The women's basketball program at Alabama A&M University is celebrating major postseason honors after both its head coach and one of its standout players earned top awards from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

Alabama A&M University head women’s basketball coach Dawn Thornton and graduate guard Kalia Walker have received major postseason Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) honors, the conference announced on Friday.

South Alabama’s stay in the Sun Belt Conference women’s basketball tournament will last at least one more day, but a fight during the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s victory over Coastal Carolina might help cut short the Jaguars’ late-season surge.

A brawl between the South Alabama and Coastal Carolina women's college basketball team saw eight players get ejected and a referee lying nearly unconscious on the court

Eight players were ejected after a fight broke out in a game between South Alabama and Coastal Carolina at the Sun Belt women's basketball tournament.

The Tigers squared the game at 33-all in the third period, but then the Crimson Tide ran away with this one in South Carolina.

As everyone flips their calendars to March, the countdown to March Madness is on. The first spots are up for grabs as conference tournaments kick off.

The SEC spotlighted Alabama basketball this week, as women's team standouts Karly Weathers and Jessica Timmons earned end-of-year awards.