TSUSports.com: Tigers To Face Devilettes Saturday Night Inside Fertitta Center

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• Due to an ongoing power outage on campus, Texas Southern will make the short trek to the Fertitta Center on the University of Houston campus as they'll host Mississippi Valley State at 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening.

• 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 17.1 points, 7.4 assists and 4.0 steals. She ranks third nationally in assists per game and third in steals.

• Head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is 69-40 all-time in the month of January and 12-2 at TSU.

• Cooper-Dyke is 9-3 all-time against Mississippi Valley State. She last faced MVSU in 2013 when she coached at Texas Southern during the 2012-2013 season.

• Mississippi Valley State was picked eighth in the SWAC Preseason poll. Ayonna Cotton leads the team with 11.1 points per game while Diamond Wraggs leads with 5.1 rebounds per game. MVSU has lost nine consecutive games and is 0-5 in SWAC play.

• 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 (16.1/12.1) and ranks 3rd nationally in rebounding and 13th in steals. She has nine double-doubles.

• 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. 21 is 95 and is 71 points higher than the next closest team in the SWAC. TSU has the fifth-highest RPI in the state of Texas.

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