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• Texas Southern closes out its 2024-25 regular season at SWAC rival Prairie View A&M on Saturday afternoon at 4:30 p.m.
• TSU split its last road trip in Mississippi but its tournament seeding is still up in their air due to the amount of teams within one or two games. TSU sits in fourth place as of now as a win would clinch no lower than fourth. Due to projected tiebreaker scenarios if both Jackson State and Bethune-Cookman finishes 12-6 along with TSU, TSU would still remain in fourth. A loss opens the door to multiple scenarios as four teams could finish 11-7.
• Texas Southern fell in the finals of the 2024 SWAC Tournament last season and participated in the CIT as they fell to Tarleton State in the opening round.
• TSU returns two starters from last season and eight letterwinners as they lost seven lettermen. The Tigers added seven newcomers to its roster in the offseason as six were added via the transfer portal. The TSU men's basketball duo of Grayson Carter and Kenny Hunter were named to the 2024-25 Preseason All-SWAC Second Team. Hunter was also tabbed the league's Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.
• TSU head coach Johnny Jones is 8-7 lifetime against Prairie View A&M and PVAMU's Byron Smith, a former assistant at TSU in 2009-10.
• Since 2012, TSU is 20-12 against PVAMU and has won six of the past eight games against the Panthers. PVAMU has had its most success against TSU in Prairie View as PVAMU is 10-16 in the William Nicks Building since 1997 while losing 14 of the past 23 games. However, TSU has won the past two-of-three games there as a win would mark the first time since 2007 and 2008 with back-toback wins at PVAMU.
• Picked seventh in the SWAC Preseason poll, PVAMU had a competitive non-conference slate and won three of its first four SWAC games. However, PVAMU has dropped 10 straight and 11 of the past 13 to fall into 10th place. Their tournament fate is somewhat unsettled as one UAPB win this weekend coupled with a loss would trigger a tiebreaker scenario for the final seed.
• TSU, which is led by seventh-year head coach Johnny Jones, has won three-of-the-past four SWAC Tournament Championships and enters the 2024-25 season looking to earn its eighth NCAA Tournament bid over the past 12 years.
• TSU made its fourth consecutive postseason under Jones and third straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022-23. Jones went 24-14 in his inaugural year as head coach with three Power 5 conference wins. TSU fell in the finals of the 2019 SWAC Tournament and advanced to the semifinals of the CIT in 2019. In 2019-20, the Tigers made it back to the semifinals of the SWAC Tournament after a third-place regular season finish but saw the season end abruptly due to COVID-19. TSU won the SWAC Tournament and First Four contest in 2021 and was the first SWAC team to beat a ranked opponent from the SEC in 2021 at Florida. TSU claimed another Power 5 non-conference win against Arizona State in 2022.
• Jones is 61-39 all-time in the month of March and 31-13 at TSU
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