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| Courtesy: Southern University Athletics |
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- All of Southern’s teams have been under an NCAA postseason ban for more than a year, but none has felt its impact as much as the women’s tennis team.
The Jaguars will go for their sixth consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament title this weekend in New Orleans, knowing that even if they win they will be unable to accept the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA’s for a second consecutive season.
Last season there was hope that the university might be able to supply the NCAA with sufficient documentation on student-athletes’ Academic Progress Rates to get the ban lifted in time for the NCAAs.
But two days after the SWAC tournament and just a few days before the Jaguars’ annual “watch party” for the unveiling of the NCAA field, coach Jeffrey Conyers told the players they couldn’t go and runner-up Jackson State would go in their place.
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