• Texas Southern starts its final homestand of 2024-25 against Mississippi Valley State at 5 p.m. on Saturday inside the H&PE Arena.
• TSU will honor nine seniors prior to the game in Grayson Carter, Mario Davis, Zaire Hayes, Kenny Hunter, Oumar Koureissi, Kavion McClain, Duane Posey, Jaylin Jackson-Posey and Jaylen Wysinger
• TSU opened up the second half of SWAC play with a 1-1 mark but has dropped four of the past five and are now in a four-way tie for fourth place.
• Texas Southern fell in the finals of the 2024 SWAC Tournament last season and participated in the CIT as they fell to Tarleton State in the opening round.
• TSU returns two starters from last season and eight letterwinners as they lost seven lettermen. The Tigers added seven newcomers to its roster in the offseason as six were added via the transfer portal. The TSU men's basketball duo of Grayson Carter and Kenny Hunter were named to the 2024-25 Preseason All-SWAC Second Team. Hunter was also tabbed the league's Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.
• TSU has won 22 of the past 24 games over MVSU. Picked 12th in the SWAC Preseason poll, MVSU has only one SWAC win on the season and has surpassed the 60-point mark only once in the past 10
games. Arthur Tate leads the team with 10.2 points while Alvin Stredic leads the team in rebounding with five per contest. TSU has won 22 of the past 24 games over MVSU. MVSU's last win over TSU broke a 10-game winning streak by TSU on Jan. 9. 2023. Prior to the win, MVSU's last win over TSU was in 2017. MVSU hasn't won in Houston since Jan. 23, 2012.
• TSU head coach Johnny Jones is 12-1 lifetime against MVSU.
• TSU, which is led by seventh-year head coach Johnny Jones, has won three-of-the-past four SWAC Tournament Championships and enters the 2024-25 season looking to earn its eighth NCAA Tourna- ment bid over the past 12 years.
• TSU made its fourth consecutive postseason under Jones and third straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2022-23. Jones went 24-14 in his inaugural year as head coach with three Power 5 conference wins. TSU fell in the finals of the 2019 SWAC Tournament and advanced to the semifinals of the CIT in 2019. In 2019-20, the Tigers made it back to the semifinals of the SWAC Tournament after a third-place regular season finish but saw the season end abruptly due to COVID-19. TSU won the SWAC Tournament and First Four contest in 2021 and was the first SWAC team to beat a ranked opponent from the SEC in 2021 at Florida. TSU claimed another Power 5 non-conference win against Arizona State in 2022.
• Jones is 100-86 all-time in the month of February and 32-16 at TSU.
