Last week the Men’s basketball team and the Women’s basketball team played in a back-to-back double header at home. The men’s team defeated the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles 80-68 making their record 1-3 while the lady Jaguars beat the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats in a close game 61-59 increasing their record to 2-2. Both the men and women are undefeated at home.
Forward Shawn Prudhomme led the team in scoring with 21 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 assists. For defense Prudhomme made 8 defense rebounds and 1 block.
The second highest scoring Jag was guard Chris Thomas. Thomas came off the bench and scored 13 points and had 7 rebounds.
All together the Jags scored 80 points, had a field goal percentage of 43.5, a three-point percentage of 34.8, and a free throw percentage of 81.8.
The Jaguars are now 1-3 for the season and 1-0 at home.
Tennessee Tech scored 68 points in the final score. They had a field goal percentage of 39.1, a 24.0 3-point percentage, and was 85.7 percent from the free throw line.
For the Lady Jags, forward Briana Green, led with 22 points, 3 assist, and 8 total rebounds. On defense Green had a total of 3 blocks and 4 steals.
The second highest scoring Lady Jag was Cortnei Purnell. Purnell scored 16 points, had a total of 7 rebounds, and 1 assist. On defense Purnell had 2 blocks and no steals.
As a team, the Lady Jags scored a total of 61 points, combined for an average of .321 for field goals, averaged .187 percent from the 3-pointer, and had an average of .641 from the free throw line.
The Lady Wildcats had 59 points, 37.3 field goal percentage, 11.1 3-point percentage, and an 80.0 precent from the free throw line.
This week the (1-3) men play the Paul Quinn Tiger at home on Tuesday and then on Saturday the men will play the Florida A&M University Rattlers (2-5). The (2-2) Lady Jags play Ohio State Buckeyes on December the 7th. Upnext for the men’s team will be Paul Quinn tonight at 7PM.
Senior guard Cortnei Purnell block a shot attempt during Southen’s matchup versus Bethune-Cookman on November 22 at the Southern University Mini Dome.
