Author Archives: Sherri Fillingham

We are going to give them a game worthy of television.” Shaw head coach Jacques Curtis had said those words in a press conference prior to the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. His players made him a prophet on March 23 as Shaw came from an 11-point halftime deficit to claim an 88-82 overtime […]

“We are going to give them a game worthy of television.” Shaw University head coach Jacques Curtis said those words prior to the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship, and his players made him a prophet as Shaw came back from an 11-point halftime deficit to claim an 88-82 overtime victory March 23 over No. […]

Shaw battled back from an eight-point deficit in the second half to down No. 14 Pittsburg State University (PSU), 61-58, and advance to the NCAA Division II Final Four for the second straight year March 20 in Bill Greehey Arena at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The Lady Bears outscored the Gorillas 9-1 […]

Three Lady Bears scored double-doubles to lead Shaw past No. 15 Rollins, 87-71, in a game played March 21 at Bill Greehey Arena on the campus of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. With the win, the Lady Bears advanced to play No. 2 Ashland for the Division II NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship March 23. […]

The timing may have been slightly different – last year the two met in the first round of the NCAA Division II Tournament – but the ending was the same: Shaw downing nationally ranked Edinboro on their way to an NCAA Atlantic Region title. This year, the two met in the regional finals, but the […]

Shaw University wins again in the latest matchup between two of the CIAA’s premiere women’s basketball programs. Tournament MVP Aslea Williams scored 17 points as Shaw toppled Johnson C. Smith University 72-66 on March 3 in the CIAA championship game at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. The Lady Bears captured their second straight […]