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Jaguar Women’s Basketball Introduced Its New Coach And Staff

Jaguar women’s basketball introduced its as new head coach and staff . Officially announced on April 5, 2023, Yolisha Jackson was hired to take over the women’s basketball program. Coach Jackson is no stranger to South Alabama. She was previously on the women’s basketball coaching staff from 2013-2020. Coach Jackson was an Assistant Coach & Recruiting Coordinator. During the 2019-2020 season she was the Assistant Head Coach. During her time at South Alabama, the Jags had two 20-win seasons and in the 2018-2019 season the program set a record of 25 wins. Coach Jackson was also instrumental in the development of Chynna Ellis who went on to become the Sunbelt Conference Defensive Player of Year in 2016 and 2018.

Coach Jackson was a Recruiting Coordinator Kennesaw State, Air Force, South Alabama, and South Florida. At South Florida Coach Jackson was also an Assistant Coach and during her time there, South Florida made three NCAA appearances. In 2021 Coach Jackson was highlighted by Sports Illustrated and Empower Onyx in the series 100 Influential Black Women in Sports. This series focused on Black women in all sports who were making an impact in their communities and who are vital in developing the future generation of leaders in the community. 

Coach Jackson has already started assembling her staff at South Alabama. Eryc Pittman was announced as an assistant coach on Coach Jackson’s staff. Coach Pittman spent two seasons at Austin Peay as an assistant coach. At Austin Peay, the Governors had a 37-25 record in two seasons and went to the Women’s Basketball Invitational in 2022. Coach Pittman was at Jacksonville State for six seasons where he coordinated scouting reports and recruiting. Before Jacksonville State, Coach Pittman was at Brewton-Parker College, Abbey College and was a Grad Assistant at Eastern Kentucky.

Jackson also added former Jag player and grad assistant Colby Davis. Davis spent the past two seasons at FAMU as an assistant coach.

Davis began her coaching career at Pearl River, where she was responsible for recruiting and film breakdowns, while developing guards and post players. Davis was a GA at South Alabama. In 2019-2020 she helped the Jaguars get the the Sun Belt Conference semifinals and Quarterfinals in 2020-2021.

At  the end of the  2022-2023 women’s basketball season, the Jags were 7-23 and the program has only one NCAA appearance in its history. Coach Jackson is ready to “raise the bar”.  She feels that the Jags have the talent to become successful, but says it is a “process” and will take time. The future looks bright for the Jaguars.

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Jaguar Basketball Falls Just Short In Sun Belt Conference Finals

Jaguar basketball falls just short in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament finals. The final score 71-66. The Jags played with a high amount energy and led for a good majority of the game. Isaiah Moore was lights out tonight. Owen White had a great look for the final shot of the game. White circle around a screen and stepped back from the 3 point line about 2 steps to create some space and received the pass. Owen fired off the three that looked like it was headed in, but instead it bounced around the rim and went out. Breaking the hearts of the players, the Jag fans in attendance and those watching at home.

The game started off the same way the past two games have. The Jags would come out scoring fast. South would lead 5-0 at the 18:26 mark of the first half. Louisiana would get it going offensively. Going on a 5-0 run getting the Jaguars lead down to two points, but the Jaguars would answer back with a run of their own. The Jaguars and the Ragin Cajuns would square off in an epic tournament battle. South would go up 6 points then Louisiana would come back getting ahead by 3 and the Jags would surge back in front. The Jaguars would lead 37-33 at halftime.

Isaiah Moore had 16 of the Jags 37 points at halftime.

The second half start off with more of the same. The Jags would increase the lead to 7 points, the score was 40-33 1:55 into the second half. Louisiana would get the lead again 47-46 with 12:36 left in the game. Fortunately the Jaguars would not fall behind by more than 6 for rest of the game. Unfortunately the Jags would never get the lead again. The Jags would scratch and claw and get the deficit to 1 point with 17 seconds left. Louisiana would push the lead to 3 points. That would set up South Alabama for the last shot with 13 seconds left. Owen White would inbound the ball to Isaiah Moore, who would work the ball down the court, and pass it to White for the three that fell just short. The Jaguars were forced to foul and that would wrap it up.

The Jaguars leading scorers were…

Isaiah Moore- 33 points and 1 rebound

Kevin Samuel- 12 points and 6 rebounds.

