Jan. 31, 2010
Final Stats
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Jazz Williams scored 20 points and Doug Scott had a double-double in leading the Southern University Jaguars to a 84-75 win over Alcorn State on Saturday evening at the FG Clark Activity Center.
The win snapped a five game losing streak for the SU Jags, dating back to a 57-46 loss to Jackson State. Southern (4-17, 2-7 SWAC) moves to within 1 game of the eighth and final spot of teams that make the SWAC Tournament on Shreveport, LA in March. Alcorn State remains winless, and falls to 0-22, 0-9 SWAC.
Alcorn's Ian Francis dropped in a layup to put Alcorn State ahead 17-12. But Jazz Williams then hit one of his five 3-pointers in the contest, sparking a 17-5 Southern run, and the Jaguars led the rest of the way.
Southern led by seven at halftime and outscored the Braves 45-43 to seal it in the second. The Jags were paced by 18 bench points and 11 points off of Alcorn State turnovers.
Southern scored 21 points off of 16 Alcorn State turnovers, and the Jaguars had the advantage in bench scoring 41-20.
"We needed this one," said fifth-year coach Rob Spivery, whose team would have slipped into a tie for last place with a loss to Alcorn.
"We've been working on being more disciplined in everything that we do, in particular, offensively," Spivery said.
JaMarkus Holt paced the Braves with 16 points, Francis had 12 and Brandon Rogers finished with 10.
Four Jaguars scored in double figures, led by fifth-year senior Jazz Williams, who broke out of a slump to score a game-high 20 points. Douglas Scott had 14 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, and freshman Madut Bol scored a season/career-high 12 points off the bench.
Nicks Walls and Jameel Grace combined for 17 assists, three rebounds, three steals and only five turnovers.
The Jaguars' 84 points matched a season high, when they score that amount in an 86-84 loss to Talladega College on Dec. 28.
The Jaguars are idle Monday, and begin the second half of SWAC play February 6th at Grambling State.
