Friday, October 5, 2012

Shaw women picked to win division in CIAA

RALEIGH, North  Carolina  -  Shaw’s women have been picked to win the CIAA’s Southern Division basketball championship this season, while the Bears men are the preseason pick to finish second in the division. The Bears’ Sequoyah Griffin, a senior guard from Columbus, Ga., was also named the preseason all-conference women’s team.

St. Augustine’s women were the preseason choice to finish fourth in the Southern Division. Johnson C. Smith, which lost to Shaw in the championship game of last season’s CIAA tournament, was picked second, with Winston-Salem State fourth, Fayetteville State fifth and Livingstone sixth.

Virginia Union is the pick to win the Northern Division’s women’s title, followed by Virginia State, Bowie State, Elizabeth City State, Chowan and Lincoln.  In the men’s poll, Shaw was picked to finish second in the South behind Winston-Salem State, with St. Augustine’s predicted to finish sixth. Falcons forward Joel Kindred, who played at Raleigh’s Word of God Academy, made the preseason all-league team. Bowie State was picked to win the Northern Division men’s championship, followed by Elizabeth City State, Virginia Union, Virginia State, Lincoln and Chowan.

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