SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA men’s basketball team (10-17, 4-11 AAC) returns to the Convocation Center for the second-to-last home opportunity this season, bidding farewell on Senior Day to three outstanding players that made San Antonio their home this season: Raekwon Horton, Damari Monsanto and Primo Spears. The opposition for the Sunday, March 2, 5 p.m. tipoff is the long-awaited rematch with Rice (13-16, 4-12 AAC). Sunday’s game will air on UTSA radio and be streamed live on ESPN+. The game will also provide information and themes to create greater Autism Awareness.
Ticket Information
Single Game Tickets
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Adults: $15
Juniors (ages 3-18): $13
Seniors (ages 65+): $13
Military (with ID): $13
Students: Free Admission with UTSA ID, download tickets at goUTSA.com/studentlogin.
On the Air and on the Web
Sunday’s 5 p.m. Senior Day matchup at the Convocation Center will be streamed on ESPN+, with Karl Schoening (play-by-play), UTSA and San Antonio Hall-of-Famer Devin Brown (analyst) and Taylor Guajardo (reporter) on the call.
The radio broadcast will appear on Sports Radio AM 760 The Ticket with Andy Everett (play-by-play) and former coach Tim Carter (analyst) covering the action live from the Convo. As always, the broadcast will feature a 30-minute pregame and 15-minute postgame show – available online at Ticket760.com or via the free iHeartRadio app.
UTSA Athletics will also provide Live Stats.
About the Roadrunners and UTSA Senior Day
The Roadrunners are looking to break the thread on the six-game slide that started the second game of February, with the month featuring six games decided by less than two possessions. The last outing before a well-overdue BYE week wasn’t that far from that standard, as the Roadrunners fell in overtime at East Carolina last Sunday, 96-89. It’s a fresh month on the calendar and the UTSA offense is running as strong as ever at fifth in the high-octane American Athletic Conference on 76.9 ppg – boosted by an NCAA eight-best 15.8 ppg off the fast break and NCAA 27th-most 9.9 three-pointers per outing.
Three of the top four UTSA scorers will be honored during the senior celebration, Horton, Monsanto and Spears have had an immediate impact in their single season in San Antonio.
Coming out of Hartford, Connecticut as a transfer from Florida State, with stops at Duquesne and Georgetown, Spears has ranked as high as third among NCAA scorers this season and leads the team with an NCAA 21st-best 19.8 ppg. A two-time All-State prep player, he’s 16th nationally in minutes at an AAC-high 36:25 and has scored 1,662 career points, boosted by 83 career double-figure performances. Spears ranks seventh in the conference with 3.9 assists per game, fifth in field goals with 170, third in free throw percentage on a team-high 87.2 percent and is sixth in steals at 1.7 per game. He earned a spot on the Dean’s List last Fall and will graduate this summer with his BA in Multidisciplinary Studies with a focus in Public Administration, Sociology and Health.
A Swiss Army Knife-player that contributes to all facets of the game, Horton is from Santee, South Carolina, and came to UTSA from James Madison after playing two seasons at College of Charleston. Twice appearing in the NCAA tournament, he’s averaging 12.6 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1.7 steals. He has four double-doubles this year, is second on the team in rebounds (5.9 rpg) and ties for second in steals (44), ranking third in the conference in steals per game (1.83). With a UTSA second-best 83.5 percent at the free throw line, he is fifth in the AAC. He also ranks fourth in the conference for playing time with an average of 35 minutes per game. He was a two-time South Carolina 3A Player of the Year and two-time Region Player of the Year and will graduate later this year with his BA in Multidisciplinary Studies with a focus in Sociology, Business and Communication.
The third in the group was one of the final piece of the 2025 roster, as Monsanto arrived from Pembroke Pines, Florida, coming to San Antonio as a post-baccalaureate student from Wake Forest – after starting his career at East Tennessee State. In 2022-23 at Wake, he led the ACC with 3.2 threes per game on a team-high 87 threes at a 40.5 percent average. At UTSA, he’s ascended beyond that level, not only leading the American Athletic Conference with 87 total threes but ranking eighth nationally at 3.35 three-pointers per game on an NCAA 16th-best 42.5 percent perimeter shooting toward his 11.0 ppg – in addition to contributing 4.0 rpg.
Among the non-seniors, in the No. 2 scoring and assist position for the Roadrunners, Marcus Millender is averaging 13.9 ppg and 3.2 apg, while leading UTSA with 47 steals (1.7 spg). Pacing the Roadrunners on the boards and defending the circle, Jonnivius Smith is grabbing an AAC-fifth 7.5 rpg, while making a league-fifth 1.5 blocks per outing.
About the Series
The Roadrunners grew their slight edge to 14-11 in the Jan. 14 Tudor Fieldhouse meeting at Rice, as Houston-native Millender went off for went off for 25 points and was 5-of-6 from three-point range – also collecting three steals and four assists vs. the Owls. Meanwhile, Spears racked up 26 points and Horton had 20 to balance the multi-pronged attack. The Roadrunners used heavy perimeter shooting to roll out to a 10-point halftime lead, using 13 total threes to hold off the Owls’ second-half rally in the 90-84 win. With UTSA leading 7-3 in San Antonio, Sunday will mark the 26th meeting between these teams across the 40-year series that opened in 1984. The series kicked off with six early non-conference tilts but gained frequency in 2013-14 when UTSA joined Conference USA.
About the Rice Owls
Now at 13-16 on the season, the Rice Owls saw early-season success under former SMU coach Rob Lanier has Rice, despite being picked last in the preseason conference poll. However, the AAC slate isn’t always forgiving, as the Owls have won just two conference games since falling to the Roadrunners in Houston – defeating East Carolina and topping Tulsa at home on Feb. 22, 77-50. Rice is fresh off a hotly contested road fight at 18th-ranked Memphis on Wednesday, 84-72. On the year, Rice is 4-7 away from home.
Physicality is still a hallmark of a Lanier-coached team and Rice holds opponents to an AAC-third 70.3 ppg and just 42 percent from the floor. They’re also one of the toughest rebounding teams at an AAC-third 38.3 rpg. Offensively, Rice averages 71.5 ppg but has been snakebitten by turnovers with a league-12th 11.9 per game.
Graduate student Trae Broadnax continues to lead the Owls, putting up 12.6 ppg and topping the field goal numbers for Rice, while shooting 40.3 percent from the floor. He’s also a key distributor for the Owls, dishing out 4.3 assists per game. Forward Caden Powell also goes to double-digits with a 10.2 ppg average on a 59.7 percent average, while pacing the team with 7.0 rpg. Also among the scoring leaders are Kellen Amos (9.2) and Denver Anglin (9.0). In the first go-around with the Roadrunners, Broadnax scored 19 and was among Rice’s rebound leaders with six boards, while dishing out six assists.
Up Next
It’s a big Convo finale on Fat Tuesday, as 18th-ranked Memphis travels to San Antonio for the first time in the short series. The league-leading Tigers and Roadrunners will square off at 6 p.m. on March 4 for the final UTSA home game of the season.
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