It was a desperate game for both teams, which were both
fighting for the top of Conference USA and a slim chance
at an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. UAB was ranked No.
31 in the NCAA’s RPI rankings released on Monday while
Southern Miss was No. 41.
Southern Miss led 32-28 at halftime. Flowers led the
Golden Eagles with eight points and seven rebounds.
It was the third time this season Southern Miss lost
after an opponent hit a game-winning 3-pointer in the final
seconds. The other losses came to Memphis and Central
Florida.
UAB won despite shooting just 4 of 14 ( 28. 6 percent)
from the free-throw line. The Blazers made up for that ugly
stat by outrebounding the Golden Eagles 40-29, including
18-6 on the offensive glass.
S. Miss ( 21-9, 9-7)
04 Flowers*
01 Bolden*
15 Horton*
23 Johnson*
33 Newbill*
00 Page
03 Ayarza
14 Stone
25 Phillips
31 Partee
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
5-9
1-2
4-5
5 415 0 6 0 1 37
1-2 0-0 0-0 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 10
7-16 1-1 3-4 3 218 2 1 0 0 35
1-3 0-0 2-2 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 17
1-5 0-0 4-6 6 3 6 0 1 0 0 31
5-10 2-4 0-1 4 512 0 1 0 0 29
0-2 0-0 4-4 2 4 4 2 0 0 0 15
3-5 0-0 1-1 4 3 7 2 1 0 1 23
1-2 0-0 0-0 1 3 2 0 1 0 0 12
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0+
8 1
24-54
4-7 18-23343070 7 12 0 2 200
14 Stone*
15 Horton*
23 Johnson*
33 Newbill*
00 Page
01 Bolden
03 Ayarza
25 Phillips
Team
Totals
0-1 0-0 2-2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 23
1-5 0-3 3-4 1 3 5 3 2 0 0 29
2-5 0-3 0-0 3 2 4 3 2 0 0 27
3-5 0-0 0-1 3 0 6 0 0 0 1 23
4-8
2-4
2-2
2
112
1
1 0 1 27
2-8 0-0 0-0 9 2 4 9 2 1 9 24
2-4 0-1 6-7 6 110 0 2 0 0 17
1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4
3
22-47
3-12 16-20381063 9 11 1 8 200
Tulane
Southern Miss
Half Final
18
47
35 63
FG%
34.0
46. 8
3PT% FT%
32. 3 37. 5
25.0 80.0
UAB ( 21-7, 11-4)
03 Criswell*
32 Soko*
01 Johnson*
04 Sanders*
23 Fields*
22 Moore
24 Purifoy
25 Taylor
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
2-4 0-0 0-1 5 2 4 0 2 0 0 12
4-4 0-0 2-3 4 410 1 2 0 0 20
3-9 0-2 1-3 1 3 7 14 1 0 0 39
8-15 1-3 1-3 4 218 0 0 1 0 31
2-9 1-7 0-0 2 3 5 0 0 0 1 28
6-12 0-2 0-4 11 212 1 1 3 0 36
2-4 2-4 0-0 2 2 6 1 0 0 0 12
2-6 1-3 0-0 3 0 5 1 1 0 2 22
Tulsa ( 18-12, 11-5)
11 Idlet*
33 Richard*
04 Heirman*
15 Hurtt*
30 Haralson*
00 Pope
03 Clarkson
05 Peete
32 Maduka
35 Magley
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
1-3 0-0 7-8 2 5 9 0 0 2 0 18
1-1 0-0 3-3 11 2 5 0 0 0 0 35
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
6-14 2-8 11-14 3 125 2 2 1 1 33
3-9 3-8 2-2 0 111 1 1 1 0 32
0-0 0-0 1-2 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 24
4-11 2-5 8-8 1 118 3 2 0 3 28
0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
1-3 0-0 3-6 5 1 5 1 1 0 0 15
1-1 0-0 2-3 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 10
Officials: Steve Olson, Hal Lusk, Terry Moore
Technicals: None
Southern Miss
Memphis
32 Don Haskins Center ( 7,085) Mar. 10, 2011 • El Paso, Texas
63
66
S. Miss ( 21-8, 9-6)
04 Flowers*
01 Bolden*
15 Horton*
23 Johnson*
33 Newbill*
00 Page
03 Ayarza
14 Stone
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
7-16 0-3 2-4 11 216 1 2 0 1 37
1-3 0-0 0-0 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 12
5-10 1-2 5-6 3 116 1 0 0 1 40
4-6 2-4 0-0 2 310 2 1 0 0 26
2-3 0-0 3-4 4 3 7 3 3 0 0 29
0-2 0-2 2-2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 11
1-2 0-0 5-6 3 3 7 0 0 0 0 25
2-5 0-0 2-2 0 1 6 2 1 0 1 20
Southern Miss
Tulsa
Half Final
31
70
26 78
FG%
44. 4
40. 5
3PT% FT%
57. 1 78. 3
33. 3 80. 4
Officials: Joe DeRosa, Terry Moore, Brent Dugas
Technicals: None
31
Don Haskins Center ( 6,841)
Mar. 9, 2011 • El Paso, Texas
EL PASO, Texas – Joe Jackson scored 15 points and
helped seal Memphis’ 66-63 victory over Southern Miss
with two key free throws in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA tournament Thursday.
The Tigers ( 23-9) had four players in double digits, as
Jackson was joined by Antonio Barton with 12 points and
Charles Carmouche and Will Barton with 10 each.
The fifth-seeded Golden Eagles ( 22-9) were led by
R.L. Horton, who had 19 points. D.J. Newbill scored 14
and Gary Flowers 12.
