Tournament Season Approaches: Southern ready to contend

Southern finally fell from their undefeated home streak when they lost against Prairie View on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at the same time when Devon Gales returned home.
On the time machine, Southern first took down Texas Southern one of the top dogs of the Southwestern Athletic Conference on Thursday, March 3 with a score of 84-79.
That snapped the three game losing streak.
Senior guard, Adrian Rodgers, spoke for his nature after his performance, “The game just came to me, I was just being aggressive.”
Head coach Roman Banks credited the win to great practice, “We had about good three or four days of practice.”
Redshirt junior, Shawn Prudhomme scored 28 points and Rodgers scored 25 points to lead the Jaguars to their graced win.
The Jaguars went on to play their final home game and it all came crashing down.
The undefeated home streak came to an end Saturday night against Prairie View University at the F.G Clark Activity Center. It was a hard fought battle from both teams, but the sad part is there has to be a winner.
For the first time all season, the boys knew what it felt like to lose at home. The Jags started off with a strong statement and gained the lead, but because of bad offensive possessions the Jags lost the lead to the Panthers.
Once Prairie View gained the lead they never gave it back to Southern. The lead just kept growing and growing to the point, where the lead was close to 20.
The Jags rallied together to bring the lead back down to just five before the half was over. When the Jaguars came out from the break everything seemed to be working well for them. They found themselves down by one point. Even that was still not enough; the Jags lost control and found them back down by a double digit deficit.
It was at this moment Prudhomme flipped the switched and took control of the game. While he was taking control he a total of four three’s and was fouled on one of the three pointers to make it a four-point play.
However, Prudhomme’s effort was not enough to overcome the Panthers. The Jags lost to Prairie View by the score of 71-79. Prudhomme had 15 points and a steal to compliment his scoring output.
Senior Point guard, Christopher Hyder, stated that, “it’s always bad when we lose, but we just have to learn from it and get ready for the tournament.”
The Jags will play Alabama State in the first round of the SWAC tournament March 10.
The SWAC tournament will be held in Houston, Texas and the Jags will battle to once again gather a championship that seems so far away.