The Georgia Southern women's basketball team is coming off a 63-62 road loss to Georgia State on Saturday in which Georgia State junior guard Makeba Ponder made a 3-pointer with 5 seconds left in the game.
Despite the loss, the Eagles will retain a higher seed than the Panthers in this week's Sun Belt Championship tournament in New Orleans. Georgia Southern enters the tournament as the no. 6 seed while State will be the no. 7 seed.
The first opponent for the Eagles will be the no. 11 seed Arkansas State Red Wolves on Tuesday, March 7 at 8:30 p.