10,554 fans made it into Hilton Coliseum on December 6, 2015, to see the women’s basketball team take on the first of three SWAC opponents for the 2015-2016 season.
The Cyclones, with beloved players such as Kidd Blaskowsky, Emily Durr, Seanna Johnson and Jadda Buckley were ready to take on the ballers from Baton Rouge.
Unfortunately, Cortni Purnell’s jumper and free throw would put Southern up 3-2 with 7:35 left in the first, and a imbalanced seesaw towards the Cyclones kept them up 15-10 after a quarter.
Held scoreless in the opening stanza, was true freshman and former Des Moines Roosevelt Roughrider Meredith Burkhall.