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones- 8 points and 10 rebounds.

Owen White was quiet tonight- 6 points and 4 rebounds.

Louisiana is a great team and should be given all of the credit. The Jaguars had their chances but they couldn’t capitalize on all of them.

South Alabama’s record falls to 19-16 overall. We will have to wait and see if the Jags get any kind of smaller post season tournament invites. Like the Basketball Classic from last year.

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Jaguar Basketball Is Just One Win Away From “Going Dancing”

Jaguar Basketball Is Just One basketball is just one win away from going dancing. The Jags beat James Madison by the final score of 75-65. That win puts South Alabama in the finals of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament on Monday. South Alabama is on fire at the right time of the season. The Jags won 8 out the last ten games to end the season and three straight in the tournament in convincing fashion.

The Jags got off to a great start (never trailing in the game) scoring 10 unanswered points to start the game. James Madison missed its first 5 shots and did not score until the 16:23 mark of the 1st half. The Dukes were able to take advantage of a scoring drought by South Alabama. At the 12:50 mark in the first half JMU got to within two points. The Jags led 12-10.

South Alabama would steadily push the lead back to eleven points. The score was 30-19 with 4:52 left in the 1st half. The Jags would lead by seven at halftime 38-30.

The Jaguar lead would stay around 7-10 in the second half. Thanks to key 3 point shooting again by Owen White and Greg Parham II. Jags win the final score 75-66.

South Alabama scoring leaders were…

Isaiah Moore- 18 points and 5 rebounds

Owen White- 17 points including 4-8 from the 3 point line, and three rebounds

Greg Parham II- 16 points including 2-4 from three point range, and 2 rebounds

Tyrell “Turbo” Jones- 10 points and 5 rebounds

Kevin Samuel- only 4 points but he had 12 rebounds and 2 blocked shots.

The Jags will play #2 seed Louisiana who beat #7 seed Georgia Southern to get to the semifinals. In the regular season the Jags went 0-2 versus Louisiana.

The win over JMU gave the Jags 19 wins on the season.

Next Game Up

The Sun Belt Conference Championship Game ESPN 2 @ 6pm Monday March 6th

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South Alabama Basketball Moves On To The Semifinals

South Alabama basketball moves on to the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, beating the number one seed Southern Miss. The final score 78-61. Owen White had himself a game, as the Jags took a one point deficit at halftime and turned it into a 17 point victory.

South Alabama started a little slow, getting on the board first (3-0) at the 18:35 mark.
grabbing a 6-0 lead before USM would get on the board. The Jaguars would trail by as much as 6 points (27-21) at the 2:54 mark of the 1st half. The Jags would answer back. Owen White would hit a big three pointer, to bring the Jaguars back to within a 1 point halftime deficit. The Jaguars trail 27-26.

As the second half gets going the Jaguars and Golden Eagles go back and forth. The Jags would grab a 5 point lead and Southern Miss would close the gap to 1. At the 8:47 mark Southern Miss took a two point lead with 8:47 left in the game. That would be the last time Southern Miss would lead. It was all Jags for the rest of the game.

South Alabama would build a steady lead of 19 with 2:07 remaining which included an 17-2 run by the Jaguars. They once again led by 19 with 58 seconds left in the game. The Jaguars would score 52 points in the second half to put the Golden Eagles away.

Despite the loss Southern Miss should still get an NIT bid. The Jags however would most likely have to win the tournament to advance to March Madness.

The Jags were led in scoring by…

Owen White- 23 points ( season high) including shooting 45% from the 3 point line, along with 6 rebounds.

Isaiah Moore- 17 points and 5 rebounds.

Kevin Samuel- 10 points and 5 rebounds.

South Alabama shot just 20% from the 3 point line in the 1st half. The second half however was a totally different story. The Jags would shoot 60% behind the 3 point line in the second half.

South Alabama’s record would improve to 18-15 overall. They move on to the Semifinals tomorrow versus James Madison at 5pm. James Madison moves on after beating the Jags other rival, Troy today in the 2nd quarterfinals game. The Jags beat JMU 63-62 earlier this season in a game played in Mobile. Kevin Samuel would block a last second layup to secure the Jaguar victory.

