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• Texas Southern returns home for a contest against Florida A&M on Saturday at 5 p.m.
• TSU's seven-game winning streak was snapped at UAPB on Tuesday night in the final minutes. Despite the loss, they're still in sole possession of second place.
• 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.
• This marks the lone meeting this season between both teams due to the SWAC's unbalanced schedule as TSU has faced FAMU only three times since 1980. TSU leads the all-time series 4-2.
• TSU head coach Johnny Jones is 2-1 lifetime against Florida A&M.
• Picked 11th in the SWAC Preseason poll, Florida A&M is tied for fifth in the SWAC with a 5-4 mark. Led by first-year head coach Patrick Carey II, FAMU lost its first three SWAC games but reeled off five straight wins before dropping a 67-66 contest against Alabama State on Monday night. FAMU leads the SWAC in three-point percentage (.351) and three-pointers made (9.6) while having two of the top-10 scorers in Sterling Young (15.3) and Milton Matthews (13.3). Both McClain and TSU's Kavion McClain are the top two three-point shooters in the SWAC.
• FAMU's Shaqir O'Neal spent three seasons at TSU before transferring to FAMU in the offseason.
• 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 99-83 all-time in the month of February and 31-13 at TSU.
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