BATON ROUGE, LA – After 312 days Southern (2-4, 2-0 SWAC) men's basketball team returned to the friendly home confines of the F.G. Clark Activity Center picking up its second straight conference win rolling past University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff (3-9, 2-1 SWAC) with a 88-53 victory Saturday afternoon. The margin of victory was the Jaguars' largest in the Southwestern Athletic Conference under Head Coach Sean Woods overtaking a 95-62 win over Mississippi Valley State on Feb. 17, 2020.

SU was led by Graduate transfer Harrison Henderson who recorded his second straight double-double scoring a career high 19 points and 13 rebounds. Redshirt senior Ahsante Shivers finished with 15 points. He was 5-of-7 (71.4%) from the field, 3-of-4 (75%) on 3-pointers and was 2-of-2 (100%) from the free throw line. Junior Samkelo Cele had a career-high finishing with 12 points.

Southern and UAPB traded baskets in the first few minutes of the first half as SU was 1-of-5 shooting and trailed the Lions 9-8. Cele came off the bench, and immediately connected on back-to-back 3-pointers with 12:51 left in the half starting the Jaguars on a 21-6 run. Henderson's 3-pointer gave Southern a 40-23 lead with 2:47 before half. On the next possession Shivers added a 3-pointer from the right wing extending SU leads 43-24. Henderson made two free throws with :27 seconds left scoring 16 first half points and extending SU leads into the locker room 45-24.

In the second half the Jaguars picked up right where they left, stretching the lead to 56-27 and extended the led by 30 points and never looked back.  

Southern shot 63% from the field (29-46), 68.8% from behind the arc (11-16), shot 67.9% from the free throw line (19-28) while UAPB was 26.1% from the floor and SU defense held the Lions to 28.6% from behind the three point line. SU out rebounded the Lions 38-19. 

Shaun Doss Jr. led UAPB with 18 points and Joshuwan Johnson added 16 points for the Lions.

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The Jaguars will return to action on Monday, Jan. 18 when they host Mississippi Valley State at 4:30 pm in the F.G. Clark Activity Center

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