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Jaguar Men’s Basketball Loses Final Regular Season Game

Jaguar men’s basketball lost for the first time in five games, at the Cajundome to Louisiana. The final score 74-64 in the final game of the regular season. Louisiana was a much more physical team. The Cajuns disrupted the flow of the Jags offense.

The first half was pretty much back and forth. Neither team would get out to a lead larger than 3 points, and the Jaguars would squeeze out a one point advantage at halftime.

The second half started off much of the same way, that the first half did. Louisiana would grab a four point lead of 49-45 at the 11:30 mark of the 2nd half. Slowly increasing their lead to 12 on numerous occasions. The final time was at the 4:18 mark of the second half. The Jaguars could only get the lead down to 6 points with 1:16 left in the game. The Cajuns would get the lead back up to 10 to end the game.

The Jaguars were led by…

Isaiah Moore- 22 points and one rebound.

Owen White- 15 points and 3 rebounds

Kevin Samuel- 9 points and 4 rebounds

The Jaguars record falls to 16-15 overall and 9-9 in the Sun Belt. The Jags were able to get up to the 8th seed and a first round bye, thanks to the previous 5 game winning streak. They will now face the 9th seed App State, in the second round on Thursday March 2nd at 11:30. The tournament is very winnable for South Alabama, The Jaguars beat App State 74-57 on February 11th. The winner of this game would await a rested number 1 seed Southern Miss. South Alabama is 1-1 this season vs USM losing by 4 points on the road 76-72, and winning at home versus the Golden Eagles by 31 points 85-54.

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Jaguar Women’s Basketball Wins On Senior Night.

Jaguar Women’s Basketball wins a hard fought battle with their rival Troy. The Jags were down one, the score 59-58 with 3 seconds left. Troy and the Jaguars would both take timeouts. South Alabama would have the ball as play resumed. Freshman sensation Kelsey Thompson would get the ball, and hit a jumper from outside the paint as time expired. Giving the Jags the victory as time expired over the Troy.

South Alabama get the scoring started early, on a three pointer by Casey Ferguson, ten seconds into the game. The Jags and Troy would go back and forth during the most of the first quarter. The Jaguars would eventually start to pull away at the end of quarter, going up by nine, scoring on Ferguson’s second chance jump shot in the paint with 5 seconds left. That would cap off an amazing run in the first quarter by Ferguson, scoring 14 points and 3 rebounds. The Jags led 25-16.

The momentum would be short lived as the second quarter moved along the Jaguars would become ice cold. South didn’t make their first goal until nearly halfway into the quarter. Kelsey Thompson would hit a pull up jumper at the 5:26 mark. Then, Thompson would hit a three pointer at the 4:52 mark to push the Jags lead to ten at 30-20. Unfortunately those 5 points are all the Jags would get for the entire quarter. Troy was able to trim the lead down to two, the Jaguars led 30-28 at the half.

Troy was able to outscore the Jaguars 19-14 to take a lead of 47-44 at the end of the third quarter.

The 4th quarter was more back and forth. Troy’s lead would get to seven points at 51-44, at the 8:43 mark. The Jaguars would go on a 7-0 run to tie the game at 51 apiece with 5:34 left in the game. Troy’s lead would get back up to 4 points, with 1:33 left before the Jaguars would cut the deficit to one with ten seconds left. That would lead to the exciting finish by Thompson.

The Jags were led by…

Kelsey Thompson- 22 points and 8 rebounds, recording her 13th double-figure game game this season and her 5th game with over 20 points on the season.

Casey Ferguson- 16 points and 7 rebounds. Casey had 14 of those poirter and made 4 three pointers throughout the game which were season highs.

Kiana Anderson – 6 points and 9 rebounds The 9 rebounds led the team for the 12th time this season.

With the win the Jaguars improved their record to 7-22 overall and 3-15 in the Sun Belt Conference. The win would also get the Jags out of last place in the standings, and up to the 13th seed for the Sun Belt tournament. The Jaguars will still have to win 5 straight games to move on, which, they have not been able to do all season. Anything can happen though, during tournament time.

Next up

The 13 seed Jaguars will play 12 seed Georgia State in the opening game of the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Game time 11:30 on February 28th.
South lost to Georgia State in overtime of their last matchup. The winner of this game will face Old Dominion.






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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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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.