Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Hot Start Carries CBU Lady Bucs Past Lane Dragons


ECSU Vikings Coaches Show returns this Thursday 6:30 PM on WRVS-FM 89.9


ECSU Vikings Can't Catch Catawba On Icy Shooting Night



Chowan Roars Back To Hold Off UNC Pembroke Braves



Chowan Hawks Continue Strong Start With Win Over Cheyney


Hunter’s Career-Night Propels Gaels To Largest Win Of Season Over Bethune-Cookman





PVAMU's Dobbins Named College Sports Madness SWAC Player of the Week


Johnson has career night in Grambling State home victory



Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Hot shooting leads Southeast Missouri past Mississippi Valley




PVAMU Panthers' Run Comes Up Short At Louisiana Tech



GAME RECAP: Panthers' Run Comes Up Short At Louisiana Tech

Balanced Attack Leads Appalachian State Men's Basketball Past Howard Bison





NAIA Releases 2018-19 Division I Men's Basketball Conference Ratings - 12/3/18


American Midwest Conference
1. Missouri Baptist (5-0 / 10-0)
2. Central Baptist (Ark.) (3-0 / 8-0)
3. Harris-Stowe State (Mo.) (2-2 / 6-2)
4. Columbia (Mo.) (2-2 / 5-4)

Frontier Conference
1. Carroll (Mont.) (2-0 / 11-0)
2. Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) (2-0 / 8-1)
3. Providence (Mont.) (1-1 / 7-2)
4. Rocky Mountain (Mont.) (1-1 / 7-2)

Golden State Athletic Conference
1. The Master's (Calif.) (2-0 / 8-1)
2. Arizona Christian (1-1 / 7-1)
3. Westmont (Calif.) (1-1 / 6-2)
4. Hope International (Calif.) (1-1 / 7-2)
4. William Jessup (Calif.) (2-0 / 7-3)
6. Vanguard (Calif.) (0-0 / 7-0)

Gulf Coast Athletic Conference
1. Dillard (La.) (0-0 / 7-4)
2. Tougaloo (Miss.) (0-0 / 8-2)
3. Xavier (La.) (0-0 / 5-5)
4. Talladega (Ala.) (1-0 / 9-3)
5. Southern-New Orleans (La.) (0-0 / 6-8)
6. Edward Waters (Fla.) (0-0 / 3-5)
7. Philander Smith (Ark.) (0-0 / 1-9)
8. Rust (Miss.) (0-1 / 0-6)

Heart of America Athletic Conference
1. William Penn (Iowa) (5-1 / 11-1)
2. Benedictine (Kan.) (6-0 / 9-2)
2. Peru State (Neb.) (4-0 / 7-1)
4. Graceland (Iowa) (3-2 / 7-3)
5. MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) (3-3 / 7-3)
6. Central Methodist (Mo.) (3-3 / 8-3)
7. Baker (Kan.) (3-3 / 6-5)
8. Mount Mercy (Iowa) (2-3 / 4-4)
9. Clarke (Iowa) (2-3 / 4-6)
10. Culver-Stockton (Mo.) (2-4 / 5-5)
11. Missouri Valley (1-4 / 3-5)
12. Grand View (Iowa) (1-4 / 4-5)
13. Evangel (Mo.) (0-5 / 1-8)

Mid-South Conference
1. Campbellsville (Ky.) (0-0 / 11-0)
2. Georgetown (Ky.) (0-0 / 11-1)
3. Pikeville (Ky.) (0-0 / 11-2)
4. Cumberlands (Ky.) (0-0 / 9-2)
5. Life (Ga.) (00-0 / 8-3)
6. Cumberland (Tenn.) (0-0 / 6-3)
7. Shawnee State (Ohio) (0-0 / 6-4)
8. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) (0-0 / 4-4)

Red River Athletic Conference
1. LSU Alexandria (La.) (0-0 / 8-1)
2. Wiley (Texas) (0-0 / 7-1)
3. LSU Shreveport (La.) (0-0 / 7-4)
4. St. Thomas (Texas) (0-0 / 6-2)
/5. Huston-Tillotson (Texas) (0-0  2-3)

Sooner Athletic Conference
1. Langston (Okla.) (2-0 / 9-0)
2. Oklahoma City (1-1 / 6-2)
3. John Brown (Ark.) (3-0 / 7-2)
3. Wayland Baptist (Texas) (2-0 / 7-2)
5. SAGU (Texas) (1-1 / 6-1)
6. Science & Arts (Okla.) (1-1 / 7-2)

Southern States Athletic Conference
1. Faulkner (Ala.) (2-0 / 8-0)
2. Stillman (Ala.) (1-0 / 8-0)
3. William Carey (Miss.) (2-0 / 4-4)
4. Loyola (La.) (1-1 / 5-3)
5. Bethel (Tenn.) (1-1 / 5-3)
6. Middle Georgia State (1-1 / 6-1)

 Highlighted: HBCU Institutions

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Hampton Men Second, Women Third in Big South Indoor Track Preseason Poll


ASU's lead SIAC Director of Athletics Association


Kentucky State Thorobreds part ways with head football coach John L. Smith


A XULA 1st: Black earns All-America honorable mention

NEW ORLEANS — Before Tuesday, no Xavier University of Louisiana volleyball student-athlete ever had earned recognition on an NAIA All-America team. But that changed with the announcement of the Gold Nuggets' Kayla Black as one of 63 receiving honorable mention.
     

