Tony Harvey Stays At TSU

HOUSTON - Texas Southern University basketball coach Tony Harvey told FOX 26 Sports Wednesday he has decided not to pursue the vacant head coaching job at Eastern Michigan. Eagles officials contacted TSU athletics director Charles McClelland Monday to let him know of their interest in Harvey.

Harvey was named Southwestern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after leading TSU to the SWAC regular season championship this past season and a spot in the NIT.

"After carefully evaluating the situation, which I believe is a wonderful opportunity, I have decided to continue with my plans at TSU," Harvey said "

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Texas Southern men's basketball coach Tony Harvey said Wednesday that Eastern Michigan has contacted him about its vacant head coaching position.

Harvey, who grew up in Benton Harbor, Mich., and served as an assistant at Eastern Michigan from 1996-99, led TSU to a 19-13 record in 2010-11 and the program's first Southwestern Athletic Conference regular-season championship since 1998. The Tigers, who went 16-2 in conference regular-season play, failed to reach the NCAA Tournament after being upset in the semifinals of the SWAC tournament but received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament, where they lost to Colorado in the first round.

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Prairie View women to face OU in NCAA tourney

PVAMU Coach Cynthia Cooper Dyke says the major difference this year will be confidence because the seven freshmen from two years ago are now seasoned juniors.

Prairie View guard Shondria Combs could hardly contain herself as the Lady Panthers waited for their NCAA Tournament first-round opponent to be revealed Monday night. It seemed like an eternity had passed. But moments into the NCAA Tournament Selection Show’s second segment, Prairie View’s name and its daunting task were revealed. The 16th-seeded Lady Panthers, making their second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years, drew Oklahoma City Regional No.1 seed Oklahoma in Sunday’s opening round in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Lady Panthers and the crowd in Buffalo Wild Wings erupted despite the obstacle ahead. “I was excited about whoever we were going to play,” said Combs, a junior. “Just being here is exciting because everybody doesn’t get to make it here so getting there is exciting.” But that’s about as far as the gracious talk went Monday night. The Panthers, led by fourth-year coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, said just being happy to be going to the Big Show was for the first time when they lost to North Carolina in the first round.

This time the Panthers (23-10) are thinking about advancing even as they face one of the most dominant players in college basketball in powerful OU senior post Courtney Paris, who is a 6-foot-4 menace in the paint.

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Ekworomadu's three leads Lady Bobcats to improbable win over PVAMU Panthers

Photo: Candice Thomas paced the PVAMU Lady Panthers' attack, contributing 26 of her career-high 40 points in the first half. The 5-9 sophomore guard is from Waco, Texas/University H.S.

SAN MARCOS – Joyce Ekworomadu dribbled right, pulled up and shot a fadeaway three pointer just over a Prairie View A&M defender that rattled in with 1.4 seconds left to give Texas State an 84-83 win over the Lady Panthers and send the Bobcats into the second round of the WNIT.

The win marks the first-ever postseason win for either Texas State men’s or women’s basketball since the Bobcats moved to NCAA Division I prior to the 1987-88 season. It is also the first time a Southland Conference school has won a WNIT game since Northwestern State advanced to the WNIT championship game in 1995.

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ASU Hornets face big test out West

Photo: ASU head coach Lewis Jackson.

ALABAMA STATE AT ARIZONA STATE
When: 10 p.m. today
Where: Wells Fargo Arena, Tempe, Ariz.
Records: Alabama State (20-10); Arizona State (19-12)
On the air: TV -- ESPN2; Radio -- WVAS- FM 90.7

Things got very hectic very fast for the Alabama State coaching staff. After learning about 8 p.m. Sunday that they would be heading to Arizona to play Arizona State in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, the coaches spent the next several hours making travel arrangements, notifying the players and tracking down game film.

Monday morning, they were keeping track of the players and family members as the team gathered at the airport for the trip. Then there was the plane trip out -- complete with a film-study session while on board. Then it was getting everyone settled at the hotel and preparing for an afternoon practice.

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MVSU Devils' Green shows he can still coach this game

Some reward James Green and his Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils get for winning their last nine games and a SWAC Tournament championship. They get fed to bears - the UCLA Bruins, actually. And they are the first course at a picnic in UCLA's own backyard, Anaheim, Calif.

This is basketball's version of human sacrifice, but that's not the point of today's column. The reward for Valley is the trip itself, jetting, for a change, to a game in the national spotlight and a taste of the big time. The reward for Green is, simply, validation. Not that he should need it.

The guy can flat coach. Of course, anybody who has followed his career knows that. Anybody who has read regularly this column in recent years certainly has read that.

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Short trip, rough road for Coppin State Lady Eagles

Photo: Coppin State 2008 MEAC Tournament Champions.

Not getting to travel bothers team more than magnitude of task vs. Terps

In the end, it didn't matter that the Coppin State women's team won its third Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title in four years, that it won 16 of its past 17 games or that it has one of the slickest backcourts in mid-major basketball.

The NCAA sentenced the 22-10 Eagles to a No. 16 seed in the Division I tournament and sent them down Interstate 95 to College Park for a Sunday afternoon, first-round matchup against top-seeded Maryland in the Spokane Regional.

Assembled in a large upstairs room in the school's cafeteria for the ESPN selection show, the Eagles let out a whoosh of disbelief, then clapped at the proceedings.

