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Byron Westmorland had a huge night in leading Bowie State to the CIAA championship. The senior forward scored a career-high 38 points including 26 points in the second half to outduel Livingstone’s Mark Thomas and help Bowie State break open a tight game for an 85-74 victory over Livingstone in the CIAA finals at Time Warner Cable Arena on Saturday. [...]

The Howard University women’s basketball team continues its home stand with a Monday night match up with South Carolina State University at 5:30 p.m. in Burr Gymnasium. HU opened the four-game Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference event with a 53-41 win over Savannah State on Saturday, Feb. 2. While senior Saadia Doyle led in points with 16, nationally ranked assist leader Cheyenne [...]

The Lady Pirates took turns at the free-throw line in the last minute of play against Morgan State on Saturday at Hampton University’s Convocation Center. Beating Morgan State 66-60, HU (13-5, 4-0 MEAC) will maintain its No. 1 spot in the conference. The Lady Pirates had a slow start and allowed Morgan State to lead 25-23 at halftime. Morgan State [...]

It will be a full decade next year since the South Carolina State men’s basketball team last appeared in the NCAA tournament. The rest of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference apparently believes this dry spell will continue. Coming off the worst season in school history, the Bulldogs were picked to finish last by the conference’s head coaches and sports information directors. [...]

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference released the 2012-13 preseason rankings and honors early Tuesday afternoon and the Delaware State University women’s basketball team is predicted to finish 11th in the league while redshirt sophomore Tierra Hawkins (Clinton, Md.) was selected to the MEAC Preseason All-First Team. The Hornets received a total of 160 points in the preseason poll, as voted on [...]

Grambling State University has reassigned both men’s basketball coach Bobby Washington and women’s coach Donnita Rogers to positions within the department. In three years as head coach — one with the interim tag — Washington led the Tigers to a first-round SWAC tournament upset of Jackson State in 2010 and to the SWAC tournament title game for the first time [...]

North Carolina A&T has fired men’s basketball coach Jerry Eaves. Eaves went 99-180 during his nine years at the school.The school confirmed the firing on Tuesday, according to WXII 12′s Kenny Beck. Eaves’ last game was a 51-50 loss to Howard at last week’s MEAC tournament in Winston-Salem.N.C. A&T hasn’t announced a replacement for Eaves. Read more at WXII

Unlike Jacksons State of 2010 and Texas Southern of 2011, the top- seeded Mississippi Valley entered the SWAC tournament as favorites and did not disappoint. If you never seen the Delta Devils in the Big Dance before, you will see it in this year’s NCAA tournament. Kevin Burwell scored 19 points to lead the Delta Devils in another tough match up [...]

The 2011-2012 Daktronics Men’s and Women’s Basketball All-South Region Teams were recently announced with three players from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) receiving honors. Benedict College center Marcus Goode made the men’s second team while Albany State University guard April Thomas and Clark Atlanta University guard Conisha Hicks both made the women’s second team. Goode, the SIAC Player of [...]

Kyria Buford, Aslea Williams and Brittany Ransom combined for 70 points to  send Shaw past West Virginia Wesleyan, 92-78, in the first round of the NCAA  Division II women’s tournament. The Lady Bears (24-6) will face Gannon, which defeated Johnson C. Smith  61-50, in the second round, Saturday at 5 p.m. in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Buford led all scorers with 28 [...]

The SIAC basketball tournament is more than just a week of basketball games. Its a homecoming and family reunion all in one. Friends and family all traveled to Atlanta to watch & support their schools. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is full of talent and competition. People from all over the South gathered inside of Forbes Arena. Day 1: February [...]

The 100th Annual CIAA Basketball Tournament. Photography by Victor Harper.

The 2012 SWAC Tournament promises to be a week filled with great basketball and exciting events. Taking place on Wednesday, March 7, will be SWAC Goes Hip-Hop. The ancillary event is being hosted at The PROPHET Bar in Dallas, Texas, and will feature Grambling State graduate DJ Low Down Loretta Brown; better known as Erykah Badu. Accompanying her, will be [...]

Day 3 Recaps Game #1- Benedict College vs. Stillman College (Men) (SIACM07) #4 Benedict defeats #5 Stillman (86-85) ATLANTA–Day three of the 2012 SIAC Tournament began with a shootout between Stillman College and Benedict College in the battle of the Tigers. Stillman’s Damian Ford missed the backend of a double bonus, allowing Benedict to escape with an 86-85 win in [...]

Game #1 – Stillman College vs. Claflin University (Men) (SIACM03) #5 Stillman defeats Claflin (93-69) ATLANTA, GA- In the first game of the day Stillman College the #5 seed matched up against the #12 seed Claflin University, who defeated Lane College in the opening round yesterday. It was Stillman College from the opening tap as Lee Riley fired in a [...]

Bethune-Cookman head men’s basketball Coach Gravelle Craig has been reprimanded by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) for displaying unsportsmanlike conduct to the games’ officials following the Wildcats’ contest versus Norfolk State University on Saturday, February 25. MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas said in a statement on Monday that “the conference expects all coaches and athletic staff to demonstrate good sportsmanship before, [...]

The CIAA tournament has experienced unprecedented growth over the past decade and interim Commissioner Peggy Davis has no plans to let that momentum slip. Her goal is to build a stronger CIAA. This week the conference comprised mostly of historically black colleges and universities celebrates its 100th year anniversary when its signature events – the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments [...]

The Norfolk State Spartans failed to exorcize the demon that has become Delaware State on Wednesday night. Now they need help if they are to win the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s regular-season title. And the Spartans will probably have a nightmare or two about the six-point lead they blew in the game’s last three minutes. They will lament the 10-1 run [...]