MONTOGMERY—After a big conference win over Alabama A&M University, the Alabama State men's basketball team was back at practice this morning preparing for a big weekend of home games.  The first game comes Saturday, Feb. 18 against Alcorn State at 5 p.m. with the next home game coming two days later on Monday, Feb. 20 when they host Southern University at 7:30 p.m.
 
ASU currently stands in fifth place with a 6-6 record (9-15 overall), just one game out of fifth and two games from second place.  The Hornets will have the opportunity to play four of the final six games of the season at home, so ASU is looking make a move to improve their conference standings with the conference tournament only three weeks away.
 
“We look at the conference standings right now and Mississippi Valley is sort of running out in front of everybody and the rest of us are beating up on each other, but as we look at it with six games to go we are two games out of second place so we are excited about what can happen,” head coach Lewis Jackson said.  “If we continue to play with the energy and effort and desire that we need to play with too we can win ball games and if we don't do those things we can certainly drop down the ladder.”
 
“We are going to focus on the fact that we can go out and achieve what we want to achieve in these last six games and that is to play hard and play strong and develop some momentum and get ready to go into the tournament.”