Memphis led 64-59 before Ahyaro Phillips scored
twice for Southern Miss to cut it to 64-63 with 12 seconds
left. Then Jackson hit his free throws.
Tulane
Southern Miss
UAB
Southern Miss
Half Final
28
67
32 66
FG%
46.0
46. 8
3PT% FT%
23. 8 28. 6
27. 3 79. 2
Officials: Mark Whitehead, Patrick Adams, Kelly Self
Technicals: None
Southern Miss 70
Tulsa 78
30 Donald W. Reynolds Center ( 6,571) Mar. 5, 2011 • Tulsa, Okla.
47
63
S. Miss ( 22-10)
04 Flowers*
14 Stone*
15 Horton*
23 Johnson*
33 Newbill*
00 Page
01 Bolden
03 Ayarza
25 Phillips
Team
Totals
EL PASO, Texas – Gary Flowers’ ninth double-double of the season led Southern Miss past Tulane 63-47
on Wednesday in the first round of the Conference USA
tournament.
Flowers had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the fifth-seeded Golden Eagles ( 22-9), who will face fourth-seeded
LaShay Page added 12 points and Josimar Ayarza 10
for Southern Miss, which shot 46. 8 percent while limiting
Tulane to 34.0.
The 12th-seeded Green Wave ( 13-17) got 16 points
from Kris Richard and 15 from Kendall Timmons. Richard
hit four 3-pointers.
Trailing 5-4, Southern Miss reeled off the next 10
points, ending with a basket by Ayarza that made it 14-5
with 14: 51 left in the first half. The Golden Eagles held
the Green Wave scoreless for the final 5:09 and led 35-18
at halftime.
The second-half lead peaked at 22
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
5-15
1-5
1-2
4 312 2 2 0 2 35
0-1 0-0 0-0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 12
5-12 3-3 4-7 3 317 2 3 0 1 33
1-4 0-1 2-4 3 3 4 4 2 0 0 31
6-8 0-0 2-5 5 414 1 3 0 0 38
0-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
2-3 0-0 4-5 5 0 8 0 1 0 0 15
1-5 0-0 2-2 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 11
2-3 0-0 0-0 5 2 4 1 0 0 0 10
1
22-53 4-9 15-25 35 20 63 10 11 0 4 200
TULSA, Okla. – Justin Hurtt scored 25 in his final home
game and freshman Jordan Clarkson scored 15 of his 18
points in the second half as Tulsa rallied past Southern Miss
78-70 on Saturday.
The win gave the Golden Hurricane ( 18-12, 11-5) the
second seed behind Alabama-Birmingham in the Conference
USA tournament next week in El Paso, Texas.
The game was tied 15 times, the last at 67 before Joe
Richard, a 53 percent free-throw shooter, made two with
3 minutes left to put Tulsa ahead for good, the 11th lead
change of the game.
Clarkson then was fouled on a 3-pointer with a second
remaining and made all three.
R.L. Horton scored 18 points, Gary Flowers had 15 and
LaShay Page had 12 for Southern Miss ( 21-9, 9-7).
The Golden Eagles held Tulsa to 21. 7 percent first-half
shooting ( 5 of 23), but Tulsa made 14 of 18 free throws to
hang within 31-26 at the break. Hurtt and Scottie Haralson,
Tulsa’s most potent 3-point shooters, combined to make 1
of 10 in the first half, but bounced back to make 4 of 6 in
the second half.
Hurtt, the league’s leading scorer at 20. 1 points per
game, scored 13 of Tulsa’s 16 points in a second-half run
to keep Tulsa close until the final run.
Memphis ( 23-9)
10 Black*
02 Barton, A.*
03 Crawford*
04 Carmouche*
05 Barton, W.*
00 Coleman
01 Jackson
11 Witherspoon
30 Stephens
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
1-3 0-0 5-6 4 5 7 0 1 0 1 20
3-7 2-4 4-4 3 112 3 3 0 0 36
0-5 0-4 2-4 4 1 2 5 3 0 1 28
4-8 2-3 0-1 2 410 0 2 0 1 26
3-10 0-4 4-4 6 310 0 1 1 2 28
1-2 0-0 2-4 5 4 4 0 1 1 0 17
4-7 0-1 7-8 1 115 1 0 0 0 17
0-2 0-1 0-0 6 2 0 0 1 0 0 25
3-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 6 0 1 0 1 3
Tulane ( 13-17)
02 Booker*
23 Mayhane*
00 Richard*
05 Callahan*
22 Timmons*
03 Rogers
20 Thomas
31 Brown
Team
Totals
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
0-1 0-0 0-0 7 4 0 0 3 1 0 30
1-8 1-6 0-0 1 4 3 1 1 0 2 29
6-15 4-11 0-0 6 2 16 0 2 1 1 40-
3-10 2-7 0-0 2 2 8 4 3 0 0 33
5-13 2-6 3-6 3 415 5 3 0 0 40
1-1 1-1 0-0 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 14
1-1 0-0 0-0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 9
0-1 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
2
17-5010-31 3-8 241947 10 13 2 3 200
Southern Miss
Memphis
Half Final
21
63
29 66
FG%
41. 5
40. 4
3PT% FT%
44. 4 60.0
23. 5 77. 4
Officials: Tom O’Neill, Zelton Steed, Rick Randall
Technicals: Southern Miss-Stone; Memphis-Stephens
S. Miss ( 22-9)
04 Flowers*
FG 3FG FT R F TP A TO B S Min
