Texas Southern's Joyce Kennerson scored a career-high 30 points as she led the Lady Tigers to a 64-49 win over visiting Alcorn State

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By Kristina McKay

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HOUSTON, TEXAS (March 5, 2017) At TSU's Health and Physical Education Arena, Kennerson shot 10-of-19 from the floor and made three out of her five 3-point attempts; she also handed out a game-high five assists. The win, coupled with Southern's loss in Prairie View, guaranteed Texas Southern (19-9, 13-4 SWAC) will finish no lower than third place in the Southwestern Athletic Conference standings when the regular season ends Saturday.

Alcorn State (9-19) fell to 9-8 with the loss and was unable to clinch the No. 5 seed in the Toyota SWAC Tournament which begins Tuesday. The Lady Tigers are currently tied for first place in the SWAC with Grambling State, which lost at home Thursday to Alabama State. Grambling owns the tiebreaker with TSU; the Houstonians have a mathematical shot of winning the regular season title if they defeat Southern on Saturday,

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but would also need Grambling to lose at home to the 2-24 Alabama A&M Lady Bulldogs, who have yet to defeat and NCAA opponent this season. TSU still controls their own destiny in terms of claiming a share of the regular season title and the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament. 

Update:  since they defeated Southern 58-46 on March 4^th, TSU won 20 regular season games for first time since 1982. TSU finished tied for first place with Grambling State. The two teams split their season series, with each team winning at home, but Grambling held the tiebreaker advantage on point differential, and will enter the Toyota SWAC Tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Lady Tigers of TSU claim the No. 2 seed, and will host in-state rival Prairie View A&M at Texas Southern's Health & Physical Education Arena.