Johnson has career night in Grambling State home victory

Johnson has career night in home victory https://t.co/DseVrhbIg4

— GSU Athletics (@GSU_TIGERS) December 5, 2018

Lasani Johnson with a career-high 30 points, including a career-best seven 3-pointers as the Tigers cruise past the Gents #RespectTheG #grambling #gramblingstate #gramblingstateuniversity #WhyNotGrambling pic.twitter.com/r5qynMEOTX

— GSU Athletics (@GSU_TIGERS) December 5, 2018

Hot shooting leads Southeast Missouri past Mississippi Valley

Hot shooting leads Southeast Missouri past Valley https://t.co/PeXtsuMzlg

— MVSU Athletics (@MVSUDevilSports) December 5, 2018

Final from the Harrison HPER Complex. Dante Scott (pictured) led the Delta Devils with 19 points. pic.twitter.com/dHobKyamwr

— MVSU Athletics (@MVSUDevilSports) December 5, 2018

Redhawks Power Past Mississippi Valley State, 77-57, for First True Road Win https://t.co/cBKfPczEK1

— SE Missouri Redhawks (@GoSoutheast) December 5, 2018

PVAMU Panthers' Run Comes Up Short At Louisiana Tech

RECAP | Bracey, Jean Pace #DunkinDogs in 82-68 Win on 36-Year Anniversary of the TAC

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🔗 https://t.co/YVfkNCsm9W pic.twitter.com/Bi8ESZy7SM

— #DunkinDogs 🐶🏀 (@LATechHoops) December 5, 2018

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

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

MBB FINAL SCORE: .@HUMensBB 86, @AppStateMBB 100
Back in action Saturday (Dec. 8) when crosstown foe @AU_MBasketball comes to The Burr. Tip-off at 4 p.m.#BleedBlue #OurTime #MEACMBB pic.twitter.com/litpk1X9gW

— Howard Athletics (@HUBisonSports) December 5, 2018

We saw 5⃣ players reach double figures, including 21 points each from @JustinForrest_1 and @RonShabazz_02 and a season-high 20 points from @TyrellJ32 https://t.co/hjsxQaIkHx

— App State Basketball (@AppStateMBB) December 5, 2018

We improve to 3-0 at home with a 100-86 victory over Howard on Tuesday evening pic.twitter.com/qbgRi9XDMt

— App State Basketball (@AppStateMBB) December 5, 2018

App State 84, Howard 62 | 7:12 2H@JustinForrest_1 finds @HunterSeacat for the easy basket pic.twitter.com/XBCx0OyK3Z

— App State Basketball (@AppStateMBB) December 5, 2018

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

Langston Men's Basketball Ranked Sixth in the NAIA Men's Basketball Top 25 Poll

Men's Basketball Ranked Sixth in the NAIA Men's Basketball Top 25 Poll
- https://t.co/OFIhwyUG4C pic.twitter.com/7vpQXy4xJ3

— Langston Athletics (@LangstonSports) December 4, 2018

Langston Lady Lions Push Past Texas College 74-66

Lady Lions Push Past Texas College 74-66
- https://t.co/GEdiiAEzrz pic.twitter.com/EfgjyR415E

— Langston Athletics (@LangstonSports) December 5, 2018

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

MEN SECOND, WOMEN THIRD IN @BigSouthSports INDOOR TRACK PRESEASON POLL #REspectTheH #BigSouthMade https://t.co/Gvm77ny9U2

— Hampton Athletics (@HUAthletics1868) December 3, 2018

ASU's lead SIAC Director of Athletics Association

Congratulations to our Albany State Golden Rams Athletics Director, Sherie Gordon. She has been appointed chair of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Director of Athletics Association. #AlbanyStatehttps://t.co/eazQ9dWsso

— Albany State Univ (@AlbanyStateUniv) December 3, 2018

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

KSU parts ways with John L. Smith #KSUForward https://t.co/fglK5Sy3PT

— KSU Thorobreds (@KYSUAthletics) December 4, 2018

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.
     
Black, 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.

