Prairie View A&M Basketball Looks to Bounce Back

The Prairie View A&M men and women's basketball teams both look to bounce back from tough losses to Mississippi Valley State suffered on Saturday with road wins against Arkansas-Pine Bluff Monday night.

The Lady Panthers Tip off at 5 p.m. against a team they scored 102 points against on Jan. 23. Without their leading scorer Kiara Etienne, the Lady Panthers broke a school record in scoring that had been in place since the 1987 season when Prairie View defeated Wiley College 100-69 under the helm of Bob Atkins.

Prairie View, coached by Toyelle Wilson scored 60 points in the first half against Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Monday and had three players score 20 points or more: Latia, Williams (22 points), Jeanette Jackson (29 points) and JaQuandria Williams (33 points).

The Lady Lions were winless at 0-24 before beating Texas Southern 69-54 on Saturday night at home. Prairie View A&M (10-14, 7-6 SWAC) will turn to the guard combo of Etienne (14.7 points per game) and Latia Williams (12.4 points and 8.2 rebounds per game) to make sure Arkansas Pine-Bluff does not pull off another upset.

The men tip off at 7:30 p.m. against a team that took them down to the wire in a 76-75 win for the Panthers on Jan. 23 in a game nationally televised on ESPN U. In that victory Jourdan Demuynck dropped 18 on the Lions and iced two free throws with 22 seconds left to lift his team to the win.

Demuynck was one of four players to score 14 points or more in that victory. Prairie View is in need of a win following a heartbreaking 60-58 loss to the first place and newly crowned SWAC regular season champions Mississippi Valley State.

The Panthers (11-15, 7-6 SWAC) seemed to have the game in hand until Mississippi Valley hit a three with six seconds left to win it. They will turn to their balanced scoring attack of Louis Munks (9.9 points), Demuynck (9.7 points), Demondre Chapman (9.2 points) and Ryan Gesiakowski (9.2 points) to try and bounce back Monday night.

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