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Jaguar Men’s Basketball Remains Red Hot.

South Alabama Jaguar men’s basketball remains red hot. The Jaguars came away with their second straight 30 plus point victory. South humiliated first place Southern Miss on Thursday winning by 31. The Jags took it one step further by beating the Warhawks of Louisiana Monroe by 36 points, the final 81-45. Which was the Jaguars largest Sun Belt Conference victory in 15 years when the Jaguars beat Ex-Sun Belt member Denver by 38 ( 71-33)

To make the accomplishment even more memorable. It happened on Senior Day.

The Jags got off to a slow start, which hasn’t been the case for the pat hand full of games. South was down 6 points 10-4 at the 13;29 mark of the 1st half. After a timeout where Coach Richie Riley challenged his team, they responded by going on a 15-0 run. During that run the Jags would both tie the game at ten at the 12:20 mark and balloon a lead to 9 points 19-10 with 9:39 remaining in the 1st half. South would continue to build on the lead getting it as high as 25 with 2;03 remaining in the half. That lead would stay nearly intact as the Jags led by 24 at halftime 44-20.

In the second half it was more of the same. South Alabama kept its foot on the gas. The lead would increase throughout the rest of the game. It would get as high as 39 with 1:37 left to play, before ending the game as a 36 point victory.

The Jags were led by…

Greg Paham II- who came off the bench and, played 25 minutes had 19 points and 1 rebound.

Jamar Franklin- who also came off the bench, and played 23 minutes had 12 points and 3 rebounds.

Judah Brown- who got the start had 12 point (all from behind the 3 point line) with 2 rebounds and played 25 minutes.

Owen White had 10 points and 9 rebounds

Isaiah Moore- finished with 8 points and 3 rebounds

South Alabama shot 56.1 % overall and 50% from behind the 3 point line.

The Jaguars improved their record to 15-14 and 8-8 in the conference. South Alabama has won 4 in a row and 7 out of their last 8. The Jags have climbed in the standings and would now be the 7th seed in the tournament, if it was played today. They are getting hot at the right time.

Next up for Jaguar basketball

The Jags are on the road for the final two games of the regular season. The Jags travel to Texas St Wednesday at 7pm and then Lafayette on Friday to take on the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns. This game will be nationally televised on ESPN 2 at 8pm to close out the regular season schedule.

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Jaguar Women’s Basketball Loses At Texas St

South Alabama women’s basketball lost at Texas St. on Saturday the final 77-57. It was the last road game of the season for the Jaguars.

South Alabama, who is stuck in last place, would get the scoring started early. The Jags would grab a quick 6-0 lead and then lead 9-2 just three minutes into the 1st quarter. The Bobcats who are in 3rd place in the Sun Belt would close the gap to two points 15-13 at the end of the quarter.

Texas St. would grab the lead at 19-17 with 6:51 left in the second quarter. Then, the Bobcats would again take the lead, this time for good 22-20 with 5:43 remaining in the second quarter. By halftime the Jags would trail by 10 the score was 35-25.

In the second half the Texas St lead would balloon to 23 points with 1:11 left in the game. The Jags would close the gap to 20 points with twenty six seconds left in the game.

The Jags were led in scoring by…

Kelsey Thompson- 23 points 1 rebound and shot 33% from behind the 3 point line.

Kiana Anderson- 8 points and 9 rebounds. In 27 minutes of playing time.

Casey Ferguson- 6 points her points came on 3’s , shooting 50% from 3 point line. (2-4)

The Jaguars as a team shot 41.7% for the game. and 36.4% behind the 3 point line. South did out rebound the Bobcats 29-28, and out scored the Bobcat’s off the bench 20-11.

Texas St. shot 51.7% overall and 47.8% from the 3 point line.

The Jaguars are currently in last place in the Sun Belt, with a 6-21 record overall and 2-14 in conference play. The still have two more chances to get out of the 14th slot before tournament play begins. The final two regular season games are at home where South Alabama has picked up 5 of their 6 wins. Wednesday 2/22 the Jags play Georgia Southern and Friday 2/26 when Troy comes to Mobile. Both tips are set for 7 pm.

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South Alabama Has a Dominate Performance Over Southern Miss


If you look up the word dominance in the dictionary, It says the definition is controlling power or influence over others. That is exactly what happened Thursday night at the Mitchell Center. The Jags exerted their dominance over Southern Miss winning by 31. The final 85-54. The 54 points scored were the lowest scored by Southern Miss this season.

South Alabama men’s basketball came into the night, not trailing in five of the past 6 games. Add one more game to that total after tonight. South struck first. Kevin Samuel got the opening tip and got the ball to Judah Brown who connected on a 3-pointer to give the Jags the lead at the 19:39 mark of the 1st half. South Alabama would not look back. South would steadily increase their lead to 15 at the half. 42-27.