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Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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Nuggets receive votes in 1st regular-season ranking

NEW 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

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Department of Athletics & Recreation
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FAMU Athletics Mourns the Loss of Al Frazier

FAMU loses one of it's greatest athletes: https://t.co/iCu8tpdcOz

— FAMU Athletics (@FAMUAthletics) December 4, 2018

MEAC Announces Weekly Men's Basketball Honors

#MEACMBB MEAC Announces Weekly Men's Basketball Honors https://t.co/QtIgTSV6Cp

— Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (@MEACSports) December 4, 2018

MEAC Women's Basketball Pushes Through Early December

#MEACWBB: @MEACSports Women's Basketball Pushes Through Early December #IBackTheMEAC https://t.co/DbTNFZPQRQ

— Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (@MEACSports) December 4, 2018

SWAC MBB Player of the Week: Dec. 4

#SWACMBB Player of the Week: @Bulldogs_Hoops guard Arthur Johnson averaged 16.5 PPG and 5.0 RPG in two contests this week, raising his season average by a full point. MORE: https://t.co/t4uLoIJ5yR pic.twitter.com/8gasvJkkx9

— The SWAC (@theswac) December 4, 2018

NCCU’s White Named NCCSIA All-State Volleyball Team

NCCU’s White Named NCCSIA All-State Volleyball Team @NCCUvolleyball https://t.co/922VsytXF1

— NCCU Athletics (@NCCUAthletics) December 4, 2018

Chowan Hawks Men's Basketball Ranked In D2SIDA Region Poll

Hawks Men's Basketball Ranked In D2SIDA Region Poll https://t.co/ha9JUPygN2

— Chowan Athletics (@cuhawks) December 3, 2018

UDC Shaneika Bowra Earns East Coast Conference Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week

Shaneika Bowra Earns @ECCSports Track Athlete of the Week https://t.co/cOhWn10OmK @NCAADII @udc_edu @Team_UDC #FirebirdIsRising @USTFCCCA

— UDC Firebirds (@UDCAthletics) December 3, 2018

Firebirds Impress at Indoor Track & Field Season Opener at Eastern Shore Cappy Anderson Invitational

UDC Women's Indoor Track & Field Impresses in Season Opener at Cappy Anderson Invite https://t.co/yfHQxxdTAi @NCAADII @ECCSports @udc_edu @USTFCCCA #FirebirdIsRising

— UDC Firebirds (@UDCAthletics) December 3, 2018

BSU Bulldogs Women's Basketball Ranked 5th in D2SIDA Atlantic Region Poll

Bulldogs Women's Basketball Ranked 5th in D2SIDA Atlantic Region Poll https://t.co/1qiMbRbnPE

— BSU Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) December 3, 2018

Bowie State Excelled at the Navy Winter Invitational Opener

Bowie State Men's Track and Field Excelled at the Navy Winter Invitational Opener https://t.co/Y2Z4EdUCO7

— BSU Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) December 3, 2018

Men's Indoor Track Action at Navy (12118) https://t.co/iXqxr25CbE

— BSU Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) December 3, 2018

Bowie State Bulldog Women's Track and Field Opens Season at the Navy Winter Invitational

Bulldog Women's Track and Field Opens Season at the Navy Winter Invitational https://t.co/fFdJHHuhqG

— BSU Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) December 3, 2018

Womens Indoor Track Action at Navy (12113) https://t.co/c1faCMxCx7

— BSU Athletics (@BSU_Sports_Info) December 3, 2018

MEAC Announces Weekly Women's Basketball Honors

#MEACWBB: @MEACSports Announces Weekly Women's Basketball Honors #IBackTheMEAC https://t.co/OYwphNYoQE

— Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (@MEACSports) December 4, 2018

SWAC WBB Player of the Week: Dec. 4

#SWACWBB POW: @TSUWomensHoops forward Niya Mitchell claims the honors after averaging nearly a double-double over the past week. Mitchell had 15 pts and 7 reb in a win over Savannah State, and notched a 12-pt, 11-reb double-double at Michigan State. MORE: https://t.co/LCofDHbgNV pic.twitter.com/OyzfN5chID

— The SWAC (@theswac) December 4, 2018