Category: Sports

Three years under head coach David Six, three titles. The Hampton University women’s basketball team won its third straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Tournament title—and the resulting automatic NCAA bid—with a 54-53 nail-biting win over Howard on March 10 at the Joel Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Lady Pirates (26-4) are the first women’s […]

Led by a deep, veteran roster and an incomparable big man, the Norfolk State University (NSU) men’s basketball team is going to the Big Dance for the first time. Senior center Kyle O’Quinn scored 18 points to lead three Spartans in double figures as No. 2 NSU claimed its first MEAC title and NCAA tournament […]

The Hampton University men’s basketball team fell to Bethune-Cookman University, 81-72, in the semifinal round of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Basketball Tournament March 9 at the Joel Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. The eighth-seeded Pirates ended the season 12-21 overall, while No. 4 seed Bethune-Cookman (18-16) advanced to the MEAC championship game March 10, […]

Junior forward Saadia Doyle scored 16 of her game-high 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the second half, and junior guard Tamoria Holmes tallied 13 of her 19 points after intermission, to lead Howard University to a 51-43 win over Florida A&M University in the semi-finals of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) women’s tournament […]

Amarah Williams recorded her fourth double-double of the season, finishing with a game-high and career-tying 19 points, while pulling down a career-high 14 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough as Morgan State dropped a 66-53 decision to North Carolina A&T in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) opening round game on March 5 at the Lawrence Joel […]

Morgan State University won the 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Cheerleading Championship Sunday evening at the Joel Coliseum in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The cheerleading championship is the opening event of the 2012 MEAC Basketball Tournament. Tournament games are scheduled for Monday, March 5-10 at the Joel Coliseum. The Lady Bears captured first place honors […]

Howard University saw three of its best basketball players honored by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference on March 4. Lady Bison stars’ Tamoria Holmes and Saadia Doyle were both named to the MEAC First Team, as voted by the conference’s head women’s basketball coaches and sports information directors. Holmes earned her honor after leading the MEAC […]

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 […]

A year ago, the Winston-Salem State Rams returned to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, won the Southern Division title, and came into the CIAA Tournament as one of the favorites to reclaim its perch among the elite in the conference’s storied century-long history. A loss to Fayetteville State at the buzzer in the tournament’s quarterfinals […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — For a few minutes Friday, first lady Michelle Obama turned the hardwood floor at the Time Warner Arena into an elementary school gym. Obama was in North Carolina for two Democratic Party events in Raleigh and Charlotte. But before those fundraisers, she promoted the “Let’s Move!” fitness program with children from […]