WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Senior Cory Jozefiak and sophomore Hector Arroyave finished first and second in the field to lead South Carolina State to the team title at the 36-hole Winston-Salem State Golf Invitational at the par 71, 6,214-yard Winston-Lake Country Club Tuesday.
Hampton University was second at (346-307) 653, followed by host Winston-Salem State at (348-341) 689, Johnson C. Smith University at (390-390) 780 and North Carolina Central University at (489-406) at 795.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
PVAMU set to face Texas State in the WNIT
The PVAMU Lady Panthers are set to kickoff a 2008 Women's National Invitational Tournament run
FORT COLLINS, Colo.- The Women’s Invitational Tournament announced its field of 48 teams on Monday, March 17th with Prairie View A&M scheduled for a first round match-up versus Texas State of the Southland Conference.
Prairie View A&M enters the game with a 22-11 overall record while Texas State brings a 20-10 mark into the contest. The Lady Panthers continue to break barriers under the leadership of head coach Cynthia-Cooper Dyke as this mark their first WNIT appearance.
The Lady Panthers had a history making season as they brought home the schools first out right regular season title in women’s basketball. The Lady Panthers also made history by having three of their players selected for All-Conference First Team honors, which marked the most selections the program has ever received.
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PVAMU Panthers Football Ready To Begin 2008 Spring Camp
Photo: PVAMU head coach Henry Frazier receives celebratory dunking of gator aid after historic seventh win last season.Prairie View A&M Panthers eager to start 2008 title run
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas- Fresh off a history making 7-3 season the Prairie View A&M Panthers football team is set to kickoff their spring workouts. The Panthers 2008 camp will be a valuable tool in assisting the PVAMU coaching staff with the evaluation of their talent as well as accessing needs of improvement.
“Spring football is a huge asset for our coaching staff,” said head coach Henry Frazier III. “The practice sessions give us a great indication as to how well our players are absorbing the schemes and fundamentals that we’re trying to teach them.”
The 2008 PVAMU Panthers football team will feature a veteran unit headlined by the return of over 45 lettermen. Frazier feels that his team’s depth and experience will pay big dividends for the program next season.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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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Banged-up Southern University to host Coppin State
The Southern University baseball team, which hosts Coppin State tonight and has a key Western Division series this weekend at Grambling, is in a world of hurt.Eight position players and two starting pitchers have a variety of injuries.
SU (5-7) hosts Coppin State (2-14), a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, at 6 p.m. today at Lee-Hines Field.
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JSU first opponent for LSU women quest for fifth straight Final Four
Before LSU can worry about traveling 70 miles down I-10 for regional play they must first negotiate the tough terrain waiting for them at home where they will face No. 15 seed Jackson State (18-13) — the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament champion — at approximately 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
The LSU-Jackson State winner faces the survivor of Saturday’s 7 p.m. game between No. 7 Marist (31-2) and No. 10 DePaul (20-11).All four first-round games in Baton Rouge will be televised by ESPN2.
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The LSU-Jackson State winner faces the survivor of Saturday’s 7 p.m. game between No. 7 Marist (31-2) and No. 10 DePaul (20-11).All four first-round games in Baton Rouge will be televised by ESPN2.
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JSU women happy to receive respect with No. 15 seed
There were distinctly different reactions from the Jackson State women's basketball team as the Lady Tigers watched the NCAA Tournament announcements inside the Walter Payton Center on Monday.Observers would have thought JSU's name was called when a graphic showed No. 1 seed Connecticut playing No. 16 Cornell in Bridgeport, Conn. Early predictions had Jackson State playing the nation's top team and there was a sense of thrilled relief in the air.
"I was like, 'Oh Lord', that's a tough team to beat," JSU guard LaSharee Christian said about UConn. "Once we saw Connecticut, it was like now we don't know where we're going to be."
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Arkansas-Pine Bluff basketball coach resigns
PINE BLUFF, ARK. — Arkansas-Pine Bluff coach Van Holt has resigned, saying he had “anticipated better results” but will continue to support the school. The school announced Tuesday that Holt offered his immediate resignation Monday and the school accepted.“It has been a labor of love for me and I believe much has been accomplished,” Holt said in his resignation letter. “I take great pride in the improvements in the program and had anticipated better results and a brighter future. I will continue to be a supporter of UAPB.”
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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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Coppin, Mount ready for date in Dayton
Photo: 6-2 Senior point guard Tywain McKee is from Philadelphia, PA, Bartram H.S.Eagles, Mountaineers hit road for play-in game, chance to make history in tourney
Dayton, Ohio - On some levels, it doesn't make much sense. Two Baltimore-area teams, separated by 45 miles, traveled west almost 500 miles to be here yesterday. Tonight, they'll play an NCAA tournament game that, one could argue, is not really an NCAA tournament game.
It is a bizarre scenario, almost like holding a family get-together in a stranger's house in a state that no one involved has any connection to.
