Southeastern Louisiana (4-3) at Alabama A&M (2-6)
Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 | 3 p.m. | Huntsville, Ala. | T.W. Elmore Gymnasium (6,000)
Series History:  Alabama A&M leads 1-0
Last Meeting: Alabama A&M 76, Southeastern Louisiana 74 (12/21/17 – Hammond, La.)
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HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women's basketball team returns to action on Saturday, traveling to Alabama A&M for a 3 p.m. non-conference contest at T.W. Elmore Gymnasium in Huntsville, Alabama.
 
Southeastern (4-3) will be looking to end a two-game losing skid on Saturday. Live stats, provided by the hosts, will be available via a link on the women's basketball schedule page at www.LionSports.net.
 
SLU returned to the court after a 12-day layoff on Wednesday, falling 72-53, at in-state foe Louisiana Tech in the first meeting between the two schools in 20 years. Despite several standout individual performances, Southeastern could not overcome a season-high 23 turnovers.
 
Charliee Dugas led Southeastern with 16 points in Wednesday's loss, while Celica Sterling chipped in with 14 points off the bench. Jaclyn Scholvin added eight points, while leading the Lady Lions with five assists and four steals. Kyla Williams chipped in with a team-high seven rebounds.
 
Sterling leads SLU and is seventh in the Southland Conference with 14.6 points per game. Dugas joins her in double figures with 11.0 points per outing, while Scholvin (9.1 ppg), Caitlyn Williams (7.7 ppg) and Morgan Carrier (6.3 ppg) round out the top five scorers.
 
Sterling has done much of her damage from behind the arc. Her 3.1 three-point field goals per game rank her second in the Southland Conference.
 
Tyler Morrison (4.4 apg, 3^rd) and Scholvin (3.6 apg, 10^th) are two of the Southland's tops in terms of assists per game. Morrison is also second in the league with a 2.82 assist-to-turnover ratio, as Southeastern is averaging 17.6 turnovers per game – third-fewest in the Southland.
 
SLU has a minus-6.4 rebounding margin heading into Saturday's game. Caitlyn Williams has been the most effective Lady Lion on the glass, as the Brusly, Louisiana native is seventh in the league with 7.1 rebounds per contest.
 
On the defensive side, Southeastern is yielding 63.1 points and forcing 19.3 turnovers per outing. Scholvin is fourth in the league with a team-high 2.6 steals per outing, while Caitlyn Williams' eight blocks are good for eighth in the Southland.
 
Alabama A&M (2-6) will be a much tougher test than its early-season record would indicate. The Lady Bulldogs have losses to Illinois, Lipscomb, Kansas, UAB, Austin Peay and Jacksonville State during a daunting non-conference schedule. AAMU's wins have come over Tennessee State and Murray State.
 
The Alabama A&M offense runs through Nigeria Jones, who doubles as the Lady Bulldogs' top scorer (8.8 ppg) and distributor (3.6 apg). Chinelo Lucy Ibeh's 5.9 rebounds per game are a team-high.
 
The two teams will be meeting for the second straight season. Last season in Hammond, Alabama A&M won the inaugural meeting between the two schools, 76-74. The Lady Bulldogs outscored SLU, 21-13, in the third quarter on the way to the victory.
 
Southeastern will return home on Monday, hosting ULM at 5:30 p.m. in the University Center as part of a doubleheader the Lion men's basketball team, which hosts California Baptist 30 minutes after the conclusion of the women's game.
 
Both of Monday's games can be heard live in the Hammond area on KSLU-FM (90.9), online at www.LionSports.net/listenlive and via the Lions Game Day Experience, TuneIn Radio and RadioFX apps. LionVision subscribers can access a live video stream of Monday's twin bill at www.LionSports.net/watch.
 
Carrier and Caitlyn Williams will be Monday's Spotlight Players of the Game. The first 150 fans will receive trading cards featuring Williams and Carrier, courtesy of PRIDE.     
 
TICKET INFORMATION
For ticket information on the Southeastern women's basketball season, contact the Southeastern Athletics Ticket Office at (985) 549-5466 or visit www.lionsports.net/tickets.
 
SEASON OF GIVING
Southeastern Louisiana Athletics, the Southeastern Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Office of Multicultural and International Student Affairs will hold a food drive throughout the months of November and December. Fans who bring one of the requested items to the University Center (game day only) or the Dugas Center for Southeastern Athletics will receive a voucher for a discounted ticket.
 
All items will be donated to the SLU Food Pantry. Requested items include snack bars, tuna, soup, cereal, pop tarts, macaroni and cheese, cup noodles, pasta, ramen noodles, chili, black beans, red beans, dry beans, peanut butter, jelly, Vienna sausage, rice, instant rice, instant potatoes, microwave meals, fruit cups, mouthwash, shampoo and toothpaste. 
 
SOCIAL MEDIA
For more information on Southeastern Women's Basketball, follow @SoutheasternWBB on Twitter, like /SoutheasternWBB on Facebook and subscribe to the SLUathletics YouTube channel.
 
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Southeastern Athletics has instituted a clear bag policy for all ticketed events, effective with the start of football season. For more information on the clear bag policy, visit www.LionSports.net/clear.