Game Notes

Game 23 • South Alabama Jaguars (15-7, 8-3) vs. Arkansas State Red Wolves (12-11, 7-5)
February 10, 2018 • 1:05 p.m. (C.T.) • Mitchell Center • Mobile, Ala.

THE COACHES
South Alabama
Terry Fowler (Lane [Tenn.], 1986)
Record at USA: 54-86 (5th year)
Overall Record: 261-264 (18th year)

Arkansas State
Brian Boyer
(Missouri Western, '93)
Record at Arkansas State: 306-254 (19)
Overall Record: 306-254 (19)


LAST GAME.
South Alabama was defeated by Little Rock, 47-35, on Thursday in Mobile.

NEXT GAME
South Alabama kicks off the Carolina swing at Appalachian State on Thursday. Tipoff is scheduled for 4:00 p.m (C.T.)

ON THE AIR
On the web: http://usajaguars.com/watch/?Live=1016&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=196097
 
RANKINGS (Games played through Feb. 8)
USA: #110 RPI
Arkansas State: #215 RPI

THE SERIES
The Jags have fallen in the last seven meetings with the Red Wolves. Their last win over Arkansas State came on Dec. 29, 2012.
 
OPENING TIP
- The Jags saw a five-game win streak end in a loss on Thursday to Little Rock.
- 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 626 blocks. The team only had 697 blocks the previous nine seasons combined.
- South Alabama is 9-3 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.
- South Alabama leads the SBC in four statistical categories, blocks (156), blocks per game (7.1), defensive rebounds (29.7), and defensive field goal percentage holding opponents to 35.0 percent from the field, good for 10th 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 Mississippi.
- 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 18 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 and Antoinette Lewis has scored double-figures in four games.
- South Alabama has five scorers averaging seven or more points per contest, Ellis (14.5), Jones (13.0), Shaforia Kines (8.0), Lewis (7.5), and Perrymond (7.0).
- USA has had three players record three blocks in a game this season, Ellis 13 times, Lewis four times 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 2-6 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.
Arkansas State is 12-11, including 7-5 in SBC play, this season.
- The Red Wolves are coming off a 95-78 loss at Troy on Thursday.
- Akasha Westbrook leads the SBC in steals with 53 and leads the team in scoring with 13.4 points per game.
- Arkansas State is has been outscored by its opponents by a margin of 4.7 points per game.
- The Red Wolves have 1.1 turnover margin.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Terry Fowler
On what the team needs to do to rebound from a two game losing streak: "We have to be able to put the ball in the basket. I think our mindset is good. We are not overreacting to this. We just have to play better. That's all it comes down to."
 
On Arkansas State: "They are tough and tenacious on the defensive end. They really get after you. Offensively they want to score the basketball and push it in transition. They have great individual one-on-one players that give you a lot of different things we have to defend tomorrow. They have a lot of ball screen action. We have to be prepared.."
 
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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