'This conference is growing': Southern women's to begin competitive SWAC play vs. Texas Southern on Jan. 1

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- In October, Southern star forward Briana Green didn’t worry about it.

Then, when the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s coaches and sports information directions released its preseason poll, predicting the Jaguars to finish fourth in a league of 10 teams, Green brushed it off with a full season of basketball ahead.

There were people to prove wrong.

As of late December, days before the Jaguars begin conference play at 5 p.m. Monday at Texas Southern in Houston, Green’s words are a bit more pungent.

“I know what’s going to happen at the end of the season,” Green said, “that’s all I’m going to say. It should be a very, very, very exciting season,” she added months ago.

Like the SWAC’s men’s league, Texas Southern was also slated to finish first in the women’s sphere, besting No. 2 Grambling by three first-place votes in a sure-to-be contested race among multiple schools for the SWAC’s crown.

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