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Red-Hot NSU Defeats Savannah State, 70-54
SAVANNAH, Georgia – For the third game in a row, the Norfolk State men's basketball team shot better than 60 percent overall, and the result on Monday night was a 70-54 victory over Savannah State in MEAC action at Tiger Arena.
The Spartans hit 28-of-45 from the field (62.2 percent) to win their third in a row and fifth in the past six games. The victory moved their record to 7-1 in conference play, with all seven victories coming by at least 14 points. NSU improved to 14-9 overall.
Junior RaShid Gaston had 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting and 13 rebounds for his second straight double-double. He had 11 points in the second half as NSU pulled away from the Tigers after SSU had cut the deficit to just six.
Gaston had eight points during a 12-4 run midway through the second stanza. NSU later went on a 15-4 spurt right near the end of the game to go up by as much as 19.
Savannah State (5-15, 1-5 MEAC) led in the early part of the game, but NSU took a 10-point lead at the break. The teams traded buckets early in the second half before Savannah State scored six straight to get to within six, 39-33, at the 14:20 mark. Freshman Jordan Butler stopped the bleeding with a three-point play, and Gaston scored eight points during a 12-4 run for the Spartans that made it 54-39 with 6:27 on the clock.
The Tigers made one last run. Alante Fenner sank a pair of free throws at 3:55 to cap an 8-1 run, cutting the Spartan lead to eight, 55-47. NSU, though, scored 15 of the next 19 points in the game to put Savannah State away for good.
The Spartans connected on 16-of-24 in the second half. For the game, they also shot 5-of-12 from 3-point range.
NSU had its good and bad moments in the contest. The Spartans had a big edge on the glass, 38-20, and outscored the Tigers by a 20-8 margin in second chance points. Butler had a career-high five blocks, helping the Spartans finish with a 10-0 edge in rejections for the night.
For the second game in a row, though, NSU had more than 20 turnovers. Savannah State had just 10 giveaways compared to 21 for the Spartans, although NSU still led in points off turnovers, 13-10.
Along with Gaston, NSU had three other players in double figures. Junior Jeff Short added 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting, while junior D'Shon Taylor added 13 on 5-of-7 shooting. Senior Jamel Fuentes scored 10 points on 4-of-7 field goal attempts for his first double-figure scoring game of the season.
Savannah State shot 20-of-55 (36.4 percent) for the game, including a 1-of-12 effort from beyond the arc. Brian Pearson led the Tigers with 14 points.
Pearson sank a pair from the free throw line to give Savannah State an early 11-7 lead four and a half minutes into the contest. The Spartans then held the Tigers scoreless for nearly five and a half minutes. Their 7-0 run only got the lead to three, 14-11, as Fuentes finished it off with a jumper in the lane.
Senior Malik Thomas put NSU up by eight, 25-17, after sinking back-to-back 3-pointers, the latter near the right corner with 5:02 to go before intermission. The Spartans led by as much as 11 after Gaston hit a pair of layups with less than two minutes left, and NSU went into the half up 31-21.
Thomas had seven points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals. Butler totaled five points, six rebounds, five blocks, two assists and two steals.
NSU will return home to host Hampton in the Battle of the Bay on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Joseph Echols Hall.
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The Spartans hit 28-of-45 from the field (62.2 percent) to win their third in a row and fifth in the past six games. The victory moved their record to 7-1 in conference play, with all seven victories coming by at least 14 points. NSU improved to 14-9 overall.
Junior RaShid Gaston had 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting and 13 rebounds for his second straight double-double. He had 11 points in the second half as NSU pulled away from the Tigers after SSU had cut the deficit to just six.
Gaston had eight points during a 12-4 run midway through the second stanza. NSU later went on a 15-4 spurt right near the end of the game to go up by as much as 19.
Savannah State (5-15, 1-5 MEAC) led in the early part of the game, but NSU took a 10-point lead at the break. The teams traded buckets early in the second half before Savannah State scored six straight to get to within six, 39-33, at the 14:20 mark. Freshman Jordan Butler stopped the bleeding with a three-point play, and Gaston scored eight points during a 12-4 run for the Spartans that made it 54-39 with 6:27 on the clock.
The Tigers made one last run. Alante Fenner sank a pair of free throws at 3:55 to cap an 8-1 run, cutting the Spartan lead to eight, 55-47. NSU, though, scored 15 of the next 19 points in the game to put Savannah State away for good.
The Spartans connected on 16-of-24 in the second half. For the game, they also shot 5-of-12 from 3-point range.
NSU had its good and bad moments in the contest. The Spartans had a big edge on the glass, 38-20, and outscored the Tigers by a 20-8 margin in second chance points. Butler had a career-high five blocks, helping the Spartans finish with a 10-0 edge in rejections for the night.
For the second game in a row, though, NSU had more than 20 turnovers. Savannah State had just 10 giveaways compared to 21 for the Spartans, although NSU still led in points off turnovers, 13-10.
