Category: College

The Shaw University Bears men’s basketball team advanced to the CIAA Finals after an 82-69 victory against the Johnson C. Smith University Golden Bulls (JCSU) on March 4 at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. Shaw advanced to the CIAA championship by doing what it always does against JCSU: score points. Shaw was victorious […]

Brigham Young University sophomore forward Brandon Davies, a force in BYU’s nationally ranked starting lineup, has been dismissed from the basketball team indefinitely for admitting to having sex with his girlfriend, according to several news reports. The Salt Lake Tribune reported March 2 that BYU officials met with Davies on Feb. 28 to discuss his violation of the school’s honor code, which as stated […]

The University of District of Columbia women’s basketball team couldn’t have ended their season better than they did Feb. 27, crushing Urbana University’s Lady Blue Knights, 84-60, for third place in the Independent Invitational Women’s Basketball Classic in Washington, D.C. UDC not only sealed their winning season with an impressive 19-9 record (a seven wins […]

Saadia Doyle, forward with the Howard University women’s basketball team, was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week on Feb. 28 after an impressive week of play. The redshirt-sophomore from Atlanta, Ga., led the Lady Bison with an average of 20.0 points and 10.5 rebounds, shooting 51 percent from the field and […]

Morgan State men’s basketball team has one of the best “big man” combinations in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) with junior Kevin Thompson and senior Rodney Stokes patrolling the paint. But even they couldn’t stop Norfolk State’s Kyle O’Quinn, who dominated on the inside, scoring a game-high 23 points to help Norfolk State get by […]

University of Maryland-Eastern Shore junior Hillary Haley poured in 15 of his game-high 26 points in the second half and senior Freddie Obame Obame scored all eight of his points during a key stretch to help UMES pull away to a 73-63 win over Howard University in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) game on Feb. […]

The Norfolk State University women’s basketball team played like champions on Feb. 26. It was also the institution’s Alumni Day, a day when the school recognized all of its past championship teams, and celebrated its ring ceremony for its 2009-10 women’s and men’s cross country, indoor and outdoor championship teams. Freshman guard Rae Corbo scored […]

Despite a valiant effort, Georgetown suffered its second straight loss in its first game without injured senior point guard Chris Wright, falling to Syracuse, 58-51. Georgetown struggled to score even before Wright broke his hand in the second half of the Feb. 23 loss to Cincinnati, and his absence for a full 40 minutes only […]

The Morgan State University (MSU) men’s basketball team earned its third straight win with a 67-62 victory over the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Keydets on Feb. 19 at Hill Field House in Baltimore. Morgan State junior forward Kevin Thompson led a “big man” attack that simply couldn’t be stopped by the undersized VMI in a […]

It didn’t take much time for the University of District of Columbia (UDC) women’s basketball team to get over its Feb. 16 loss to local rival Bowie State. The team bounced back with an impressive 85-43 thrashing of Central State University at Beacom/Lewis Gymnasium in Wilberforce, Ohio on Feb. 19. The game was practically decided […]

Howard University men’s basketball team ended a two-game losing streak on Feb. 19, with a surprising home victory against a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) cohort with a far better record than the Bison. Howard (6-20 overall, 4-9 MEAC) is second from last in the MEAC and usually struggles against better ranked conference opponents, but they […]

Delaware State senior forward/center Brittany Washington scored a game-high 16 points and pulled down eight rebounds, while freshman guards Tasia Bristow and Kianna Conner added 13 and 12 points, respectively, to lead the visiting team to a 59-47 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) victory over Morgan State on Feb. 19 at Hill Field House in Baltimore. […]