades, Former QB Davis AFL Rookie Of Year.

Per Lionathletics.com, Colby Carthel’s contract has been extended through the year 2021. Great news and needed to be done. Dr. Ray Keck’s thoughts on signing Carthel to another year: “Colby Carthel’s leadership of our football program has transformed our institution in ways we have never experienced,” Keck noted. “To celebrate a national championship has our proud…

Lion Hoops: 5 Thoughts Heading into 2018.

A Roaring Start-The Lions have started the season 11-1 and have started in this fashion for the past 3 seasons. With a ranking at # 18 in the country, strong showings in the Heartland/LSC Challenge and in the Angelo State Invitational, they have built a strong out of conference resume. Their lone loss was a…

Lady Lions Basketball-5 Thoughts So Far

Overall, the Ladies are 6-5. Now, looking at the out of conference record, it is 3-4. Here is something to be optimistic about; those 3 of those 4 losses were lost by an average of 4 points. These games were not blowout losses. They were close losses, and the fact that this team is close…

Lion Soccer: 5 Post Season Thoughts

Next, onto a group that contends year in and year out, The TAMUC Lions Soccer team. When excellence is your standard, it can be kind of hard to accept a 12-4-1 record when you fall short of your goals, which is to get into the National Tournament each year and compete for a LSC title.…

2017 Lion Volleyball Post-Mortem: 5 Thoughts

This is Part 1 in a 4 part series wrapping up the Fall Sports season. We also want to say to those who participated in Volleyball, Soccer, Cross Country, and Golf, we apologize for not covering you all as much as we should have and would have liked. The Lion Wire is adding a final…

2017 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions Football-5 Thoughts On Institutional Impact.

This is Part 2 in a 2 part series on the thoughts about the Lion Football season This section covers the effect on the University and institution as a whole. Winning a national championship for a school usually means big time pride and good feelings all around. The first thing that this season did was…

2017-That Championship Season, A Look Back at the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions

Many Happy Holiday wishes, Lion Fans, and it has indeed been a happy one for all of us. We at The Lion Wire would like to take a look back at the happiest of seasons, on that will be remembered forever, and talked about for a very long time. It’s been 45 years since the…

The Morning After: Texas A&M-Commerce Lions 37, West Florida Argonauts-27-Lions celebrate first National Title in 45 Years.

Exactly 45 years and 7 days ago, The Lions of East Texas State University lofted their first National Title Trophy. The game was in Commerce and the town celebrated for days. For years, it was something for the Lion program to hang their hat on. Last night, the ups and downs that have happened since…

NCAA DIV. II National Championship Game FINAL: Lions 37, Argonauts 24

Drink it in Lion Fans! Revel in it. An extremely Happy Morning After tomorrow, but from now on, your Lions are…….THE CHAMPIONS.

NCAA Div. II National Championship: Lions 34, Argonauts 20. End of the Third

15 minutes to go, Lion fans! Great defensive effort to overcome a costly fumble, and then the 2017 Harlon Hill Award winner does what he does. Take heart, Lion fans.

Halftime-Lions 20, Argonauts 14..NCAA Div. II National Championship

Sloppy second quarter….Lions miss on a couple of scoring opportunities, and allow a touchdown pass to Ashley shortly before the half, but maintain a 20-14 lead. Take heart, Lion Fans…..this team has shown an amazing ability to adjust at halftime. Let’s hope they do it again.

NCAA Div. II National Championship Game: Lions 14, Argonauts 7, End of the 1st.

So far, so well…..other than a fake punt going awry, the Lions are off to a great start.