Tag: Southern Basketball

Southern repeats as SWAC Tournament champs, headed to NCAA Tournament

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Image via SWAC.org Courtesy of the Southwestern Athletic Conference Box Score ATLANTA, Georgia- The Southern Jaguars claimed their fourth SWAC Tournament Championship title in the past three seasons after claiming a 73-56 over the Alabama State Hornets at Gateway Arena. The Jaguars used an impressive display of offensive production coupled with a stellar defensive effort to win the title in spectacular fashion. Southern’s Zaria Hurston paced the Jaguars offensively scoring a team high 13 points to go along with three rebounds and one steal. SU’s Olivia Delancy added 12 points, D’Shantae…

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Southern stuns No. 1 seed Alabama A&M, moves one win from SWAC repeat

Brandon King

image via Southern Athletics In their previous meeting, the Southern University Lady Jaguars fell just short against the Alabama A&M Lady Bulldogs, losing 64–61. This time around, the defending champions flipped the script. Southern kept its Southwestern Athletic Conference title defense alive with a gritty 51–49 victory over No. 1 seed Alabama A&M to advance to the SWAC Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game. The Lady Jags’ defense was both stifling and timely. Southern held the Lady Bulldogs — the third-most efficient offense in the SWAC — to just 51 points…

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Southern adds another Big-12 skin to the wall, beats Houston 70-62

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After stunning Arizona 63-57 on Wednesday, the Southern University women’s hoops team followed up with a wire-to-wire 70-62 win over Houston Sunday afternoon.  Southern took the lead on Mykayla Cunningham’s driving layup on the game’s first possession. The Jaguars maintained the pole position for the balance of the period, taking as much as a 7-point lead. Houston, shot the ball well 50% (5-10) from the field and 66% (2-3) downtown, however, UH was hampered by 6 turnovers in the period.  In the second quarter, the Cougars would pare the Southern…

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Southern goes down to Grambling on the road

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Willie D. Scott, Associate Director of Strategic Communications | Director of Media Relations, Southern University GRAMBLING, LA —  The Jaguars got off to a slow start and was never able to recover dropping their second conference game to Grambling on Saturday afternoon inside Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center. Final score was 69-45. HOW IT HAPPENED– The Tigers outscored the Jaguars 19-10 to end the first quarter to take a 9-point lead after the first ten minutes of the contest, 19-10.– The Tigers outscored the Jaguars 30-9 to blow the game wide…

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