But, at the same time, there is so much at stake for Mount St. Mary's and Coppin State when the play-in game of the 2008 NCAA championship tips off inside the Dayton Arena that the peculiarity of it matters little.
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FAMU football coach, Taylor says jobs are up for grabs
FAMU FOOTBALLMarch 24: Spring practice begins.
April 12: Spring game.
Not every player on Florida A&M's football roster has a lock on his position. New coach Joe Taylor plans to make this spring one that brings changes for the Rattlers.
Taylor, who's made wholesale changes in revamping one of the previous programs where he coached, said he won't be shy if he has to do the same thing at FAMU. He took over the coaching position at the end of December, promising to turn the program around in the wake of a 3-8 season.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
NIT BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: ASU Hornets head West
Alabama State's first foray into the National Invitation Tournament will be a bit more involved than most expected.The eight-seed Hornets will travel to top-seed Arizona State to face the Sun Devils at 10 p.m. on Tuesday night. It's one of the longest trips any team participating in the NIT will make, and one that caught ASU officials off-guard.
"We didn't know what to expect, really," Hornets head coach Lewis Jackson said late Sunday night. "We're scrambling around here now trying to pull something together and get us out there. We're hopeful that we can be out there by 5 p.m. their time tomorrow, but I don't know right now. It's a little crazy."
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MVSU Devils head West to take on UCLA Bruins
Valley faces long odds - 16th seeds are 0-92 against No. 1sHours after Mississippi Valley State had earned its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1996, the fourth in school history, coach James Green was on the road.
He decided to just make the 4-hour trek home immediately after winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament - making a quick stop at a Waffle House in Tuscaloosa for bacon, eggs and coffee.
"I felt like I wasn't going to sleep anyway," chuckled Green, who arrived at 3:26 a.m. "It was good. I talked on the phone most of the way."
Little over 14 hours later Green and his team learned they will travel to Anaheim, Calif., to play No. 1 seed UCLA inside the Honda Center at 8:55 p.m. (CDT) on Thursday. The Bruins (31-3) are the Pac-10 champions and have won an NCAA-record 11 men's basketball championships.
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Mississippi Valley must play UCLA before Bruin "home crowd"
NCAA tournament road is a carpet for one and gravel for the other. A straight and heavenly path for one. A potholed hell for the other.Carpet for one. Gravel for the other.
A straight and heavenly path for one. A potholed hell for the other.
USC and UCLA received their directions Sunday for the Road to San Antonio.
But, no, it's not the same road.
One is going to be dancing, the other is going to be dodging.
UCLA, with the easiest path of all top-seeded teams, plays two simple games(first, Mississippi Valley State) in front of a home crowd in Anaheim, then takes its fans to Phoenix for two more winnable games, its toughest probably coming in the regional final against outclassed but second-seeded Duke.
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The way this writer described the road for USC applies triple for Mississippi Valley State. If USC is travelling on gravel, MVSU is running in quicksand
Morgan State and Alabama State receives no consolation prize in NIT
We are now beginning to wonder why each HBCU program that makes an NCAA or NIT field is nearly always ranked the last seed. This is a head scratch-er for Morgan State University that received an NIT berth as the number eight seed to travel to number one seed Virginia Tech to play the Hokies on March 19, 7 p.m. The Hokies are 19-12 and Morgan State 21-10.
The game will be televised on ESPN Classic for those with cable systems and satellite dishes that receive the channel.
Alabama State University has a more difficult road to travel going to Arizona State University, a number one seed with a 19-12 record. The 20-10 Hornets has to regroup fast for this March 18, 11 p.m. contest that is scheduled for television on ESPN2. Arizona State is purported to be the best team that did not make the NCAA Tournament.
Should we count our blessings that these two HBCU teams made the field of 32 for the NIT Tournament, or grumble that the deck is stacked against them with road games for the entire duration of the tournament, even if they win?
Well, there is always a chance of an upset and we wouldn't dismiss Morgan State and Alabama State, just yet. They are both capable of winning.
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Call a timeout on NCAA selection committee
Group's decisions defy expectations by creating situations that make very little sense
You want wacko? How about the NCAA selection committee putting a couple of Baltimore-area teams in the play-in game tomorrow night in Dayton, Ohio?
Instead of sending Coppin State and Mount St. Mary's to Dayton, maybe they should reconsider and bus the Eagles and Mountaineers to College Park now that Comcast Center is available. Maryland will be playing in the National Invitation Tournament at Minnesota.
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You want wacko? How about the NCAA selection committee putting a couple of Baltimore-area teams in the play-in game tomorrow night in Dayton, Ohio?
Instead of sending Coppin State and Mount St. Mary's to Dayton, maybe they should reconsider and bus the Eagles and Mountaineers to College Park now that Comcast Center is available. Maryland will be playing in the National Invitation Tournament at Minnesota.
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