Prior to the weekend, the Southern Miss beach volleyball team was coming off two wins over Missouri Baptist and Tusculum on March 15 and March 16 However, Southern Miss dropped four of five contests at the Tiger Beach Challenge at LSU from March 22-23.
The Golden Eagles started play with contests against Tulane and No. 19 Georgia State. Southern Miss struggled in this game with a shutout score of 0-5.
In the first contest against Tulane, Southern Miss could not manage to get anything going up until the middle of the game, but that was not enough as they lost 1-4.