Following a 61-44 loss to Houston on Dec. 30, the Southern Miss Women’s basketball team (8-6, 0-1 C-USA) opened the new year with a 58-47 home loss to Rice (10-3, 1-0 C-USA) to start conference play.
“I think when you look to try to see what you can take away from this game, I think that you look at, number one, how hard we played,” Southern Miss head coach Joye Lee-McNelis said. “I thought we played with a tremendous amount of energy. I think when you look at the big picture and you have Shonte Hailes and Megan Brown that scored two points, that are your two best players and have played the most minutes for you and they give you two points, you’re not going to win many ballgames.