{"id":3270,"date":"2014-02-13T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2014-02-13T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:54:09","slug":"jsu-mens-and-womens-basketball-teams-fall-to-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/jsu-mens-and-womens-basketball-teams-fall-to-southern\/","title":{"rendered":"JSU men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams fall to Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JSU girls fall to Southern. Photo: Dominique McCraney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bridget Robinson
\n<\/strong>MC301 Contributor
\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alisa Ross\u2019 game high of 20 points and 6 rebounds wasn\u2019t enough for the Jackson State University Lady Tigers fell short to Southern University 70-55 on Feb. 10 at the Lee E. Williams Athletic and Assembly Center.<\/p>\n

Jackson State dug a 17-3 hole at the beginning of the game. At the 4:45 mark in the first half, the Southern University Lady Jaguars led by as much as 24 points. The Lady Tigers did not take the led the entire game.<\/p>\n

Jackson State shooting percentage decreased from the past three games that granted the Lady Tigers victories, shooting only 25.5% from the field (14-55) and 27.3% from the three point line (3-11).<\/p>\n

The Lady Jaguars outscored JSU 28-22 from the paint, 24-11 off of turnovers and 6-2 off of fast break points. However, Jackson State bench outscored Southern 26-18.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shot 25.5% from the floor but it all starts with our shot selection. We have to take higher percentage shots and focus on putting the ball in the basket,\u201d said Ross.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Jefferson led Southern with a double-double scoring 13 points and collecting 12 rebounds. Kendra Coleman received 13 points and Adrian Sanders collected 12 points and 6 rebounds.<\/p>\n

With the loss, The Lady Tigers fall to an 8-12 overall and 7-4 Southwestern Athletic Conference record.<\/p>\n

In men\u2019s action, JSU Tigers men\u2019s team also fell to Southern 63-68, despite the 20 point efforts of Julysses Nobles.<\/p>\n

With the loss, Jackson State falls to an 8-15 overall and 4-7 in Southwestern Athletic Conference record.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars jumped out of the gate out-scoring JSU 8-14 at the 11:00 mark in the first half. However, JSU did not drop their head and cut the led 15-16 from Brandon West and Taylor Derell grabbing rebounds and put-backs.<\/p>\n

In the second half, Southern went on a 6-0 run (43-57) at the 7:32 mark. Nobles went on a scoring spree, cutting into the Jaguars lead 63-66.<\/p>\n

Despite Jackson State\u2019s efforts, the Tigers could not cut into Southern\u2019s lead enough to grant them a win even though JSU outscored Southern 24-20 points in the paint and 22-16 off of turnovers.\u00a0 Brandon West scored collected a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds and Derell Taylor received 14 points.<\/p>\n

For Southern, Calvin Godfrey led his team with 15 points and 9 rebounds. Yondarius Johnson and Tre Lynch both scored 15 points.<\/p>\n

Jackson State will resume action Saturday Feb. 15 at Prairie View A & M University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bridget Robinson MC301 Contributor Staff Writer Alisa Ross\u2019 game high of 20 points and 6 rebounds wasn\u2019t enough for the Jackson State University Lady Tigers fell short to Southern University 70-55 on Feb. 10 at the Lee E. Williams Athletic and Assembly Center. Jackson State dug a 17-3 hole at the beginning of the game. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}