HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The ULM women's basketball team (13-5, 5-2 Sun Belt Conference) won its fourth-consecutive SBC game with a 70-58 road victory over Southern Miss (9-8, 2-5) on Saturday (Jan. 20) afternoon at Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg, Miss.

The win marks the first time the Warhawks have defeated Southern Miss since 2012 and is the first time ULM has won inside Reed Green Coliseum since 2005. ULM had not won four conference games in a row since the 2010-11 season.
 
Daisha Bradford, who surpassed 1,000 career points in Saturday's game, led the Warhawks in scoring with 27 points, hitting 9-of-15 field goal attempts and 4-of-6 shots from beyond the arc. Bradford was a pair of rebounds shy of a double-double and dished out five assists to go along with one steal. Katlyn Manuel posted 13 points and pulled down six rebounds off the glass. Lauren Gross shined in her return game at Reed Green Coliseum, scoring 11 points with a trio of 3-point baskets. Sania Wells poured in nine points and tallied a pair of rebounds and assists.
 
The Warhawks trailed by two points at the end of the first half, but shot 43.3% from the field and 50% from downtown in the second half to pull away for the win. ULM's defense held Southern Miss to shoot 26.5% from the field and 8.3% from three-point range in the final half of action. The Warhawks totaled 12 second-chance points and 14 points from fast breaks.
 
Bradford scored her first points of the afternoon with a layup in the first minute of action. After a scoreless three minutes of game time, Manuel deposited a bucket to put ULM ahead 4-0. Jakayla Johnson added a steal and score to keep the Warhawks ahead, 6-4 inside four minutes in the quarter. A driving layup by Wells and a Bradford deuce extended ULM's lead to six. Before the final buzzer of the quarter, Wells banked in a shot from the logo and the Warhawks led 13-8 after the first 10 minutes.
 
Gross cashed in her first 3-pointer of the afternoon and ULM sustained its five-point lead. Bradford added another triple and the 'Hawks inched ahead 19-13. Bradford registered her 12^th point of the first half with a three that pushed ULM's advantage to seven. Southern Miss outscored ULM 13-8 in the final 5:10 of the first half and jumped in front of the Warhawks at the break, 34-32.
 
Following a USM layup, Bradford and Wells both fired two points and ULM evened the score, 36-36. Both teams struggled to produce offense in the quarter with both teams scoreless for three minutes. After the Golden Eagles ended the scoring drought with a layup, Johnson swung a pass to Manuel inside for a layup to tie the count at 38. ULM finished the third quarter on a 7-0 scoring run that began with Brianna Harris finding Manuel under the basket for a layup with 2:04 on the clock. Gross sank a massive 3-pointer to give the Warhawks a five-point edge. Manuel delivered a putback layup inside a minute remaining to pull ULM ahead, 45-38.
 
Southern Miss closed the gap to four points with a three-pointer in the first minute of the last quarter. Bradford answered with an offensive rebound and a stepback three-pointer to keep ULM's lead at seven. The Golden Eagles trimmed the Warhawks' lead to four points four separate times in the middle stages of the quarter. Wells lofted a pass to a wide-open Bradford, who drained a three-pointer for her 1,000^th career point at the 4:15 mark of the fourth quarter. Two possessions later, Gross knocked down her third 3-point bucket of the afternoon and ULM led by double figures for the first time all day. Southern Miss would not come within fewer than eight points of ULM's lead down the stretch. The Warhawks concluded their road trip with a 70-58 win over the Golden Eagles.
 
The ULM women's basketball team returns home to Fant-Ewing Coliseum on Thursday (Jan. 25) evening at 5 p.m. to take on Arkansas State.