The 2nd half was more of the same. The Jag lead would balloon to 34 with 18 seconds left in the game. The lead would drop to 31 after a 3 pointer to wrap up the scoring.

Southern Miss shot 40.4% for the game, and just 23.5% from 3 point range. The Golden Eagles record dropped to 23-5 on the year, and 12-3 in the Sun Belt Conference. Which is still good for first place in the conference. In an odd stat, all 5 of USM’s losses have come on the road.

The leading scorers for Southern Miss were…

Victor Hart- 10 points and 4 rebounds

Denijay Harris- 10 points and 2 rebounds

Austin Crowley- 9 points and 1 rebound

South Alabama shot 55.9% for the game and 40.6% from 3 point range. The Jags improved their record to 14-14 on the year and 7-8 in the conference. The Jaguars are now tied for the 9th seed in the conference tournament with Georgia Southern.

South Alabama was led by…

Isaiah Moore- 16 points and 2 rebounds

Jamar Franklin- 15 points 4 rebounds and 4-5 from 3 point range

Owen White- 14 points 5 rebounds and 4-13 from 3 point range.

Kevin Samuel- 12 points and 6 rebounds

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones- 10 points and 4 rebounds.

Judah Brown- 9 points 2 rebounds and 3-7 from 3 point range

Next up for South Alabama is the final home game of the regular season versus ULM, it will be senior day. Game time 3pm GO JAGS!!!

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South Alabama Jaguar Men’s Basketball Prepare for a Rivalry Game.

South Alabama versus Southern Miss has become a bigger rivalry this year with addition of USM into the Sun Belt Conference. On Thursday February 16th the rivalry continues. The Jaguars will welcome the Golden Eagles to the Mitchell Center at 7pm

This season, USM has been on fire. The Golden Eagles started off the season going 8-0, which included a win over the SEC’s Vanderbilt. Southern Miss has a current record of 23-4 overall and 12-2 in the conference, and have won 9 straight games.

All 4 of the losses by USM this season have come on the road. This will be the 48th meeting between the two teams. South Alabama trails in the series 27-20. That includes the Jaguars going 11-12 in those games in Mobile. The Jags were beat earlier this season in Hattiesburg 76-72. The Jags and Golden Eagles are tied 8 wins each in recent history.

The Jags are playing pretty good basketball right now. USA has not trailed in 5 of its last 6 games. The Jags are 13-14 overall and 6-8 in the Sun Belt Conference. The Jaguars have won 5 out of the last 6, and are 8-4 at home this season. Kevin Samuel is now the active career leader in rebounds with 1,291.

Southern Miss comes in led by…

Austin Crowley- 16.9 ppg

Felipe Haase- 15.2 ppg

DeAndre Pinckney- 13.9 ppg

USM is averaging 75.7 points per game. The Golden Eagles are shooting 46.5% overall and 32.5% from behind the 3 point line.

South Alabama is led by…

Isaiah Moore- 18.7 ppg

Kevin Samuel- 10.4 ppg

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones -10.0 ppg

The Jags are averaging 70.0 points per game. South is shooting 46.1% overall and 32.5% behind the 3 point line.

Thursday night’s game is announced to be a white out. Fans and students are encouraged to were white. Plenty of tickets are still available for the game.

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South Alabama women’s basketball team prepare for their final road trip of the regular season.

The South Alabama women’s basketball team is preparing for their final road trip of the 2023 regular season. The Jaguars play 2 games this week Thursday February 16th at Arkansas State and then on Saturday February 18th the Jags will travel to San Marcos Texas to take on Texas State.

Looking at the Arkansas State game. Coming into the game, the Red Wolves are struggling with an overall record of 8-17 and 3-11, tied for 12th place in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Jags have not fared well in the series historically. Arkansas State leads the series, 41-15. During Head coach Terry Fowler run as head coach, the Jags are just 5-12 versus Arkansas State. In the last match up between the Jaguars and Arkansas State. The Red Wolves beat the Jags 63-47.

Arkansas State is led by…

Izzy Higginbottom- 14.1 PPG and 3.0 RPG

Lauryn Pendleton- 11.8 PPG and 5.0 RPG

Anna Griffin- 9.8 PPG and 7.7 RPG

The Red Wolves are averaging 66.8 points per game and giving up 71.6 points per game. Arkansas State is shooting 37% and 29% from the 3 point line.

The Jaguars are struggling also, with an overall record of 6-19 and 2-12, currently in 14th place in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Jags are led by…

Kelsey Thompson- 9.6 PPG and 4.1 RPG

Kiana Anderson- 7.7 PPG and 5.5 RPG

Nadia Howard- 7.0 PPG and 3.6 RPG

South Alabama is averaging 55.2 points per game, and 36.8 rebounds per game. The Jags are shooting 33.8% and 27.3% behind the 3 point line.

