Southern men begin SWAC play

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The Southern men’s basketball logged a lot of miles during its non-conference schedule as it prepared for Southwestern Athletic Conference play.

It’s road games included short trips to New Orleans and Oxford, Miss., longer trips to Niceville, Fla., and Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Waco, Texas; and even longer trips to Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming and Hawaii.

Now the Jaguars (3-11) are home to begin SWAC play against Prairie View at 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

“We had a very tough preseason schedule,” senior guard Tre Lynch said before practice Friday. “Once you get into conference (play), every team is working hard to try and get that one goal, which is to win the championship — regular season and tournament. So coming into it, you can feel the energy.”

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