Along with Gaston, NSU had three other players in double figures. Junior Jeff Short added 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting, while junior D'Shon Taylor added 13 on 5-of-7 shooting. Senior Jamel Fuentes scored 10 points on 4-of-7 field goal attempts for his first double-figure scoring game of the season.
Savannah State shot 20-of-55 (36.4 percent) for the game, including a 1-of-12 effort from beyond the arc. Brian Pearson led the Tigers with 14 points.
Pearson sank a pair from the free throw line to give Savannah State an early 11-7 lead four and a half minutes into the contest. The Spartans then held the Tigers scoreless for nearly five and a half minutes. Their 7-0 run only got the lead to three, 14-11, as Fuentes finished it off with a jumper in the lane.
Senior Malik Thomas put NSU up by eight, 25-17, after sinking back-to-back 3-pointers, the latter near the right corner with 5:02 to go before intermission. The Spartans led by as much as 11 after Gaston hit a pair of layups with less than two minutes left, and NSU went into the half up 31-21.
Thomas had seven points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals. Butler totaled five points, six rebounds, five blocks, two assists and two steals.
NSU will return home to host Hampton in the Battle of the Bay on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Joseph Echols Hall.
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Mike Bello, Asst. SID
COURTESY NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION
UAPB Rips Prairie View A&M, 105-68
PINE BLUFF, Arkansas -- The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Men's Basketball Team won their third straight as the Golden Lions defeated Prairie View A&M University, 105-68 here Monday night at the H.O. Clemmons Arena.The contest was originally to be aired on ESPNU, but due to inclement weather in Bristol, Conn., ESPN was unable to broadcast the game. UAPB's next scheduled television appearance will be on February 16 against Alcorn State on the SWAC Digital T.V. at the H.O. Clemmons Arena, with the Lady Lions tipping off at 5:30 p.m. and the Golden Lions tipping off at 7:30 p.m.
This is the first time that UAPB has scored 100 –plus in a game in seven seasons. The last the Golden Lions reach the century mark in a contest was during the 2008-09 season, when UAPB defeated Alcorn State, 101-77.
PVAMU jumped out to a 6-2 lead start the contest with a Jacoby Green three pointer, followed by a Montreal Scott free throw and a put-back by Reggis Onwukamuche with18:23 to go in the half.
UAPB tied the contest at 6-6 on back-to-back scores by Thaddeus Handley and Devin Berry at the 17:47 mark of the half.
Scott gave the Panthers a 12-11 lead with his made three pointer with 15:31 left in the first.
The Golden Lions answered with a 10-0 run to take a 22-12 lead on a Marcel Mosley jumper with 11:40 left in the half.
PVAMU cut UAPB's lead to 25-23 on a Green put back with 7:22 to go, capping an 11-3 run by the Panthers.
UAPB ended the first half with a 25-10 run to take a 50-33 lead into the break.
The Golden Lions finished the first half shooting a blazing 67.9 percent (19-of-28), while PVAMU shot 52.2 percent (12-of-23).
UAPB opened the second half with an 18-7 run to take a 68-40 lead, capped off by a Hammond three pointer with 16:07 to go in the game.
The Golden Lions extended their lead to 81-51 on a Trent Whiting field goal at the 10:37 mark.
Whiting scored the Golden Lions 100th point with his made free throw giving UAPB a 100-63 lead with 2:37 left in regulation.
Mosley and Austin Cox scored the Golden Lions finals points of the contest with three pointer by Mosley and a pair of made free throws by Cox for the 105-68 finale.
PVAMU (5-15, 3-4 SWAC) had three Panthers to score in double-figures with a Scott scoring a team high 16 points, followed by Josh Brisco with 12 and Green with 10. Tre Hagood led the Panthers on the boards with seven, while Hagood dished out a team high five assists.
UAPB (6-15, 3-4 SWAC) had a quintet to score in double-figures with Mosley scoring a game high 26 points to lead all-scorers, followed by Hammond with 17, Handley added 15, and Whiting dropped in 13, while JoVaughn Love finished with 10. Whiting led the lead Golden Lions on the boards with eight, while Mosley dished out a game high seven assists.
The Golden Lions will return to action on Saturday, January 31 as they travel to Grambling, La., to take on Grambling State at Frederick C. Hobdy Assembly Center in a 5 p.m. start.
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Is $1 billion too high a price for a new Florida State University engineering school?
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- $1 billion -- it seems like a lot of money to pay for new separate, but supposedly equal, engineering schools in Florida. But that's been the push of Florida State University president John Thrasher who has coveted splitting the exisiting school that serves FSU and Florida A&M University.
As a former state senator, Thrasher pushed hard to get a bill through the Florida Legislature to split the engineering school away from Florida's historic black university in hopes of boosting the national image of garnet and gold. Of course, the FAMU nation wanted no parts of a break-up.
