Women's Highlights vs. Jackson St.
Men's Highlights vs. Alcorn St.
Both Prairie View A&M basketball teams have advanced to the SWAC Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2015 and will play Friday at Delmar Fieldhouse.
The #4 seeded Lady Panthers advanced with a 66-64 win over #5 Jackson State. In men's play, the #2 seeded Panthers defeated #7 Alcorn State 87-71 in a Tuesday doubleheader in the William J. Nicks Babydome.
The PVAMU women will play #1 seed Southern Friday at Noon, and the PVAMU men will face #3 Texas Southern Friday night at 8:30 p.m. Panther Nation is encouraged to buy seats early and make Delmar Fieldhouse a PVAMU home court advantage. Both games will be broadcast live at
pvpanthers.com/sportsnetwork.
Tickets are on sale online at
www.swac.org. There will be no SWAC Tournament tickets sold on the PVAMU Campus. Tickets are sold in sessions (Friday games at Noon and 2:30 p.m.; Friday games at 6 and 8:30 p.m.; Saturday championship games at 12:30 and 4 p.m.).
Tickets are $15 per session on Friday, and $20 on Championship Saturday. Group tickets of 10 or more can be purchased for $12 for each of the Friday semifinal sessions, and $17 each on Saturday.
Student tickets are $10 per session with valid ID for all three sessions and can be purchased in person at Delmar Fieldhouse.
DOBBINS SETS NCAA SINGLE SEASON RECORDS: Shala Dobbins, set NCAA women's basketball single game records for made free throws and free throws attempted during Tuesday's opening round win vs. Alcorn St.
Dobbins, the SWAC's Newcomer of the Year, entered the game needing four made free throws and six attempted free throws to set NCAA records. The record for makes was 280, set by Kent State's Larissa Lurken in 2017. The record for attempts is 353, set by Kristy Ryan of Sacramento St. in 1994.
Dobbins, who was 14 for 14 at the line in scoring a game-high 29 points, made the record-breaking free throw with 1:16 to play in the first half. She shot the record-breaking attempt with 5:00 to play in the third quarter.
Dobbins, a junior from Tulsa, Okla. in her first year in the program, has now made 291 of 362 free throws this season (80.4%) and is averaging 21.8 points per game. Dobbins has scored 20 or more points in 12 of last 13 games.
MONSTER COBB: Jhyrah Cobb nearly had a triple double in Tuesday's win over Jackson State.
The freshman from Fort Worth, Texas, scored 11 points with career-highs in rebounds (21) and blocks (eight) against JSU. It was Cobb's third career double-double, second in the last three games, and her second against Jackson St. Cobb has nine 10+ rebound games this season and seven in her last eight games.
Her rebound total is the second-highest in the SWAC this season and her blocks total the highest in the league this season. Cobb's 21 rebounds is the most since Larissa Scott pulled down 21 boards on Nov. 13, 2015 vs. Howard Payne, while Cobb's blocks total is the most by a Lady Panther this decade.
Cobb, who earned SWAC Freshman of the Year honors, is averaging 4.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.
DROPPING DIMES: Dennis Jones posted his third career double-double in the Panthers' win over Alcorn Tuesday night, scoring 16 points and dishing out a career-best 14 assists. It was his fourth 10+ assist game of the season.
Jones, a junior from Fort Worth, Texas, posted the second-highest assist total in the SWAC this season, and the highest by a Panther player this decade.
Jones is averaging 12.6 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 5.1 assists.
BOARD CHAIR: J.D. Wallace posted his sixth double-double of the season in Tuesday's win over the Braves.
Wallace scored 16 points, and pulled down 11 rebounds, his second straight double-digit rebound game, his sixth in the last nine games, and 12
th double-digit rebound game this season.
Wallace, a senior from Dallas, is a second-team All-SWAC selection and is averaging 7.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game.