The Jaguars have lost 12 out of their last 14 games. The Jags have averaged scoring 51.7 points in those games. While their opponents have scored 64.8 points in those same games. South will have their work cut out for them, as they try to climb out of the cellar of the Sun Belt Conference.

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South Alabama wraps up the non conference schedule versus Hartford

The South Alabama Jaguars wrap up the non conference schedule beating the Hartford Hawks by the final of 77-53. This was the first ever match up between the Jaguars and the independent Hawks.

This game was a mismatch from the beginning. The Jags scored first, sixteen seconds into the game on a jumper in the paint by Kevin Samuel, and never looked back. The Hawks hit a three pointer at the 13:19 mark of the first half to get within 5 at 16-11. That is as close as the Hawks would get for the rest of the game.

South Alabama would build a steady lead. The Jags would lead by 11 at halftime the score was 38-27.

Both teams teams came out a little cold. The Jags didn’t score in the second half until the 18:24 mark. Hartford went scoreless for the first 4:35 of the 2nd half, hitting a three to cut the Jag lead to 17 at 46-29 . That score stopped a Jaguar 10-2 scoring run.

South Alabama would slowly increase the lead throughout the rest of the second half to twenty on two different occasions. The Jags would increase the lead to 25 points at 77-52 with 28 seconds left.

South Alabama’s leading scorer on the night were….

Isaiah Moore- with his usual 20 points and 2 rebounds

Greg Parham II- 13 points and 1 rebound

Kevin Samuel- 13 points and 10 rebounds Yet another double-double

And honorable mention and crowd favorite Adam Sizemore 3 points on a three pointer with 2 minutes of playing time.

The Jags shot 52.5% overall and 36.4% from 3 point land. Hartford shot 38.3% overall and 29.4% from behind the arc.

Game Notes:

Kevin Samuel had his 9th double-double this season.
The Jaguars had only 3 turnovers for the whole game.
Isaiah Moore scored 20 points for the 11th time this season.

Up next: Southern Miss comes to the Mitchell Center as the Jags continue their 4 game home stand. Southern Miss is the top team in the Sun Belt Conference. USM has an overall record of 23-4 and 12-2 in the Sun Belt. The Jags are in 10th place.

In the previous match-up on January 19th in Hattiesburg. Southern Miss had trouble with the Jags. The Golden Eagles used great shooting from the free throw line to beat the Jags by 4 points 76-72.

The Jags improve their overall record to 13-14 and 6-8 in the conference, with just 4 games remaining in the regular season.


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Jaguar men’s basketball beats App St. at the Mitchell Center

The South Alabama Jaguar men’s basketball team scored first and led 2-0 at the 19:10 mark of the 1st half. The Jags would never trail or or relinquish the lead to App State. South continued to score in the half building a 14 point lead of 40-26 at halftime. South would come out the second half and slowly in crease the lead to 25. At the 7:01 mark The Jags led 66-41. App State would get the lead down to 15 at 70-55 with 2:12 left. That’s as close as the Mountaineers would get. The final score the Jags beat App St at the Mitchell Center 74-57.

The Jags were led in scoring by…

Isaiah Moore- 16 points and 3 rebounds

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones- 15 points and 6 rebounds

Owen White- 14 points and 2 rebounds

Kevin Samuel- 8 points and 9 rebounds

The Jags shot 59.2% overall and 41.7% from behind the 3 point line. South Alabama had 28 rebounds and was a perfect 11-11 shooting free throws.

App State shot 37.7% overall and 22.2% from behind the 3 point line. The Mountaineers had 28 rebounds and shot free throws at a 70% clip. The Jags out scored the Mountaineers in the paint 42-34.

The Jags improve their record to 12-14 overall and 6-8 in the Sun Belt. South Alabama is sitting as the 10th seed right now with 4 conference games remaining. If the Jags can win the remaining conference games they could get as high as the 8th or 9th seed. Which is a better position than they were in earlier last week.

App State drops to 14-13 overall and 7-7 in conference play.

Next up for the Jags as they continue their home stand is the final out of conference game vs The University of Hartford. The Hawks are 5-20 on the year. The Jags will probably be the Hawks toughest test this season

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Jaguar Women’s basketball falter late versus Louisiana

The South Alabama Jaguar women’s basketball team played well for a half versus Louisiana. The third quarter was the difference in this game. The Jags were competing with the Ragin’ Cajuns for the first 2 quarters, actually taking a 4 point lead 18-14 at the 9:25 mark in the 2nd quarter. South Alabama would give the lead back to Louisiana 20-18 at the 6:25 mark and the Jags would end up trailing at halftime 29-26. The Jags shot 35% from the field and 17% behind the 3 point line, in the first half. (Including an 0-9 for 3’s in the 2nd quarter.) but still managed to keep it within 3 points at the half. Louisiana shot 56% from the field and 33% behind the 3 point line in the 1st half.

