Southern seeks to end season a high note

 
After a sluggish performance against Alcorn State, the men’s basketball team is looking to bounce back and finish strong this weekend playing, their final two games of the season against Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern.​
The Jaguars take on PVAMU tonight at 8 p.m. at the F.G. Clark Activity Center and play TSU Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
Last Saturday, the Jaguars (15-14, 11-5 Southwestern Athletic Conference) were not prepared for the game plan of Alcorn State (9-19, 6-10 SWAC) and fell 60-40, but first-year head coach Roman Banks wants to get that loss out of the heads of his players and focus them on the new task at hand which is winning these last two games and giving the Jaguars their first wining season since 2005-06 season.​
“We don’t have anything else to play for, this is our tournament and we have to finish up well at home I thought it was important to focus on this week,” said Banks addressing the media on the importance to win their last two games. ​
Banks was address by the media about the upcoming Saturday game against Texas Southern and only address that subject for a brief moment saying that he wanted to take these last two games one at a time.​
Prairie View A&M (13-16, 9-7 SWAC) lost to the Jaguars earlier in the season 73-65 and are currently in fourth place in the SWAC standings and are looking to take down the second-place Jaguars.​
For the most part the this basketball season has been a revitalizing one, students came out in support of the team, and the Southern basketball program needed this support.​
Coach Banks said he expected to win a few games and sneak up on a few teams and mainly wanted to focus on getting the program on the right track and he certainly doing just that.​
“If anybody ever ask any of us if we thought that we would be here at this point playing for second in our league and had a chance at first basically the first three quarters of the season I don’t think any of us would have thought that,” said Banks. ​
The Jaguar basketball team have been battle tested not just this year but the for the past four seasons, these players haven’t really had the taste of success at the collegiate level. ​
“More than anything we have to bring some more extra energy into this week’s contest at home and try to finish out energized with an renewed spirit,” said Banks addressing what the Jaguars need to do in order to taste that success that they want. ​
When Banks was asked about how the fans have been this season for the Jaguars he said “Jaguar nation has been great this season we have gotten excitement back in the building and hopefully as it ​relates to recruiting the fan base will come back out and be here back the house for our last home games.”​