HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women's basketball team will celebrate Senior Day prior to Saturday's 2 p.m. season finale versus Nicholls at the University Center.
 
The game between the Lady Lions (8-20, 7-10 Southland) and the visiting Colonels (15-13, 10-7 Southland) will be broadcast live in the Hammond area on KSLU-FM (90.9), online at www.LionSports.net/listenlive and via the TuneIn Radio app. LionVision subscribers will be able to access a live video stream at www.LionSports.net/watch.
 
At 1:35 p.m., senior guards Taylin Underwood and Bre' Warren will be honored prior to the final game of the 2017-18 season in a special Senior Day ceremony. Underwood will be Saturday's Spotlight Player of the Game. The first 150 fans will receive a trading card featuring the Livingston, Louisiana native courtesy of PRIDE.
 
Southeastern erased a 24-point third-quarter deficit on Wednesday at UNO, but Privateer senior guard Randi Brown sunk three free throws in the final minute to give New Orleans the 74-71 victory. The loss, coupled with McNeese's 70-64 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, eliminated for Southland Conference Tournament contention.
 
In the loss, SLU sophomore guard Charliee Dugas poured in a career-high 38 points – the most by a Lady Lion in 2017-18. Underwood added 23 points, while sophomore guard Tyler Morrison led Southeastern with nine rebounds, seven assists and six steals.
 
While Southeastern will not reach the postseason, a win on Saturday would give the Lady Lions their most Southland victories since the 2008-09 season.
 
Underwood enters her final game second in the league with 18.3 points per game. She ranks fifth in school history with 1,552 career points heading into her 114^th game in the green and gold.
 
Dugas, who is averaging 22.2 points over the past five games, is second on the team with 9.4 points per game. Morrison (3.3 apg, 7^th) and Underwood (2.8 apg, 14^th) are both among the Southland assist leaders. Freshman forward Caitlyn Williams (7.0 rpg, 11^th) and Morrison (5.7 rpg, 16^th) are listed on the league's rebounding leaderboard.
 
Much of Southeastern's damage has been done from three-point range, as the Lady Lions need 11 treys on Saturday to break the single-season school record for three-point field goals in a season. Underwood and junior guard Ashailee Brailey are both among the league's best long-range shooters, ranking on the Southland leaderboard in both three-point field goals made and three-point field goal percentage.
 
Underwood's single-season school record of 87 three-point field goals is the 11^th-highest single-season total in league history. Her 258 career treys are also a program standard and are the fifth-most ever by a Southland Conference women's basketball student-athlete.
 
On the defensive end, opponents have scored 71.7 points and committed 18.5 turnovers per outing versus Southeastern. Caitlyn Williams is 10^th in the Southland with 23 blocked shots, while Morrison has climbed to seventh in the league with 2.1 steals per game.
 
Nicholls has already secured a spot in next week's Southland Conference Tournament, scheduled for Thursday-Sunday at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. On Wednesday, the Colonels powered past Northwestern State, 85-53, to extend their winning streak to three games. Junior guard Cassidy Barrios led Nicholls with 17 points, 11 rebounds, five steals and three blocks.
 
Barrios (16.5 ppg, 3^rd) and sophomore guard Tykeria Williams (13.0 ppg, 8^th) are in the Southland top 10 in scoring. Barrios is also third in the league with 9.3 rebounds per game, while senior guard Tia Charles is fifth in the league with a team-high 3.8 assists per game.
 
Barrios also leads the Nicholls defense. The Raceland, Louisiana native is second in the Southland in steals (3.0, 2^nd) and blocked shots (1.6, 2^nd) per game.
 
Southeastern is 58-22 all-time versus the Colonels. Back on Jan. 27, the Lady Lions won in Thibodaux, 66-57, behind Underwood (22 points) and Morrison (11 rebounds). A win on Saturday would give SLU its first season sweep of Nicholls since the 2009-10 campaign.