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Complete MEAC men’s basketball tournament bracket

Complete MEAC men’s basketball tournament bracket

Here’s the schedule for the men’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference basketball tournament, beginning today and continuing through Saturday at the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The winner will earn the MEAC’s automatic bid into the NCAA tounament. MEN’S TOURNAMENT Today’s games, all times Eastern No. 7 Florida A&M vs. No. 10 Maryland-Eastern Shore, 6:30 No. [...]

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The latest SWAC men’s basketball tournament seeding scenarios

The latest SWAC men’s basketball tournament seeding scenarios

Here are the latest Southwestern Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament seeding scenarios, as outlined by the league office on Thursday night … #1 — Texas Southern #2 — If Jackson State defeats Alabama A&M, JSU is #2 seed no matter what Alabama State does vs. Grambling. If there is a 3-way tie between JSU, MVSU, [...]

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Things could go from bad, to worse for the Southern men

Things could go from bad, to worse for the Southern men

Don’t look for things to get much better for the reeling Southern men’s basketball team. With its loss at home to Alcorn State on Feb. 26, the Jaguars logged their ninth stumble in a row and have now officially played their way out of the SWAC tournament, featuring the 10-school league’s top eight teams. Next [...]

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South Carolina State football is in midst of an interesting offseason

South Carolina State football is in midst of an interesting offseason

South Carolina State suffered a rare stumble in 2010, having to settle for a shared title after winning the MEAC two consecutive years. But, so far, the Bulldogs are winning the offseason — both in terms of accollades and headlines.  No sooner had Oliver “Buddy” Pough’s team completed its third straight FCS postseason appearance, when he began [...]

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There’s a familiar ring to some of Melvin Spears’ hires at Alcorn State

There’s a familiar ring to some of Melvin Spears’ hires at Alcorn State

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Melvin Spears leading a SWAC offense, with Michael Roach overseeing the defense. They’ve got Bruce Eugene, too. All three were together for Grambling’s 2001-02 Southwestern Athletic Conference championship runs, and they’ll be together again — this time with Eugene on the sidelines as quarterbacks coach — as Alcorn [...]

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Gritty Alabama State men’s basketball team is SWAC’s most dangerous

Gritty Alabama State men’s basketball team is SWAC’s most dangerous

Meet Alabama State. There might not be a more dangerous men’s basketball team in the SWAC right now. The gritty Hornets are winners now of 7 straight, most recently against league-leading Texas Southern — and convincingly, 60-48. That was just the second loss of the season in Southwestern Athletic Conference play for the Tigers. “Coming [...]

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Bethune-Cookman coach kept MEAC championship under wraps

Talk about your half-time speeches. How about this: You just won the MEAC. That’s what could have happened with Bethune-Cookman, at the mid-point of an eventual 73-60 victory over North Carolina Central. When Morgan State lost to North Carolina A&T on Monday, Bethune clinched the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s regular-season basketball championship — regardless of the [...]

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Bethune-Cookman begins baseball season atop black college poll

Bethune-Cookman begins baseball season atop black college poll

Bethune-Cookman got eight first-place nods from voters in the initial BlackCollegeBaseball.com Division I poll for 2011, opening the new season where it finished last year. Bethune-Cookman is 4-4, similar to fellow Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference foe North Carolina A&T, which received four first-place votes to finish No. 2. Third in the polling was 2-5 Southern of [...]

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