Category: College

Bowie State University’s Donna Polk was named Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) Coach of the Week on Jan. 3 for her outstanding coaching throughout two games last week. The third-year coach led the BSU Lady Bulldogs basketball team to two impressive wins, defeating nationally ranked Gannon, 70-52, on day one of the BSU Lady Bulldogs […]

For the first 30 minutes of Georgetown’s Jan. 1 matchup with DePaul, it seemed as if Georgetown was still hung over from a night of New Year’s Eve partying. But Georgetown’s guards eventually took control of the game to lead the team to an 86-75 comeback win. “We were flat,” Georgetown coach John Thompson III […]

Morgan State Bears junior guard Aric Brooks hit two free throws with 13.4 seconds left that turned out to be the difference in a 67-66 victory over Robert Morris University (RMU) at Hill Field House in Baltimore Dec. 31. “When I brought the ball across half court, I was waiting for one of the guards […]

Auburn, Ala. school officials and the family of a Black high school student who was barred from playing basketball because he insisted on wearing his hair in braids settled a racial discrimination lawsuit against the school system Dec. 19. The two sides reached an agreement after the school system decided to standardize its grooming policy […]

Playing their first game in two weeks, the Howard Bison snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 69-65 win over Loyola at Burr Gymnasium on Dec. 22. Sophomore forward Mike Phillips led all scorers with 19 points, and his two free throws with less than nine seconds left helped seal the game as Howard came […]

Two weeks off seemed to do the Morgan State University Bears men’s basketball team some good, as MSU cruised to a 75-62 home victory over the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers on Dec. 18 at Hill Field House. Morgan State (4-4) shot 60.5 percent from the field as sophomore forward DeWayne Jackson scored […]

Georgetown head coach John Thompson III said he was nervous that a week of final exams for his players might have disrupted their focus on basketball. But his feelings were unwarranted as his squad easily dispatched Loyola (Md.), 99-75 Dec. 18. Georgetown missed only one two-point shot in the first half on its way to […]

The Morgan State men’s indoor track and field team had quite a weekend at the Golden Flash Gala, hosted by Kent State from Dec. 10-12. The Bears captured two events and placed three in the top five, while earning seven individual Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) qualifying spots and two IC4A marks. Junior Calvin Dascent won […]

Fuquay-Varina, N.C. – The Bethune-Cookman College Wildcats were voted the Boxtorow.com/BASN HBCU football Power Rankings national champions in the final top10 media and coaches polls. The Wildcats received 10 of 20 first place votes in the media poll and received 14 of 15 first place votes in the coaches’ poll. In the media poll the […]

Auburn junior quarterback Cam Newton has won the Heisman Trophy, college football’s highest award. Newton won in a landslide vote Dec. 11 despite an NCAA investigation that determined that his father attempted to sell his son’s services to the highest bidding school. Investigators found that Cecil Newton engaged in a pay-for-play scheme, but found no […]

Click here to view a slideshow of Coppin State’s victory over West Virginia Tech. Coppin State University’s (CSU) junior forward Antonio Williams and junior point guard Tony Gallo scored 16 points each to help Coppin remain undefeated at home with a 79-63 victory over the West Virginia Tech Golden Bears on Dec. 11 at Coppin […]

Georgetown bounced back from its first loss of the season in a major way, pounding North Carolina’s Appalachian State, 89-60, for their most lopsided win of the season. Georgetown used a balanced attack offensively as six players scored in double figures led by junior guard Jason Clark with 15 points. But Clark’s biggest contribution came […]