BCU Wildcats Use Comeback for 6-5 Win Over Florida Gulf Coast

Lozada stays white hot with perfect 4-for-4 evening

Daytona Beach, Fla. - Bethune-Cookman University used an amazing four-run seventh inning to grab a come-from-behind 6-5 victory over Florida Gulf Coast on Tuesday night at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach.

B-CU (11-6) started out the day with two runs in the second and third inning, respectively, to go ahead 2-0 early in the contest.

Senior shortstop Jose Lozada's team-leading third homerun of the season came with a solo shot to left to lift the `Cats, 2-0 in the third frame.

Freshman starter Samuel Rodriguez seemed to have little trouble on the mound until the fourth frame when the visitors from Ft. Meyers, Fla. Took aim at the freshman.

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Carter says future could be bright for SCSU Men

It takes Tim Carter a few seconds to find the word to describe his just-completed inaugural season as South Carolina State men's basketball coach.

When he does, the word of choice is more than understandable and fitting following a campaign which saw the Bulldogs lose the most games in school history.

"Without a doubt, I was say this was the most challenging year in my coaching career," Carter said Monday.

The 13-20 overall record only tells a part of the story for what Carter experienced in his first season. Taking over a program demoralized by three straight losing seasons and the controversy which ultimately led to the firing after one season of predecessor Jamal Brown and a brutal non-conference schedule, Carter faced the dual challenge of trying to erase the damage on the fly while putting together a winning product on the floor.

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Coach: Hampton U 'ahead of schedule'

Photo: Coach Kevin Nickelberry

Year 2 with Kevin Nickelberry shows the progress of a new era at Hampton University.

Hampton University men's basketball coach Kevin Nickelberry's glass is half full this week as he assesses his second season on the job.

His Pirates finished 18-12 overall, 11-5 and tied for second place in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Hampton, seeded second, fell to seventh-seeded and eventual champion Coppin State 75-74 in overtime in a conference tournament quarterfinal last Wednesday.

But Nickelberry isn't bemoaning the early exit or making excuses. He talked all season about working toward long-term goals for the program and continued to do so after the dust cleared on his second season.

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Coppin State falls to Mount St. Mary's, 69-60

Mount St. Mary's gets first NCAA win in three tries to earn Friday game against UNC.

DAYTON, Ohio - The Mount finally got The Win.

Mount St. Mary's, a Maryland school known for getting drubbed in its previous two appearances in the NCAA tournament, got this one started with a nice-looking win Tuesday night in the opening game.

A 69-60 victory over Coppin State set up a daunting second game for the Mountaineers (19-14), who immediately started preparing for their next opponent.

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Patience not for Ben Jobe--Part III

"From the 1940s on into the '50s and '60s, the greatest basketball players in this country and many of the greatest coaches - were black. Problem was, hardly anybody knew it." Howie Evans, sports editor of the Amsterdam (N.Y.) News

There are certain historical facts the average college basketball fan doesn't know. Most have probably heard of Clarence "Big House'' Gaines of Winston-Salem State, who won 828 games between 1946-93.

But how many knew John McLendon, who won 523 games in 22 years at five different schools, was the first college coach to win three national championships (1957-59 at Tennessee State)?

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Signs of times stay with Ben Jobe--Part II

Son of sharecropper says growing up in segregated South left plenty of scars

In his sunset years, Ben Jobe often thinks of his father. Much of what he became - and much of what he accomplished as an educator and basketball coach and valued counselor to hundreds of young black men during the Civil Rights Movement - goes back to the lessons he learned from an uneducated man with uncommon common sense.

"My father was a Tennessee sharecropper who couldn't read or write,'' said Jobe, the youngest of 15 children. "He always worked. He was a workaholic, and so was my mother. But they taught us things we'll never forget.''

One day the family was chopping cotton in rural Rutherford County. Ben, who was 7 or 8 years old at the time, looked up and saw a car passing on a dusty road. "Why do the white people got a car and we don't?'' he asked his father. "Why does Mr. Caldwell got a car and all we got is ol' Jake?''

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Ben Jobe helps tell forgotten story--Part I

Former Alabama A&M coach gives perspective to hoops during Civil Rights era

Dan Klores' initial idea was to do for basketball what famed filmmaker Ken Burns did for the Civil War and baseball.

"I was going to make the quintessential film on the history of basketball, starting with James Naismith and going right on up to the present day,'' said Klores, an acclaimed New York-based producer-director whose documentary topics included boxer Emile Griffith.

That was the plan.

"Then I got caught up in the forgotten story of basketball at the HBCUs - Historically Black Colleges and Universities - and how all that tied in with the Civil Rights Movement in the '60s, and that's when everything changed,'' said Klores

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