After dropping its first home game since New Year's Day, Southern Miss must look forward to potentially the toughest stretch of its season yet.
The Golden Eagles will play at Middle Tennessee (16-3, 6-0 C-USA) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday before going to UAB (12-7, 5-1) on Saturday.
Southern Miss (6-13, 3-4) fell 61-58 to Rice, the league's second-highest scoring offense, on Saturday.
Here are three takeaways from the loss.
Price back on shelf
Senior point guard Khari Price, who was noticeably less than 100 percent healthy in last week's win over North Texas, sat out against the Owls.