The Gulf South Conference has released the full bracket for the 2022 GSC Basketball Championships and the third-seeded Lee women (22-6, 15-5) will begin tourney play by hosting sixth-seeded Mississippi College on Tuesday at 6 p.m. A victory would advance the Lady Flames to the semifinal round Saturday at the Pete Hanna Center on the campus of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama against the winner of second-seeded Valdosta State and seventh-seeded West Alabama.
 
Union University is the tournament's top-seed and faces eighth-seeded Montevallo University. Fourth-seeded West Florida and (fifth-seeded) Delta State will be battling for the right to challenge the winner of Union and Montevallo. The championship game is slated for Sunday.
 
"We are excited to host another quarterfinal game, but we also know every team is capable of winning this time of the year. Only good teams are left, and we will need to be at our best if we expect to move on," said Lee coach Marty Rowe as he looked over the bracket. "Mississippi College is playing well right now and will pose a great challenge for our team. They are talented, deep and play extremely hard. Coach (Greg) Long is doing a great job of building his program and this is one of the teams we expect to continue to grow in our league." 
 
The Choctaws are coming off a Saturday win against West Alabama and are 15-12 overall and 10-10 against GSC competition. Ally Alford is the leading scorer (13.4 ppg). The freshman tallied 23 points and pulled down nine rebounds in the January 20 75-65 loss to the Lady Flames. Dezirae King scored 13 points. The junior is the Choctaws top rebounder (6.5 rpg) and totaled 17 points in the win at West Alabama to wrap up regular season play.
 
The Lady Flames score 72 points per game and hold opponents to 58. Haley Schubert is the top scorer (16.6 ppg) and (5 apg). Halle Hughes stands at 11.5 ppg and is one of the team's top rebounders (5.5 rpg). She also shoots over 40% from long range. Hannah Garrett rounds out the double-figure scorers (10.1). Julia Duncan has come back from a concussion and is scoring almost 10 points per game and hitting 84% of her free throws. Cam Grant has taken over the Lee board work (6 rpg).
 
The game can be heard locally on the Mix 104.1 FM. Live streaming of the game will be through www.FloSports.com and will require a subscription to view all GSC postseason games.