TSUSports.com: Men's Basketball Heads To Huntsville To Face Alabama A&M On Saturday

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• Texas Southern is back in action Saturday afternoon on the road at Alabama A&M for a 4 p.m. tip. in Huntsville, Ala.

• TSU enters the contest on a four-game winning streak as they're in a three-way tie for second entering Saturday's game.

• Texas Southern fell in the finals of the 2024 SWAC Tournament last season and participated in the CIT as they fell to Tarleton State in the opening round.

• TSU returns two starters from last season and eight letterwinners as they lost seven lettermen. The Tigers added seven newcomers to its roster in the offseason as six were added via the transfer portal. The TSU men's basketball duo of Grayson Carter and Kenny Hunter were named to the 2024-25 Preseason All-SWAC Second Team. Hunter was also tabbed the league's Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.

• TSU head coach Johnny Jones is 12-0 lifetime against Alabama A&M. TSU has dominated the series against Alabama A&M recently as the Tigers have won 21 straight and 32 of the past 33 match-ups. AAMU's last win over TSU was on Feb. 1, 2014.

• Picked ninth in the SWAC Preseason poll, AAMU won its first two SWAC games but has dropped three straight as they're coming off a close loss to rival Alabama State last Saturday. AAMU ranks third in scoring offense as AC Bryant leads the way with 14.5 points and 4.9 rebounds followed by 11.2 points and 5.5 rebounds from Chad Moodie.

• TSU, which is led by seventh-year head coach Johnny Jones, has won three-of-the-past four SWAC Tournament Championships and enters the 2024-25 season looking to earn its eighth NCAA Tournament bid over the past 12 years.

• TSU made its fourth consecutive postseason under Jones and third straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022-23. Jones went 24-14 in his inaugural year as head coach with three Power 5 conference wins. TSU fell in the finals of the 2019 SWAC Tournament and advanced to the semifinals of the CIT in 2019. In 2019-20, the Tigers made it back to the semifinals of the SWAC Tournament after a third-place regular season finish but saw the season end abruptly due to COVID-19. TSU won the SWAC Tournament and First Four contest in 2021 and was the first SWAC team to beat a ranked opponent from the SEC in 2021 at Florida. TSU claimed another Power 5 non-conference win against Arizona State in 2022.

• Jones is 98-86 all-time in the month of January and 29-18 at TSU.

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