Box Score (PDF)
STATESBORO, Ga. – Behind four with double-figure points, the University of South Alabama women's basketball team (17-11, 10-7 SBC) survives in overtime against Georgia Southern (5-23, 2-15 SBC), 81-74, on Thursday in Statesboro.
Trailing by seven with 6:11 left in the game, the Jags went on a 9-0 run to take a two-point lead with 1:42 to go. After holding the Eagles scoreless for nearly six minutes, Nicola Franks made a layup and a free-throw on an and-one to put Georgia Southern up by a point with 21 ticks remaining. Antoinette Lewis was fouled at the other end and made 1-of-2 at the free-throw line to tie it up.