Southern, which began this season as an underestimated team with unproven talent and few lofty expectations, clinched the Southwestern Athletic Conference regular-season title with a 96-58 win against Prairie View on Saturday.
"I'm just happy to see it happen for them," Pugh said.
Pugh's finger aimed high signified the end of a remarkable season — something perhaps she expected in October when not many others did. The league’s coaches and sports information directors, who are as well-versed in the happenings of SWAC basketball as anyone, chose Southern — which will hold their celebratory net-cutting ceremony Sunday — to finish fourth in their preseason poll.
“In 19 years, I think when it’s all set and done, this team has potential to go down as one of my best teams ever," Pugh said on Nov. 10.
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