Now as FSU president, Thrasher faces the reality of what the dreams of an individual engineering school with cost his university. According to a new study released this week, breaking up the school could cost $1 billion and would draw legal challenges on civil-rights grounds.
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Separate FSU-FAMU engineering schools could cost $1 billion, study says
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Splitting the engineering school shared by Florida State University and Florida A&M University into separate programs could cost $1 billion and draw legal challenges on civil-rights grounds, according to a new study on the issue.
But the report, from the California-based Collaborative Braintrust Consulting Firm, also says that changes are needed at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering if it remains a single institution.
In many ways, the final version of the study is similar to an early draft. It maintains that the start-up costs of a separate FSU engineering program that could help the university gain national prominence would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and that a Supreme Court ruling on education segregation known as the Fordice decision could double that.
"The cost to set up a new FSU engineering college that has the scope of a top 25 public engineering college is estimated at $500 million," the report says. "The Fordice decision seems to imply that the same $500 million would need to be invested in the FAMU engineering college. Hence, the overall cost to set up a two-college system may be prohibitive."
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McDonald's 3-Pointer Lifts NCCU to 55-54 Win Over DSU
DURHAM, North Carolina – Anthony McDonald scored a game-high 23 points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 27 seconds left, to lift North Carolina Central University to a 55-54 win over Delaware State on Monday night in front of a live television audience on ESPNU.
An electrifying, near-capacity crowd inside McDougald-McLendon Gym energized the host Eagles from an eight-point second-half deficit to their 31st consecutive home victory, the third-longest home win streak in Division I men's basketball.
A home court celebration seemed improbable when Delaware State senior guard Amere May was fouled in the act of attempting a three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left on the clock. Needing two free throws to tie and all three to win, the 83 percent free-throw shooter toed the line and, with more than 3,000 fans roaring, calmly drained the first freebie. After a timeout, May, who made all seven from the charity stripe up to this point, missed his second free throw and a chance to win in regulation. His last attempt, the potential game-tying free throw, also bounced off the rim, sending the fans to mid-court for a post-game party.
During NCCU's game-changing 9-0 run, Jordan Parks deflected a pass, Jamal Ferguson tracked down the loose ball, and, while falling out of bounds, tossed a blind pass over his head to a wide open Parks, who brought down the house with a thunderous two-handed slam.
McDonald finished the night with four three-pointers and was a clutch 9-for-10 from the free-throw line to lead NCCU (16-5, 8-0 MEAC). Senior point guard Nimrod Hilliard, who left the game with an apparent knee injury, but returned to spark the Eagles' comeback, finished with 13 points, five assists and two steals.
Delaware State (10-10, 4-2 MEAC) was topped by Tyshawn Bell with 13 points, while May ended with 12 points.
NCCU will attempt to extend its 10-game win streak when visiting East Tennessee State on Jan. 31.
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An electrifying, near-capacity crowd inside McDougald-McLendon Gym energized the host Eagles from an eight-point second-half deficit to their 31st consecutive home victory, the third-longest home win streak in Division I men's basketball.
A home court celebration seemed improbable when Delaware State senior guard Amere May was fouled in the act of attempting a three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left on the clock. Needing two free throws to tie and all three to win, the 83 percent free-throw shooter toed the line and, with more than 3,000 fans roaring, calmly drained the first freebie. After a timeout, May, who made all seven from the charity stripe up to this point, missed his second free throw and a chance to win in regulation. His last attempt, the potential game-tying free throw, also bounced off the rim, sending the fans to mid-court for a post-game party.
During NCCU's game-changing 9-0 run, Jordan Parks deflected a pass, Jamal Ferguson tracked down the loose ball, and, while falling out of bounds, tossed a blind pass over his head to a wide open Parks, who brought down the house with a thunderous two-handed slam.
McDonald finished the night with four three-pointers and was a clutch 9-for-10 from the free-throw line to lead NCCU (16-5, 8-0 MEAC). Senior point guard Nimrod Hilliard, who left the game with an apparent knee injury, but returned to spark the Eagles' comeback, finished with 13 points, five assists and two steals.
Delaware State (10-10, 4-2 MEAC) was topped by Tyshawn Bell with 13 points, while May ended with 12 points.
NCCU will attempt to extend its 10-game win streak when visiting East Tennessee State on Jan. 31.
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S.C. State gets key MEAC win over Hampton
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- Improved defense and a balanced scoring effort helped South Carolina State (7-15, 5-3) match its Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference win total from a season ago with a key 65-56 victory over Hampton Monday night before 707 fans at Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center.
With nine games to play, the Bulldogs sit tied for third place in the MEAC standings and remain in the thick of the conference’s regular-season title race.
“There’s plenty of games left,” S.C. State head coach Murray Garvin said. “We’re still competing to try to win a regular season title. We’re coming out and competing, not just to finish a game but to compete for a championship.”
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