BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern coach Sandy Pugh’s remembers the feeling of playing in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament to end her 1985-86 season at Northwestern State. The fact that the Demons lost to Idaho didn’t matter. It was March, and she was playing.“We got beat, but I always remember how exciting that was,” Pugh said Tuesday. “And the excitement that I’m playing in March. I try to pass that along to my players. At this stage in the game, everybody’s great. Doesn’t matter who you play … you’ve got to bring it.”
This year as Southern's coach, Pugh’s returning to the postseason. Her regular-season championship Southern team will meet Alabama (17-13) at 7 p.m. Wednesday inside the Tide’s Coleman Coliseum in the opening round of the 2018 WNIT.
Southern (17-13) automatically qualified for the WNIT after winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s regular-season title and not being selected for the NCAA tournament.
The Jaguars’ game time, opponent and location were revealed late Monday, creating a quick and abrupt turnaround for Southern prior to Wednesday’s tipoff.
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