Southern University Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:40:28 PDT

Once you reach the bottom, there's nowhere to go but up, or at least that's what Southern and coach Rob Spivery are hoping.

Spivery's squad suffered its third straight losing season in 2008-09, going 8-23 for the worst record in school history.

But the Jaguars are hopeful that the worst is behind them, that the team is ready for an upswing.

"If we can stay healthy, and the new guys learn the system throughout the first part of the season, I believe we have a good chance to be a very good ball team," said Spivery. "Defensively, our philosophy will change a bit, in that we will be picking up full-court man-to-man primarily, and offensively we will pretty much stay the same, other than we will push the ball up the court more.