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Dawn Brown Named Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach at Prairie View A&M

Dawn Brown Named Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach at Prairie View A&M

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Former Tougaloo College assistant coach Dawn Brown will join the Prairie View A&M University women’s basketball coaching staff for the 2010-11 season, PVAMU head women’s coach Toyelle Wilson announced on Wednesday. A 2005 graduate of Jackson State University, Brown spent the previous four years as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator [...]

Former Prairie View A&M Basketball Standouts Sign Professional Baketball Contracts

Former Prairie View A&M Basketball Standouts Sign Professional Baketball Contracts

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS – Three former members of the Prairie View A&M men’s basketball team have moved on to the next level by signing professional contracts to play overseas. Signing to play abroad is the trio of forwards Darnell Hugee, Dorian McDaniel and point guard Chris Jones. Hugee inked with Saint Vallier Basketball Drome of [...]

Prairie View A&M Men’s Basketball Names Ansar Al-Ameen Assistant Coach

Prairie View A&M Men’s Basketball Names Ansar Al-Ameen Assistant Coach

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M men’s basketball program recently added Ansar Al-Ameen to the coaching staff as an assistant coach. Al-Ameen joins the Panthers after spending the past two seasons at Texas Southern University. Al-Ameen replaces associate head coach Talvin Hester who has accepted a position on the staff at San Jose [...]

SWAC Presidents and Chancellors Select Garland, Texas for Basketball Tournament Site

SWAC Presidents and Chancellors Select Garland, Texas for Basketball Tournament Site

Three-year deal has the SWAC crowning its basketball champions in Dallas metro thru 2013 Birmingham, Ala. – The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted Tuesday to approve the bid submitted to the league office by The Special Events Center in Garland, Texas to host the SWAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament [...]

Mississippi Valley State Ranked in Top 100 in Recruiting Class of 2010-2011

Mississippi Valley State Ranked in Top 100 in Recruiting Class of 2010-2011

The Mississippi Valley State men’s basketball program continues to find success in the recruiting field. The Delta Devils program has been ranked in the top 100 in the nation in recruiting for the second consecutive season. HoopScoopOnline.com ranks men’s basketball recruiting across the nation while providing national news and reports. The site has ranked the [...]

Prairie View A&M Names Toyelle Wilson as Head Women’s Basketball Coach

Prairie View A&M Names Toyelle Wilson as Head Women’s Basketball Coach

Prairie View A&M University Athletic Director Fred Washington announced today the promotion of Toyelle Wilson to head coach of the women’s basketball team. “We’re glad to have been able to retain Coach Wilson and are excited about the future of our women’s basketball program,” said Washington. “Wilson has been a part of all the success [...]

Grambling’s Lady Tigers Announce Basketball Signees

Grambling’s Lady Tigers Announce Basketball Signees

Grambling, LA—The Grambling State Lady Tiger’s basketball program announced today two early commitments for the 2010-2011 basketball season. Aricia Mitchell (6-1, F/C, Tyler, TX), a transfer from St. John’s University, played in 63 games over two seasons for the Red Storm recording 280 points and 198 rebounds. Mitchell prepped at John Tyler High School in [...]

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Steps Down as Prairie View A&M’s Coach

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Steps Down as Prairie View A&M’s Coach

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Cynthia Cooper-Dyke has stepped down as head women’s basketball coach at Prairie View A&M University to accept the vacant women’s head basketball coaching position at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. “Coach Cooper is very deserving of an opportunity to coach anywhere and this will give her the opportunity to showcase [...]

Bobby Washington

Washington Named Grambling State Head Men’s Basketball Coach

Grambling, LA—Almost seven months after taking over the interim helm of the program, Bobby Washington has been named the tenth head men’s basketball coach at Grambling State University as announced by GSU Athletic Director Lin Dawson.  In his inaugural campaign Washington returned Grambling to the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament for the first time in two years [...]

PVAMU’s Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

PVAMU’s Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Indianapolis, Indiana—Prairie View’s women’s basketball head Coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke has added yet another accolade to her illustrious career as she will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame announced a total of eight individuals and two teams that were named as the Enshrinement Class of 2010. [...]

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Men’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-29-2010)

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Men’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-29-2010)

The Final HBCU Men’s Major Division Basketball Top 10, with number of first-place votes, record in parentheses, total points, previous ranking, last opponent and next opponent: Name——————————–Record-–1PV-Points–PWR–Next Game-(Season Complete) 1. %-@-Morgan State——(27-10)-(10)–98–—–1-—(Season Complete) 2. #-Jackson State——-(19-13)———86—–2-—(Season Complete) 3. &-Arkansas P. B.—-(18-16)–——76——-3-—(Season Complete) 4. S. C. State————–(18-14)———–62–—–4-—(Season Complete) 5. Delaware State—-—-(17-12)———59-——5-—(Season Complete) 6. Alabama State———(16-15)——-—-40-——6-–(Season Complete) [...]

