Sunday, March 14, 2010

Southern University women defeat Alabama State for tourney title

BOSSIER CITY, LA — What, exactly, is a picture worth? Consider the scene at 7:13 p.m. Saturday night inside the CenturyTel Center. Zoom in to center court, where the Southern women’s basketball team gathered at the end of their 60-47 victory over Alabama State. The championship game of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament was over, and the Jaguars had won it all.

Hannah Kador, the former McKinley High School standout who earned tournament MVP honors, nearly crashed to the floor on her backside. Kador was on the business end of a tackle-football-style hug, administered by teammate Jamie Floyd. A few feet away, guards Tenesha Brown and Tiffany Foster each threw an arm around the other’s shoulder, like old buddies from the playground. Eventually, they broke out championship T-shirts and caps, and they gathered, holding index fingers toward the roof, posing for a team picture. What was that picture worth?

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