Category: Sports

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 […]

The University of the District of Columbia Lady Firebirds Women’s Basketball Team advanced to a 13-7 overall record after cruising by King College, 70-57, Feb. 3 in Bristol, Tenn. It was UDC’s sixth win in seven games and second victory over King this season. UDC was led by graduate student guard Niqky Hughes, who scored […]

Georgetown threw every defense imaginable at Providence guard Marshon Brooks, but he couldn’t be stopped. Fortunately for Georgetown, basketball is a team sport and the Hoyas were able to overcome Brooks’ 43 points to survive an 83-81 nail-biter at the Verizon Center. “He’s a special player who had a special day,” Georgetown coach John Thompson […]