The Jags come out of halftime and took a 3 point lead at the 6:16 mark of the 3rd quarter. That gave the Jags 8 points in the 3rd quarter. That was the last time South Alabama scored in the 3rd quarter. In fact the Jags would be held scoreless until the 7:49 mark of the 4th quarter. When Kiana Anderson hit a jumper to cut the 14 point Louisiana lead to 12. The South Alabama would cut the lead to 8 multiple times. Louisiana would prove to just be too much for the Jags. The final score Jags lose 58-48.

South Alabama was led in scoring by…

Kelsey Thompson- 11 points and 3 rebounds

Kiana Anderson- 8 points and 5 rebounds

Nadia Howard- 7 points and 1 rebound

The Jags record falls to 6-19 overall and just 2-12 in the Sun Belt Conference. South Alabama stays in last place. Just a game behind both La Monroe and Arkansas St. The Jags finish up the road part of their schedule next week, with games at Arkansas State and at Texas State. Before returning home to finish the regular season versus Georgia Southern and Troy.

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South Alabama women’s basketball takes on Louisiana at the Mitch.

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The South Alabama women’s basketball team has another tough task in front of it. The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns come to the Mitchell Center. They will play in the 1st game of a men’s and women’s double header Saturday February 11th. The Jags are now just trying to play for seeding.

The Jags could still, believe it or not, get to the middle seeds. They will have to win out and get a little bit of help. Even though it’s highly unlikely, South Alabama could get hot at the right time, and put a few more wins together and get to a 10-12 seed in the Sun Belt Conference tournament. Right now the Jags sit as the 14th seed which is good for last place in the conference.

Louisiana comes to Mobile with a 14-11 overall record and 8-5 in the SBC. The Ragin Cajuns are led by…

Tamera Johnson- 12.0 PPG and 7.3 RPG

Laney Wheaton- 11.7 PPG and 3.9 RPG

Louisiana is averaging 58.8 points per game. The Cajuns are shooting 37% from the floor and 26 % from behind the three point line. Louisiana is averaging 35.4 rebounds per game.

The South Alabama Jaguars are led by…

Kelsey Thompson- 9.5 PPG and 4.1 RPG

Kiana Anderson- 7.7 PPG and 5.6 RPG

Nadia Howard- 7.0 PPG and 3.7 RPG.

The Jags this season are averaging 55.5 points per game, and are shooting 33% overall. South Alabama is shooting 27% from behind the 3 point line while averaging 37.3 rebounds per game.

Like I stated earlier, the Jags have their work cut out for them, but the job is not impossible. The Jags have a 6-18 record overall and are only 2-11 in the Sun Belt with just 5 conference games remaining. After today the Jags will have 2 road games at Arkansas State and at Texas st. Also there will be two home games remaining vs Georgia Southern and finishing the regular season vs Troy.

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South Alabama Men’s basketball to begin a big four game home stand

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The South Alabama men’s basketball team begins an extremely important four game home stand, starting Saturday 5 pm at the Mitchell Center. There is still uncertainty with the Jags season as far as seeding and where they could end up. As of today the Jags are tied with Texas St. for 10th place in the Sunbelt Conference. While the chance of the winning the regular season championship are at zero percent. They can however play for better seeding for the upcoming conference tournament.

The Jags have a tough game to start the home stand. App State is currently sitting in a four way tie for 5th place. The Mountaineers have an overall record of 14-12 and 7-6 in the Sunbelt. App St is lead by…

Donovan Gregory- 11.9 PPG and 4.1 RPG

Tyree Boykin- 11.6 PPG and 2.8 RPG

Terence Harcum- 11.0 PPG and 2.4 RPG

The Mountaineers as a team are averaging 70.9 points per game and giving up 63.5 PPG. App St is averaging 36.4 rebounds per game and shooting 33.4% from the three point line.

South Alabama is lead by….

Isaiah Moore- 18.8 PPG and 3.4 RPG

Kevin Samuel- 10.4 PPG and 9.3 RPG

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones- 9.9 PPG and 3.3 RPG

The Jags are averaging 69.6 points per game. Interestingly enough the Jags are giving up 66.9 points per game. That means that the Jags are playing in a lot of very close games. They are shooting 45.4 % as a team, 33.0 rebounds per game and 32.2 % behind the three point line.

The Jags only have 6 game’s remaining, 4 home games, and only 5 games left in conference play. So every game from here on out, is very important leading up to conference play. Like I stated before this home stand will be difficult it includes a game vs Southern Miss. The Golden Eagles are in first place in the Sunbelt Conference. They close out the home schedule vs ULM.