BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern's shot at a regular-season championship has ended.
In a 90-88 loss to Texas Southern on Thursday at the F.G. Clark Activity Center, Southern (14-16, 10-7) failed to stay in contention for the Southwestern Athletic Conference title with a seventh loss.
Southern, Texas Southern and Prairie View, which the Jaguars will host to end the regular season on Saturday, sat in a three-way tie for third place at 10-6 before Thursday. Southern's loss is expected to drop Southern to fourth or fifth in the conference.
First-place Grambling State (16-14, 12-5), which defeated Alabama A&M on Thursday, must win Saturday at Alabama State to clinch the regular-season championship. Because of an NCAA Academic Progress Report sanction, Grambling is ineligible to compete in the postseason, which includes next week's SWAC tournament.
The Jaguars (14-16, 10-7 SWAC) fell in four of their first five conference games before winning eight of the next 10 games through the heart of their conference schedule, good enough to move into second place before Saturday's loss at Alcorn State.
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