Game 28 • South Alabama Jaguars (16-11, 9-7) at Georgia Southern Eagles (5-22, 2-14)
March 1, 2018 • 4:00 p.m. (C.T.) • Hanner Fieldhouse • Statesboro, Ga.

THE COACHES
South Alabama
Terry Fowler (Lane [Tenn.], 1986)
Record at USA: 55-90 (5th year)
Overall Record: 262-268 (18th year)

Georgia Southern
Gary Brodhead
(SW Missouri State, '77)
Record at Georgia Southern: 20-40 (2)
Overall Record: 483-366 (22)
 
LAST GAME.
South Alabama fell on Senior Day to Louisiana Saturday, 59-56.

NEXT GAME
The Jags conclude the regular season at Georgia State on Saturday.

ON THE AIR
On the web: http://gseagles.com/watch/?Live=1393&type=Live
On the air: https://www.iheart.com/live/995-the-jag-mobile-7117/; 99.5 FM The Jag, pbp JT Crabtree
Live Stats: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=189189

RANKINGS (Games played through Feb. 26)
USA: #167 RPI
GS: #326 RPI

THE SERIES
The Jags tied up the series at 7-7 with a victory on New Year's Eve earlier this season.
 
OPENING TIP
- The Jags fell to Louisiana on Saturday, 59-56, on Senior Day.
- Antoinette Lewis collected her second double-double with 23 points and 13 rebounds, the second 20 and 10 game by a Jag this season.
- Lewis was named SBC player of the week on Feb. 26 by the
- South Alabama is two wins away from the 600th in program history.
- Against Coastal Carolina (Jan. 18), Chyna Ellis' 10 rejections were a career-high and is now the individual record for a women's basketball player at the Mitchell Center.
- Since Ellis has been at South Alabama, the Jaguars have had 675 blocks. The team only had 697 blocks the previous nine seasons combined.
- South Alabama is 6-6 on the road and 10-5 at home this season.
- South Alabama received a vote in the USA Today Top 25 Coaches' Poll during week 9 of the poll, marking the first time since the 2008-09 season the Jags have received a vote in the poll.
- Perrymond recorded a career-high 9 assists, the most by a Jag this season, when they faced Central Arkansas.
- South Alabama has had at least two players score 10 or more point per game in every contest except for one.
- USA has had 10 20 or more point scoring efforts this season. Ellis has had six, including a career-high 24 points against Southern Mississippi.
- Ellis has 10 double-doubles this season and Antoinette Lewis has one.
- Ellis has had double-digit points in 21 games, while recording double-digit rebounds in 11.
- Jones has scored in double-digits 17 times this season, while Shaforia Kines has nine, Lewis seven, Genesis Perrymond and Erin Autio have scored double-figures in six games.
- South Alabama has five scorers averaging seven or more points per contest, Ellis (13.4), Jones (12.1), Shaforia Kines (8.4), Lewis (8.3), and Perrymond (7.0).
- USA has had three players record three blocks in a game this season, Ellis 15 times, Lewis and LaNeetra Guillory four times.
- Jones has made 52 three-pointers this season, the second-most by a freshman in program history, and is in the top-10 for freshman scoring in a season with 314 points.
- Lewis has the sixth most blocks by a freshman in a season with 30.
- Ellis became the 19th women's basketball player in program history reach 1,000 points earlier this season.
- Ellis has 317 blocks for her career and is in the top-10 for blocks for a season during all four-years of her career at South Alabama. No other player has done that in any category in program history.
- South Alabama is 5-4 in games decided by single digits.
- The Jags have won 11 of their 16 games by double digits, including six by 20 or more points.
- USA is 11-0 when outrebounding its opponent.
- When scoring 70 or more, South Alabama is 9-1.
- The Jags have only given up a halftime or third-quarter lead three-times this season.
- Georgia Southern is 5-22 with a 2-14 SBC record.
- The Eagles are on a four-game losing streak.
- Nakol Franks and Alexis Brown are their scorers averaging 8 points per game.
- GS has been outscored by an average of 13.9 per contest.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Terry Fowler
On the loss on Senior Day: "We had the wide open three by Genesis [Perrymond] it didn't fall and then Savannah's [Jones] didn't fall. It was an even game. We played really well at their [Louisiana's] place when we are both pretty evenly matched. We were tied to start the fourth quarter. The game was back-and-forth. We had every opportunity to win the ball game."
 
On Antoinette Lewis' play: "She has really settled in as a true-freshman. She's been getting really comfortable, feeling what the defense is giving her, finishing at the basket and really putting the pressure on the defense."
 
On Georgia Southern: "They are playing younger players right now. Senior Sierra Butler, who played against us earlier in the season, got a concussion. They are playing a bunch of freshman and sophomores and are a young basketball team. They the ability to shoot and score the basketball well. We have to dominate them on the boards and the defensive end of the floor."
 
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