Category: College

Howard University men’s basketball team has already lost several players to injuries this season, including team captain Calvin Thompson. They would lose yet another major contributor on Valentine’s Day as leading scorer and rebounder Mike Phillips missed the entire second half of a 76-68 loss to Norfolk State (8-16 overall, 6-6 in the MEAC) in […]

Fuquay-Varina, N.C. – “FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW,” the sports talk radio show that places major emphasis on HBCU sports, released its fifth annual national rankings of the top 10 HBCU football FCS recruiting classes for 2011.  FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW first ranked the top classes in 2006. The rankings […]

Senior guard Kyle Riley scored a team-high 14 points and sophomore guard Anton Dickerson added 13 points in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome the production of the North Carolina A&T bench as Howard University fell, 68-49, in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) game on Feb. 12 at the Corbett Sports […]

The University of District of Columbia (UDC) women’s basketball team picked up its third straight win after routing the Salem International Fighting Lady Tigers, 98-48, on Feb. 12 in Salem, W.Va. The win marked the second straight game UDC has scored at least 97 points, this time with the bulk of the points coming from […]

The Howard University Lady Bison basketball team suffered its first loss in six games as they fell to the North Carolina A&T Lady Aggies, 58-54, Feb. 12 in Greensboro, N.C. Howard redshirt-sophomore forward Saadia Doyle nearly recorded a double-double with a team-high 18 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore guards Cheyenne Curley-Payne and Tamoria Holmes also […]

Georgetown hasn’t struggled much offensively during its current winning streak but, off-balance against a pesky Marquette squad, the Hoyas scrapped their way to an eighth consecutive win with a 69-60 victory Feb. 13 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. “We didn’t play well,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. “You have to give credit […]

Fuquay-Varina, N.C. – For the second-straight week the two top-ranked teams in both the Boxtorow.com HBCU Division I and Division II/NAIA national basketball power ranking polls are unanimous selections. Hampton received all of the first place votes in the Division I poll.  The Pirates are winners of three-straight games and six of their last seven.  […]

Morgan State University women’s basketball head coach Donald Beasley picked up his 90th career victory after leading his team to 55-45 win over the Bethune-Cookman Lady Wildcats on Feb. 7 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. The victory also advanced their current win streak to four games and marked their second straight win […]

The Howard Bison men’s basketball team lost its 18th game of the season over the weekend after falling to N.C. Central State, 79-70, at Burr Gymnasium on Feb. 5. But it didn’t take them long to bounce back with a victory, making light work of South Carolina State, 65-53, in another Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference contest […]

Junior guard Landon Clement scored 23 of 26 points in the second half, including a clutch three-pointer with the shot clock winding down, and senior guard C.J. Wilkerson added 16 of his 20 points after intermission to lead North Carolina Central to an emotional 79-70 win over Howard in a non-conference men’s game on Feb. […]

Morgan State University men’s basketball team suffered its third loss in five games as they fell to the Florida A&M Rattlers (FAMU), 63-59, on Feb. 5 at the Al Lawson Center in Tallahassee, Fla. The loss marked the first time FAMU beat Morgan State since Jan. 17, 2009. With the win, A&M advanced to 8-1 […]

Sophomore guard Moneshia Davis came off the bench to score 15 points and senior guard Brittany Dodson added 13 points to lead Morgan State to a 63-54 overtime victory over host Florida A&M (FAMU) in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) game on Feb. 5 at the Al Lawson Center in Tallahassee, Fla. The win was […]