Southern falls to Alabama State 63-59 in OT

HEAD COACH ROMAN BANKS
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Southern men’s basketball coach Roman Banks and his staff lingered in the hallway outside the visitors locker room after the game Monday night in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.

Banks was trying to find the right words with which to address his team after a 63-59 overtime loss to Alabama State that determined first place in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

It was a game in which the Jaguars led by as many as 17 points in the first half, had a chance for a tie-breaking score in the waning seconds of the second half, and thought they had secured possession for a possible tying or winning basket at the end of overtime only to see the officials rule a held ball that went the Hornets way rather than a Jaguars timeout.

“You want to calm down and make sue that you say the right things,” Banks said. “They didn’t intentionally miss a shot or intentionally throw a bad pass. We were a little inconsistent offensively, but other than that, we played a pretty good ballgame.”

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