Arkansas-Pine Bluff was up by five points over the favored Texas Southern men late in the second half on Wednesday, before the Tigers rose to rally for a 50-45 win in the Southwestern Athletic Conference basketball tournament at Garland, Texas. After a series of near misses, and then a bad late-season stumble, they should have [...]
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South Carolina State’s ‘Buddy’ Pough honored by the MEAC
South Carolina State football coach Oliver “Buddy” Pough was recognized this week as the 2011 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s distinguished alumnus for the school during the on-going postseason basketball tournament at Winston-Salem, N.C. Pough, who took over for Willie Jeffries at South Carolina State in 2002, has picked up where his College Football Hall of Fame [...]
A stunner, and an old favorite in the MEAC men’s basketball tournament
In a thrilling finish at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament, No. 6-seeded Norfolk State stunned third-seed Coppin State 55-53 when guard Rob Hampton dropped in a driving layup with two seconds left. The Spartans had been down 51-44 before starting that late run. The loss could signal the end of a long tenure [...]
An ‘Ickey’ situation: Doug Williams completes second staff at Grambling
Doug Williams met with his second staff at alma mater Grambling, completed this week with the addition of a new offensive line coach. He’s reunited with John Montgomery, who was offensive coordinator with Williams at his first coaching stop, Morehouse College. Montgomery has also had tenures at Alabama A&M, at Wichita and Howard with the [...]
Texas Southern is SWAC men’s basketball tournament favorite in more ways than one
When Texas Southern recruits, it recruits big. When it loses, it also loses big. The Tigers have had no trouble this season with the tightly contested battles, but a glance of the SWAC men’s basketball stats shows that Texas Southern’s two league stumbles are by double digits. Message going into this week’s Southwestern Athletic Conference [...]
Alabama State gets SWAC tournament wake-up call with in-state rival
Just when you get ready to crown Alabama State, they go and lose to Grambling — slumping into the SWAC men’s basketball tournament. Luckily, there is an old friend in the form of in-state league rival Alabama A&M to wake up the Hornets. Alabama State, which opens Southwestern Athletic Conference postseason play on March 10, [...]
Close-knit Bethune-Cookman brings impressive road record into postseason
Regular-season MEAC men’s basketball champion Bethune-Cookman has a couple of things working in its favor, going into the postseason: A strong sense of interconnectivity, and a tough-minded attitude about playing on the road. It’s perhaps no surprise that Bethune-Cookman, fresh off its first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title since joining the league, has a close-knit bond. [...]
Complete SWAC men’s basketball tournament bracket
Here’s the schedule for the 2011 men’s SWAC basketball tournament, which begins Wednesday and continues through Saturday at the Special Events Center in Garland, Texas. SOUTHWESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S BRACKET Wednesday, March 9 12:30 pm — Prairie View A&M (7) vs. Jackson State (2) 8:00 pm — Arkansas-Pine Bluff (8) vs. Texas Southern (1) Thursday, [...]
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