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Coppin's turnaround fueled by seniors

Photo: CSU 6-7 senior power forward Robert Pressley,#40, Waldorf, MD/Southern Maryland Christian Academy.

After a 4-19 start that included a 1-17 stretch, the Eagles leaned on their five seniors to spark a season-saving surge.

On the first Saturday in December, Fang Mitchell slumped on a wooden bench inside the Coppin Center, contemplating the direction his once-proud Coppin State basketball program was headed. The direction was not good.

The Eagles had just taken a 28-point pounding against Morgan State, the second-worst home loss in Mitchell's 22-year career. As the venerable coach sat there, he bemoaned the lack of leadership and passion, but especially the lack of defense.

"I'm trying to find five people that make the game important to them," he said.

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Suber, Coppin earn return trip to NCAA tourney

Photo: Senior guard Rashida Suber, #22 flips layup for winning shot in the MEAC Championship game with .04 second left in game for Lady Eagles victory.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Rashida Suber saved Coppin State not once, but twice in the final 22 seconds yesterday.

Moments after the senior barely avoided a five-second violation on an inbounds play with a crucial timeout, Suber came out of a scramble at midcourt with the ball, leading to a game-winning, belief-defying scoop shot that beat North Carolina A&T, 72-70, in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference women's championship game.

Just like that, Coppin escaped overtime and went from crying to, well, crying. "They were tears of joy," Suber said, a black MEAC championship hat adorning her head, after she delivered Coppin (22-11) to the NCAA tournament for the third time in four years.

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Coppin State Eagles wins MEAC championship and NCAA berth

Photo: Senior guard Tywain McKee was unstoppable in the CSU Eagles upset of regular season MEAC champions, Morgan State University.

McKee scores 33, wins it for Eagles with :03 left

RALEIGH, N.C. - It ended the way Coppin State had hoped, the ball and the game in Tywain McKee's hands, and the clock running down last night in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship game.

Coppin couldn't have been in better hands.

McKee took Morgan State's Marquise Kately down the lane, then dropped in a floater with three seconds left to lift the seventh-seeded Eagles past the top-seeded Bears, 62-60, last night at the RBC Center.

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Morgan State edges Delaware State

Photo: Guard Reggie Holmes played a magnificent game scoring 18 points and 5 rebounds in 16 minutes of action.

RALEIGH - Reggie Holmes scored 18 points, including 10 of 12 free throws in the final 1:09, to lead Morgan State to 61-55 semifinal victory over Delaware State in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament on Friday.

Top-seeded Morgan State (22-9) will play the winner of the other semifinal game Friday between Norfolk State and Coppin State.

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Price, Tennessee State earn huge win over Austin Peay

Tigers guard will forgo final year

Bruce Price made sure he went out as a winner with Tennessee State's men's basketball team Monday night.

Price decided before the game to forgo his final year of eligibility with the Tigers. He joined the team's four seniors who were honored before the tip-off against Austin Peay at Gentry Center.

Then in the final 46 seconds, Price sank two free throws, stripped the ball from Austin Peay's Ernest Fields under the Governors' basket and pinned a shot by Derek Wright on the backboard to help Tigers hang on for a 73-69 victory before a crowd of 4,857.

"This is where it all started for me and this was a very important game for me,'' Price said. "Even though we weren't hitting our free throws at the end I made sure that I made some good defensive plays with the charges and the block and the strip."

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UMES women's hoops begins important stretch in MEAC

Photo: Corin Adams, sophomore point guard, leads Morgan State with 17.6 points per game (third in the MEAC), 4.7 assists (leading the MEAC) and 4.2 steals (leading the MEAC). Adams is arguably the quickest guard in the league. The 5-7 star is from Madison High School, Brooklyn, NY.

The Hawks could make a big move either way in the next five days, as they take on three of the top five teams, beginning with a trip today to Morgan State, where the Bears (11-7, 5-2 MEAC) are undefeated. Morgan was the first team on the 2007-08 schedule for the Hawks this season, and while UMES (10-8, 3-2) was still trying to find its timing, they had a chance to win, falling 77-71 in a non conference tilt.

"I'm really looking forward to going up and playing Morgan at Morgan," UMES coach Fred Batchelor said. "This is a game that I'm excited about and I believe we're a much better team and a much different team than we were when we first played them. I'm sure that they've improved, as well, but I'm looking forward to getting a chance to play against one of the better teams in the league on their home floor, and I feel very confident that we're going to play well."

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Today's game is at 2 p.m., while the Hawks will head to Coppin on Monday at 5:30 p.m. Both of those games are parts of doubleheaders with the men's team. Wednesday, without the men's team, UMES will begin its game against Delaware State Hornets at 6 p.m. at the Hytche Center.

Winston Salem may bid for 2009 MEAC tournaments

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference is looking for a city for its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and Winston-Salem might be in the running. Commissioner Dennis Thomas of the MEAC said that information on the bid process was sent to Winston-Salem officials. The next step is for the city to submit a proposal to the MEAC, if it’s interested.

Chico Caldwell, the athletics director at WSSU, is a member of the Greater Winston-Salem Sports Commission. He says that the commission has not met to discuss the MEAC Tournament. But Caldwell said that landing the tournament would be a good thing.

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The facility being discussed for Winston-Salem, North Carolina is the Joel Coliseum, which seats 14,500. Norfolk, Virginia is countering with the Scope, which seats 10,000. Richmond, Virginia is also one of the MEAC's targeted cities, expecting to place a bid for the tournaments.

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