Game 22 • South Alabama Jaguars (15-6, 8-2) vs. Little Rock Trojans (14-8, 11-0)
February 8, 2018 • 11:00 a.m. (C.T.) • Mitchell Center • Mobile, Ala.

THE COACHES
South Alabama
Terry Fowler (Lane [Tenn.], 1986)
Record at USA: 54-85 (5th year)
Overall Record: 261-263 (18th year)

Little Rock
Joe Foley
(Central Arkansas, '79)
Record at Little Rock: 303-161 (15)
Overall Record: 759-242 (31)

LAST GAME.
South Alabama fell at Troy, 82-71.

NEXT GAME
The Jaguars host Arkansas State on Saturday. Opening tip is scheduled for 1:05 p.m.

ON THE AIR
On the web: http://usajaguars.com/watch/?Live=1015&type=Archive
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=196096
 
RANKINGS (Games played through Feb. 6)
USA: #102 RPI
Little Rock: #126 RPI

THE SERIES
The Jags trail in the all-time series 12-16. Little Rock has taken the last six meetings with the Jags last win coming on Feb. 1, 2014.
 
OPENING TIP
- The Jaguars dropped a halftime lead for the first time this season in a loss at Troy on Saturday.
- The loss ended a six-game USA win-streak.
- South Alabama is three wins away from the program's 600th win.
- USA is 3-3 during Kids' Day games.
- The Jaguars are on a five-game home win streak.
- The Jags' 8-2 SBC record is the best in program history since the conference expanded before the 1991-92 season.
- Against Coastal Carolina, 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 622 blocks. The team only had 697 blocks the previous nine seasons combined.
- South Alabama is 9-2 at home.
- 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 assist the most by a Jag this season, when they faced Central Arkansas.
- South Alabama leads the SBC in five statistical categories, assists per game (16.7), blocks (152), blocks per game (7.2), defensive rebounds (29.7), and defensive field goal percentage holding opponents to 34.9 percent from the field, good for 9th in the nation.
- South Alabama has had at least two players score 10 or more point per game in every contest except for one.
- USA has had nine 20 or more point scoring efforts this season. Ellis has had six, including a career-high 24 points against Southern Mississippiissippi.
- Ellis has led South Alabama in scoring in 10 games. The senior center has eight double-doubles this season.
- Ellis has had double-digit points in 17 games, while recording double-digit rebounds in nine.
- Jones has scored in double-digits 14 times this season, while Shaforia Kines has six, and Genesis Perrymond and Erin Autio have done so five times.
- Kines recorded a career-high five steals at Troy on Feb. 3.
- South Alabama has six scorers averaging seven or more points per contest, Ellis (14.6), Jones (13.6), Shaforia Kines (8.4), Antoinette Lewis (7.3), Perrymond (7.3) and Erin Autio (7.0).
- USA has had three players record three blocks in a game this season, Ellis 13 times, Lewis and LaNeetra Guillory three times.
- Jones has made 48 three-pointers this season, the second-most by a freshman in program history.
- Ellis became the 19th women's basketball player in program history reach 1,000 points earlier this season.
- Ellis has 301 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 5-2 in games decided by single digits.
- The Jags have won 10 of their 15 games by double digits, including six by 20 or more points.
- The Jags have trailed at halftime seven-times this season and are 2-5 when trailing at the half.
- USA is 6-4 on the road and will not play a neutral site game until the SBC Tournament in New Orleans.
- USA is 10-0 when outrebounding its opponent.
- When scoring 60 or more points South Alabama is 13-3, including 8-1 when scoring 70 or more.
- Little Rock is 14-8, including 11-0 in SBC play, this season.
- The Trojans are on an 11-game win streak.
- LR holds its opponents to 53.5 points per game, to lead the conference.
- Ronjanae DeGray leads the Trojans averaging 14.3 points per contest.
- Little Rock is on a seven-game win streak against the Jaguars.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Terry Fowler
On last weekend's loss at Troy: "Our locker room was really disappointed. You win six straight and then all of a sudden you lose one. You don't like that taste in your mouth. We have to use it as a learning experience. We have to finish games and play 40 minutes."
 
On Little Rock: "Little Rock is well coached. They play extremely hard. They do what they do really well by limiting possessions and scoring with their defense."
 
On the atmosphere for Kids' Day tomorrow: "It will be loud and you won't be able to hear. We are working on our communication in practice. It's going to be one of those games that it is going to be difficult to communicate."
 
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