Southern beats winless Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 62-48

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  -  Leave it to Sandy Pugh to put it plainly. Saturday afternoon in the F.G. Clark Activity Center, her Southern Unversity women’s basketball team won for the fifth time in six games, pulling away for a 62-48 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. That part was good.

The Jaguars’ play, however, was hardly crisp. “Was I worried? No,” she said. “Was I upset? Yes.” It was easy to understand why.

Facing a persistent-but-winless team in UAPB, the Jaguars held the Lady Lions without a field goal over the first 6 minutes, 17 seconds. Southern committed only nine turnovers and had a 52-41 advantage in rebounds. But the Jaguars shot only 32 percent from the field and rarely looked sharp on either end of the floor.

Only two players, Kendra Coleman (11 points) and Laneisha Stephens (10 points), scored in double figures. Adrian Sanders added eight points, but the three players combined to go 6-for-31 from the floor.

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Southern University Dancing Dolls at 2012 Super Bowl Half-Time Performance with Madonna.

The Dancing Dolls are a unit of the Southern University Marching Band also known as "The Human JukeBox" from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lawrence Jackson, Southern University's band director, said Madonna discovered the Dancing Dolls after watching a video of one of their performances on the popular streaming video website. "It goes to show the power of YouTube," Jackson said with a laugh.

After three trips to New York to practice with Madonna, the Dancing Dolls finally got their chance to show the world their talents at halftime of a game that has drawn more than 100 million viewers the past two years."