Xavier University of Louisiana women's volleyballBlack, an outside hitter from Spring, Texas, and a graduate of St. Pius X High School in Houston, set XULA season marks in 2018 with 407 kills, 3.84 kills per set and 23 matches of 10-or-more kills. Black also produced 28 aces, 299 digs, 22 blocks and 18 assists. She hit .259, 21 points higher than a year ago. Black played in all 33 matches and in 106-of-112 sets.
     

The Gold Nuggets were 26-7 this season and 14-0 in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. For the eighth consecutive year they won GCAC regular-season and tournament championships and qualified automatically for the NAIA National Championship tournament.
     

On Tuesday Black was announced as the first XULA sophomore to be chosen first-team all-region. Black's other honors this season included GCAC Player of the Year and Attacker of the Year and GCAC Tournament MVP.
     

The NAIA's All-America list consists of 14 players apiece on the first, second and third teams. It is headed by Nada Meawad of national champion Park, a sophomore outside hitter who was named Player of the Year.

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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Nuggets receive votes in 1st regular-season ranking

Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketballNEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana, voteless in the previous seven NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 polls, collected 10 points Tuesday to tie for 30th in the first regular-season ranking of the 2018-19 season.

The Gold Nuggets are 9-3 after a 60-57 home victory Monday against Mobile to give them their second four-game win streak this season. XULA's most notable victories were 59-47 Friday at Southeastern Louisiana — the Nuggets' first victory since 2007 against an NCAA Division I opponent — and 67-64 at home Nov. 6 against city rival Loyola, ranked 17th in the preseason poll.
The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, of which XULA is a member, made one of its best showings in the poll in recent years. For the first time since March 9, 2016, the GCAC has two top-25 teams — Talladega is 15th, Dillard 25th — and three GCAC teams received points for the first time since Oct. 25, 2016.

It's the first time since Jan. 21, 2014, that three GCAC teams received points in a regular-season poll.
The Gold Nuggets will begin semester exams Wednesday. They will resume their schedule at 2 p.m. Dec. 15 at Louisiana-Lafayette.

For the first time in five years, the No. 1 team in the preseason is No. 1 in the first regular-season poll. That's Vanguard (7-0), which received 7-of-9 first-place votes and edged defending champion Freed-Hardeman (9-0) by five points. Wayland Baptist (6-0) is third.

NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses — records through Dec. 2)
RANK PREVIOUS SCHOOL RECORD POINTS
1 1 Vanguard (Calif.) (7) 7-0 218
2 5 Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) (2) 9-0 213
3 6 Wayland Baptist (Texas) 6-0 201
4 4 Columbia (Mo.) 8-1 200
5 3 Campbellsville (Ky.) 6-1 194
6 12 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 9-1 183
7 2 Shawnee State (Ohio) 8-2 176
8 7 Carroll (Mont.) 6-2 173
9 9 Montana Western 4-0 160
10 10 Oklahoma City 8-1 150
11 8 Westmont (Calif.) 6-2 148
12 15 Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) 5-1 147
13 18 Providence (Mont.) 7-2 133
14 16 Menlo (Calif.) 7-0 132
15 NR Talladega (Ala.) 10-1 119
16 21 Bethel (Tenn.) 9-2 114
17 13 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 6-3 101
18 24 Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 8-1 98
19 20 Lyon (Ark.) 6-1 95
20 RV William Penn (Iowa) 8-1 93
21 22 Arizona Christian 6-4 77
22 14 The Master's (Calif.) 5-3 76
23 NR Baker (Kan.) 10-1 67
24 11 Central Methodist (Mo.) 6-3 59
25 RV Dillard (La.) 8-3 40
Others receiving votes: Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 39, William Woods (Mo.) 32, Mid-America Christian (Okla.) 31, LSU-Alexandria (La.) 15, Xavier (La.) 10, Clarke (Iowa) 10, Huston-Tillotson (Texas) 9, William Jessup (Calif.) 6, Faulkner (Ala.) 3, Georgetown (Ky.) 3

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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FAMU Athletics Mourns the Loss of Al Frazier


MEAC Announces Weekly Men's Basketball Honors


MEAC Women's Basketball Pushes Through Early December


SWAC MBB Player of the Week: Dec. 4



NCCU’s White Named NCCSIA All-State Volleyball Team


Chowan Hawks Men's Basketball Ranked In D2SIDA Region Poll