TSUSports.com: Battle Against Alabama A&M Awaits Women's Basketball Saturday Afternoon

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• Texas Southern begins a three-game road trip in SWAC play Saturday, Feb. 1, against Alabama A&M at 4 p.m. inside the T.M. Elmore Gym.

• Second-year head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke returns to the TSU sidelines for the first time since 2012-13. She spent the 2012-13 season at TSU and led them to the SWAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in school history.

• Guard Ciani Cryor is off to a sizzling start as she's averaging 18.1 points, 7.3 assists and 4.1 steals. She ranks third nationally in assists and in steals per game.

• Head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is 71-40 all-time in the month of January and 14-2 at TSU.

• Cooper-Dyke is 9-3 all-time against Alabama A&M. She last faced the Bulldogs in 2013 when she coached at Texas Southern during the 2012-2013 season.

• Alabama A&M was picked seventh in the SWAC Preseason poll. Dariauna Lewis leads the team in scoring with 17.4 points per game and rebounding with 5.2 rebounds per game. Guard Nigeria Jones was named to the Preseason All-SWAC Second Team.

• TSU Senior forward Niya Mitchell completed the trifecta as she was named the SWAC's Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year in addition to earning first team honors. A 5-10 graduate student from Bay City, Texas, Mitchell is averaging a double-double (15.8/11.9) and ranks 5th nationally in rebounding and 13th in steals. She has ten double-doubles this season.

• TSU was picked fifth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference preseason poll after finishing the 2018-19 season in fifth. TSU has a revamped roster with only five letterwiners retuning while they welcome nine newcomers and two redshirts.

• TSU's RPI as of Jan. 30 is 110 and is 48 points higher than the next closest team in the SWAC. TSU has the sixth-highest RPI in the state of Texas.

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