TSU returns to full strength for SWAC tournament push

HEAD COACH MIKE DAVIS

HOUSTON, Texas -- Texas Southern enters the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament as the No. 3 seed and the top-scoring team in the conference, led by two of the top five scorers in the league.

Yet somehow the Tigers (12-19, 12-6 in SWAC) missed out on any all-conference honors or accolades.

"It's definitely surprising. We may be the only conference where the leading scorer didn't make any team. I think they definitely missed something out there," said Donte Clark, the third-leading scorer in the SWAC with 18.3 points per game.

Beyond Clark, guard Demontrae Jefferson (24.1 points per game) and Trayvon Reed, who led the SWAC in blocks per game (2.8) and finished second in rebounding (8.8), also were snubbed, although Jefferson only played in 71 percent of the team's games. (The SWAC doesn't officially consider statistics for players involved in less than 75 percent of their team's games).

"You're happy for all the guys that made it; you don't want to take away anything from them. But I thought that we had some guys on our team who should've been on the all-conference team," coach Mike Davis said. "The winning is there and the scoring is there."

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