2018-19 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M MEN'S BASKETBALL PANTHERS (11-11, 9-0) vs. Texas Southern (11-11, 6-3) Saturday, Feb. 9| 7:30 p.m. | Houston, Texas PRAIRIE VIEW A&M 2018-19 Results OPENING TIP • The Prairie View A&M Panthers defeated Texas Southern in the first of the two regullar season meetings on Jan (10-11, 8-0 SWAC) 12 with a 79 - 73 win. • PVAMU has won 10 straight games, all in this calendar year of 2019, including nine straight in SWAC play. The NOVEMBER (1-6) Panthers have won 13 straight SWAC games dating back to last season. Prairie View A&M has won 19 of its last 20 conference games. 9 Santa Clara (the w.tv) W, 81-64 • PVAMU is 3-4 in the Byron Smith era vs. TSU. (W 59-55 2/6/16 at PV; L 82-87 1/7/17 at PV; L 12 Baylor (Fox SW Alternate) L, 80-91 • 61-74 at TSU 2/4/17; L 94-100 at TSU; W 96-82 2/3/18 at PV, L 74-88 3/9/18 at SWAC Tourn.; W 79-73 1/12/19 at PV) 14 UTRGV (WAC Digital) L, 57-70 ABOUT THE TIGERS 17 Lamar (ESPN3.com L, 67-74 • Johnny Jones is in his first season as Texas Southern Head Coach. 19 UNC Greensboro (ESPN+) L, 66-74 • The Texas Southern Tigers, Jackson State Tigers and the Alabama State Hornets are three way tie for second in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. 21 East Carolina (ESPN3.com) L, 64-76 • Texas Southern has won 3 in a row in conference play against Mississippi Valley (65-62), Alabama State (83-59) 23 Georgia Tech (ACC Extra) L, 54-65 and Alabama A&M 84-74. • Jeremy Combs leads the Hornets in points (18.3) and rebounds (9.7 in confernce play. NOTABLES FROM LAST GAME DECEMBER (0-5) • The Panthers bench dominanted in Monday's win against Alabama State, with 36 Bench Points, and 28 Points 1 Murray St. (ESPN+) L, 67-83 in Paint • Gerard Andrus had a doubled-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, Antione Lister had a big game with 13 4 Louisiana Tech (C-USA) L, 68-82 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steal. Dennis Jones led Panthers with 9 assists and also had 5 rebounds. The Panther 11 La. Lafayette (ESPN+) L, 90-122 starters scored 33 of the team's 69 points. 20 Seattle (WAC Digital) L, 64-102 DOUBLE-DOUBLES THE HARD WAY • Reigning SWAC Player of the Week 6-foot-2 senior guard Gary Blackston has five double-doubles in SWAC play, 29 Winthrop (ESPN+) L, 62-76 six this season and seven in his career, all in points and rebounds. He is second in the league in scoring (16.2 ppg) and third in rebounds (8.0 rpg). His double-doubles this season: 26 pts, 11 reb at Louisiana 12/11; 16-11 JANUARY (8-0) at Southern 1/5; 14 w/career-high 13 reb vs. Texas Southern 1/12; 10-10 vs. Jackson St. 1/19; 14-11 at Miss. Valley St. 1/26; 29-11 at UAPB. 2 HUSTON-TILLOTSON^ W, 81-65 • Devonte Patterson earned his first double-double in conference play with 21 points and 10 rebounds. 5 Southern* W, 82-73 • Dennis Jones also had a double-double with 13 points and a season high of 10 assists. • Blackston has 925 career points and needs 75 to reach the 1,000-point mark. He is averaging 18.1 points and 7 Alcorn* W, 57-54 6.3 rebounds in his PVAMU career. 12 TEXAS SOUTHERN*^ W, 79-73 STRONG START TO 2019 19 JACKSON ST.*^ W, 55-51 • In the first four games in calendar year 2019, the Panthers trailed for only 1:13 seconds, as Texas Southern took an 8-7 lead at the 16:24 mark of the first half. A three-pointer by Gerard Andrus at the 15:11 mark put PVAMU 21 GRAMBLING ST. *^ W, 83-66 ahead to stay. The Panthers led wire-to-wire in wins over Huston-Tillotson, Southern, and Alcorn and lead for 26 Miss. Valley St.* W, 89-78 155:01 of 160 minutes in the first four games, with 3:48 tied play. • In defeating Jackson St., the Panthers actually trailed for more than 32 minutes, leading for only 3:24, all in the 28 Arkansas-Pine Bluff* W, 79-63 final four minutes of the game in the come-from-behind win. • In last Monday's win over Grambling, PVAMU trailed 2-0 in the first 11 seconds of the game before taking a 3-2 FEBRUARY (0-0) lead and maintaining it over the final 38:42 of the contest. • Including this past Monday's win at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the Panthers have four wire-to-wire wins in 2019. 