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Women’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-29-2010)

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Women’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-29-2010)

The Final HBCU Women’s Major Division Basketball Top 10, with number of first-place votes, record in parentheses, total points, previous ranking, last opponent and next opponent: Name———————————-Record-–1PV-Points-PWR–Next Game-(Season Complete) 1. %-@-N. C. A & T State-(23-11)—(5)—91——1-—(Season Complete) 2. #-Southern-————–(23-9)—-(4)—87-—–2–(Season Complete) 3. &-Hampton——-——–-(20-12)—(1)—81-—–3-—(Season Complete) 4. Morgan State–————(17-13)———78-—–4-—(Season Complete) 5. Florida A & M———–(18-11)——-—-57-—–5-–(Season Complete) 6. Bethune-Cookman———(17-15)———–43——6-—(Season [...]

Prairie View A&M Wins NCAA/SWAC ‘Pack the House’ Challenge

Prairie View A&M Wins NCAA/SWAC ‘Pack the House’ Challenge

Prairie View A&M was one of 33 winners in the NCAA Division I “Pack the House” Challenge. “Pack the House” is national effort in which conferences and institutions compete to build attendance. NCAA Division I women’s basketball marketing staffs selected a home game and designated that date as a “Pack the House” game with the [...]

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Men’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-22-2010)

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Men’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-22-2010)

The HBCU Men’s Major Division Basketball Top 10, with number of first-place votes, record in parentheses, total points, previous ranking, last opponent and next opponent: Name——————————–Record-–1PV-Points–PWR–Next Game-(3-21-10/3-28-10) 1. %-@-Morgan State——(27-10)-(10)–97–—–1-—(Lost to West Virginia in NCAA Tournament (77-50), Season Complete) 2. #-Jackson State——-(19-13)———88—–2-—(Lost to Mississippi State in NIT Tournament (81-67), Season Complete) 3. &-Arkansas P. B.—-(18-16)–——75——-4-—(Beat [...]

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Women’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-22-2010)

TSPNSports/Cavil’s Classic Cuts HBCU Women’s Division I Basketball Poll (3-22-2010)

The HBCU Women’s Major Division Basketball Top 10, with number of first-place votes, record in parentheses, total points, previous ranking, last opponent and next opponent: Name———————————-Record-–1PV-Points-PWR–Next Game-(3-21-10/3-28-10) 1. %-@-N. C. A & T State-(23-10)—(5)—93——3-—(Beat Charlotte in WNIT Tournament Quarterfinals (79-70), NIT Regional Semifinals) 2. #-Southern-————–(23-9)—-(3)—84-—–1–(Lost to Connecticut in NCAA Tournament (95-39), Season Complete) 3. &-Hampton——-——–-(20-12)—(2)—82-—–2-—(Lost [...]

SWAC Announces Basketball Player  Suspensions

SWAC Announces Basketball Player Suspensions

BIRMINGHAM – The Southwestern Athletic Conference has suspended Alabama A&M women’s basketball player Chelsea Marshall and Jackson State men’s basketball player Phillip Williams one game each for unsportsmanlike conduct. Both Alabama A&M University and Jackson State University have also been fined $500. Marshall was ejected for fighting in the first half of the Bulldogs’ Farmers [...]

Tigers fall 81-67 to Bulldogs in NIT opener

Tigers fall 81-67 to Bulldogs in NIT opener

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Despite a game high 32 point effort from SWAC Player of the Year Garrison Johnson the Jackson State Tigers fell 81-67 to the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the opening round of the National Invitational Tournament Tuesday night at the Humphrey Coliseum. Johnson scored a career high 32 points in the final game [...]

UAPB defeats Winthrop in NCAA Tournament Men’s Opening Round Game

UAPB defeats Winthrop in NCAA Tournament Men’s Opening Round Game

DAYTON, OH – Allen Smith scored 14 points and Tyree Glass added 10 as the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff defeated Winthrop 61-44 in the 2010 NCAA Tournament Opening Round Game. The Golden Lions advance to play Duke Friday at 6:25 p.m. CT in Jacksonville, FL. The win by the Golden Lions was the first by [...]

Prairie View A&M Women’s Basketball to Face Kansas in Postseason NIT Action on Wendnesday

Prairie View A&M Women’s Basketball to Face Kansas in Postseason NIT Action on Wendnesday

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – The Prairie View A&M Lady Panther basketball team will travel north to face the University of Kansas on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the first round of the Postseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT). Wednesday’s game, which takes place at Allen Fieldhouse, marks the first-ever meeting between both schools and [...]

2010 SWAC Tournament All-Tournament Teams Announced

2010 SWAC Tournament All-Tournament Teams Announced

WOMEN Gabrielle Rosigi, Texas Southern Katrich Williams, Alabama A&M Shanice Merritt, Alabama State Hannah Kador, Southern Ashley Augerson, Southern MVP: Hannah Kador, Southern MEN Garrison Johnson, Jackson State Tramayne Moorer, Alabama State Junior Treasure, Texas Southern Deandre Hall, Texas Southern Allen Smith, Univ. Arkansas-Pine Bluff MVP: Allen Smith, UAPB