PRAIRIE VIEW – Prairie View A&M women's basketball will open the 2020 Cricket Wireless Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament at defending conference champion and No. 3 seed Southern in F.G. Clark Activity Center. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m.

The Panthers (12-18, 9-9 SWAC) earned the No. 6 seed in tournament play. This will mark the second game between the teams in the past four days.

Prairie View A&M dropped both regular season meetings to Southern. The Jaguars have won two of the past three SWAC tournament meetings between the teams, but this will be the first time the sides have met since PVAMU Head Coach Sandy Pugh resigned as Southern's coach.

News and Notes:
- Prairie View A&M looks to make it to at least the semifinal round for the third straight season.

- The contest matches up the top two teams in terms of rebounds allowed. Southern leads the conference with 32.1 boards allowed per game, and PVAMU is second at 34.9.

- Senior Ke'Asia Williams is fourth in the SWAC when it comes to rebounds per game against conference foes (7.8).

Scouting the Opposition:
- Southern comes into the contest with the top-ranked scoring defense among SWAC teams, allowing 58.9 points per game. Additionally, the Jaguars are the top three-point shooting team in the conference at roughly 32 percent from beyond the arc.

- Brittany Rose leads the team in scoring at 10.4 points per game. 2019 SWAC Tournament MVP Alyric Scott is the top long-range threat, converting on 41 percent of her tries from deep.