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Twenty years after Southern men's basketball posted its lone NCAA tournament win, the Jaguars will venture west looking to conjure up a historic, bracket-busting win.

The Jaguars learned Sunday they are Salt Lake City bound as the No. 16 seed in the West Region to face No. 1 seed Gonzaga Thursday, March 21, 2013, at EnergySolutions Arena.

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center will hold its annual "Connecting Businesses with Contracts" Procurement Conference, Thursday, April 4, 2013. The event will kick-off with registration at 7:30 a.m. in the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union on the Southern University A&M College campus, 500 Jesse N. Stone Avenue, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Southern University will celebrate its 133rd Founders' Day 2013, with a series of activities. The special recognition of the University's history is titled "Meeting Challenges, Building Alliances, Creating Opportunities."

The SUBR celebration kicks off Thursday, March 7, with a Community Prayer Breakfast. Southern University Shreveport will celebrate Founders’ Day, Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

Southern University Shreveport Counseling Center and Student Activities will sponsor a Campus/Community Health Fair Wednesday, March 20, 2013, from 8 a.m. until noon in the Health and Physical Educational Complex (gymnasium).

The Southern University Law Center will celebrate its 65th Anniversary during the 2013 SULC Round-Up, April 10-13, 2013, in Baton Rouge.

Movie director and producer John Singleton, who rocketed to national attention with his first movie "Boyz n the Hood," will speak at Southern University Baton Rouge at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 3, 2013,

in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union.

With 119,636 votes cast, Southern University's M-9 student cheering section claims 16th place to advance to the second round of voting in the Naismith Student Section of the Year Award. Fans and supporters also helped the popular cheering section place at the top among the SWAC schools participating in the contest.

Southern University Baton Rouge will be offering scholarships and information on exciting paths of study at "College Night on the Bluff" set for Tuesday, February 26, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center is holding its 70th Annual Livestock Show for youth participants and families, through March 2, 2013, at the Maurice Edmond Livestock Arena, 14600 Scenic Hwy, Baton Rouge.