2 ALABAMA A&M*^ W, 81 -65 TOUGH OPENING SLATE 4 ALABAMA ST.*^ W, 69-67 • All 13 of PVAMU's non-conference opponents had a .500 record of better to end December (Santa Clara 8-6, 9 Texas Southern* 7:30 p.m. Baylor 8-4, UTRGV 8-7, Lamar 7-6, UNC Greensboro 13-2, East Carolina 7-5, Georgia Tech 7-5, Murray St. 9-2, 16 Jackson St.* 5 p.m. La. Tech 11-3, Louisiana 9-4, Seattle 12-3, Winthrop 8-4, Huston-Tillotson 6-3). The combined record of those 18 Grambling St.* 7:30 p.m. opponents at the end of 2018 including Huston-Tillotson was 113-54 (.677). 23 MISS. VALLEY ST.*^ 5 p.m. PRAIRIE VIEW A&M PROBABLE STARTERS No. Name Pos. Cl. Pts. Reb. Ast. Notable 25 ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF*^ 7:30 p.m. 3 Gary Blackston G Sr. 16.2 8.0 1.6 2nd/SWAC in ppg, 3rd in reb; 6 Dbl-Dbls, 5 in SWAC 11 Dennis Jones G R-Sr. 6.4 1.8 3.7 Started last 9; SWAC avg 10.1 pts/5.3 ast/2.1 stl 13 Iwin Ellis F Sr. 4.1 3.4 0.3 10 pts vs. Sou.; Started every game this season MARCH (0-0) 15 Gerard Andrus G Jr. 10.3 5.4 0.9 SH 24 pts vs. TSU; Avg. 11.6 pts, 4.9 reb in SWAC 2 Alabama A&M* 6 p.m. 23 Devonte Patterson F Jr. 11.8 4.2 1.2 12 double-digit scoring games 4 Alabama St.* (ESPNU) 8 p.m. RESERVES 0 Chancellor Ellis G Jr. 4.4 0.7 0.4 Season-high 13 pts at Southern; t-2nd/team w/25 3s 7 SOUTHERN*^ 7:30 p.m. 1 Taishaun Johnson G Sr. 7.8 2.6 2.4 Season-high 28 at Louisiana; 6 10+ games 9 ALCORN*^ 5 p.m. 2 Darius Williams G Jr. 8.8 2.4 0.8 Season-high 20 pts at La. Tech, at Alcorn; 9 10 + games 12 SWAC Tournament TBA 4 Antoine Lister G Jr. 3.2 1.0 0.1 Season-high 16 at Seattle; 4 10+ games 10 Tyler Singleton G R-Jr. 0.9 0.8 0.3 Season-high 7 pts at ECU; played in 16 of 20 gms 15-16 SWAC Tournament TBA 12 Elijah Holifield G R-Jr. 0.0 0.0 0.0 Made season debut at Seattle 14 Leon Sneed G Jr. 1.2 0.6 1.1 Season high 7 pts, 4 ast at La. Tech 21 Faite Williams G Fr. 0.1 0.4 0.0 Only freshman on roster; played 16 of 20 gms Home Games In Bold * SWAC Games 22 Tristen Wallace F R-So. 0.0 0.0 0.0 2nd team All-SWAC WR; joined team 12/29 ^ Video at pvpanthers.com All Times Central 30 Juan Hood G So. 0.9 0.3 0.3 17-18 stats; Played in 27 games as freshman SWAC Regular Season Champs ‘50, ‘60, ‘61, ‘62, ‘03 SWAC Tourney Champs '98 NCAA Tourney' 98 NAIA National Champs '62 2018-19 Prairie View A&M Men's Basketball Quick Facts GENERAL INFORMATION 2018-19 Roster Founded / Location ............................1876 / Prairie View, Texas # Name POS HT WT CL HOMETOWN / PREVIOUS SCHOOL Enrollment / Nickname ..9,125 (School Record - Fall 2017) / Panthers 0 Chancellor Ellis G 6-4 196 JR Queens, N.Y./New Mexico St. Colors ............................ Purple (PMS 268) and Gold (PMS 123) 1 Taishaun Johnson G 6-0 176 SR Indianapolis, Ind./Kent St. Affiliation ... NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision) 2 Darius Williams G 6-0 176 JR Augusta, Ga./Paris CC Conference ........................... Southwestern Athletic Conference 3 Gary Blackston G 6-2 185 SR Baltimore, MD/Angelina CC President .......................................................Dr. Ruth Simmons 4 Antione Lister G 6-3 165 JR Brenham, Texas/Blinn JC Vice President / Athletic Director ..................... Fred Washington 10 Tyler Singleton G 6-2 185 R-SO Dallas, Texas/Incarnate Word Alma Mater ....................Prairie View A&M, 1992, 1998, 2017 11 Dennis Jones G 6-1 170 R-SR Ft. Worth, Texas/Pratt JC Assistant Vice President / Operations / SWA ............. Alicia Pete 12 Elijah Holifield G 6-3 180 R-JR Atlanta, Ga./St. John's Alma Mater ....................................... Prairie View A&M, 1991 13 Iwin Ellis F 6-7 205 SR Ft. Worth, Texas/Southwestern Christian Col. Assistant Vice President, Business Operations ..... Anitra Addison 14 Leon Sneed G 6-2 175 JR Desoto, Texas/San Jacinto JC Alma Mater .......................................Prairie View A&M, 1998 15 Gerard Andrus G 6-5 192 JR Lafayette, La./Feather River CC Faculty Athletic Representative ......................