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Coaching basketball is Flint native Deonta McChester’s passion in life. McChester, 28, is now one step closer to fulfilling his lifelong dream of leading his own program in the college basketball ranks. The former head coach of the Flint Monarchs semi-pro team will now work as an assistant for the women’s basketball program at Claflin University this season. McChester will [...]

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 [...]

Xavier University of Louisiana’s SiMon Franklin and Carmen Holcombe have been selected to the All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference preseason women’s basketball team by the GCAC head coaches. The conference announced the team Wednesday. Franklin, a 5-foot-7 senior guard from Baton Rouge, La., and a graduate of St. Joseph’s Academy, was All-GCAC in 2011-12 and the MVP of the GCAC Tournament, [...]

Delaware State University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Ed Davis announced today that he is retiring from his position, ending a 12-year coaching career at DSU. Since becoming the Lady Hornets’ head coach in the 2000-2001 season, Davis compiled a 178-182 overall record – making him the University’s all-time leader in career women’s basketball wins. During the recently concluded 2011-12 season, [...]

N.C. Central has parted ways with 16-year women’s basketball coach Joli Robinson after a 3-27 season, her fifth straight losing campaign. NCCU won just one conference game in its return to full NCAA Division I and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference status. That left the Lady Eagles in last place at 1-16, 3-27 overall. NCCU athletics director Ingrid Wicker-McCree announced Monday that [...]

Hampton is not taking the perceived slight of being seeded No. 16 in the women’s NCAA tournament lying down. Rodney Smith, HU’s vice president for administrative services, sent a letter dated Tuesday to Greg Christopher, chair of the Division I women’s basketball committee. The letter said, in part: “In comparison with other teams that were seeded better than Hampton University, [...]

Last season, the NCAA women’s tournament selection committee surprised Hampton coach David Six, giving the Lady Pirates a 13th seed, the highest ever earned by a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference team and a spot higher than the 14thseed Six expected. On Monday, the committee surprised Six again — but not in a good way. HU, which bettered last year’s 25-7 mark [...]

The West Virginia State women’s basketball program is enduring defections and will have an entirely different look next season. It all started when West Virginia State assistant coach Megan Withrow turned in her resignation on March 5. Withrow played collegiately at Division I programs UNC-Wilmington and Marshall. She was also a standout at Nitro High. The defections continued, going from [...]

The Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers took home their fourth Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament title with a 63-50 win over Alcorn State on Saturday at the Special Events Center. A national television audience on ESPNU watched as the Lady Panthers earned the SWAC automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The tournament bracket will be announced Sunday night on ESPN. Tournament [...]

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 [...]

MEAC officials announced Tuesday that three women’s basketball players, including two from N.C. A&T, were suspended from Monday’s conference games because of an altercation during the Aggies’ game Saturday at S.C. State. The A&T players were Jaylan Bodiford and Tiffanie Adair. With the 2012 MEAC Basketball Tournament looming, one can only wonder how this will affect  North Carolina A&T’s chances [...]

For the first time all season Lady Tiger head coach Donnita Rogers started Markisha Patterson, Brittney Allen, Jasher Blocker, and Tonishea Mack all in the same game, for it would be their last time stepping foot in the Fred Hobdy Assembly Center as a player. The final home game for the Lady Tigers (13-13, 9-7 SWAC) 2011-2012 season concluded with [...]

Hampton University senior guard Jericka Jenkins was named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America ® Division I Women’s Basketball Third Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Jenkins (Lancaster, Texas), a Criminology/Criminal Justice major with a 3.71 GPA, has started in 24 games for the Lady Pirates this season. This is the first time [...]

Greensboro, N.C.–Over 40 Head Coaches have surpassed the 500 Career win mark in NCAA Dvision One Womens Basketball. With two more victories, North Carolina A&T’s Patricia Cage-Bibbs will join that exclusive club. However, she will become the first Head Coach from a HBCU program to reach the milestone. The Aggies are on the road for their next two games against [...]

enior guard Tamoria Holmes hit a three-pointer in the last six seconds of regulation to secure a 50-49 victory for Howard in an exciting Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) matchup against Coppin State University (15-11 overall, 10-3 MEAC). This marks the first 20-win season for the Lady Bison since the 2000-01 campaign when the team went 21-10 under head coach Cathy [...]

What if as a senior in college, you had the responsibility of being a full-time student-athlete as well as a single-parent of two while also maintaining a job to support yourself and two kids? For most, this would probably seem like an impossible scenario, but for Miles College senior forward Sammeika Thomas this is a reality and one that she [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -Prairie View A&M’s 55-53 loss to Alabama A&M on Monday night was accompanied with a bit of controversy. Latia Williams of the Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers scans the defense. (Chris Jones) After a defensive stop by the Lady Panthers with about one minute left in the game, freshman point guard Jeanette Jackson traveled after a dead ball [...]

Grambling State’s freshman duo led the way Monday night,and the Lady Tigers’ second half offensive woes are seemingly over. “That’s what we’re working on, being able to finish,” said head coach Donita Rogers. “You also have to look at [the fact that] we’re still starting two freshman in Savannah Carter and Cierra Ceazer. The Lady Tigers outscored the Lady Braves [...]