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Grambling Legend Bob Hopkins Elected to Hall of Fame

By on April 8, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

GRAMBLING, La. – Grambling State University (GSU) basketball legend Bob Hopkins has been named as a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction class of 2013. As a player, Hopkins averaged 30 points and 17 rebounds a game for the Tigers from 1953-56. He was a two-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics [...]

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Division 1 HBCUs Should Consider Dropping Football To Gain Basketball Glory

By on March 27, 2013 in Basketball, Football, M Basketball, The Blog, W Basketball

The improbable Sweet 16 run by Florida Gulf Coast University means a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it means the NCAA Tournament has a true Cinderella to rally around. For the press, it means a story that can be used to build on the myth that March Madness masks all [...]

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Southern AD Offers Campus Invite To ESPN’s Pablo Torre To Show Some Love – (VIDEO)

By on March 26, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

ESPN.com’s Pablo Torre went where no other sportswriter had gone before when he boldly predicted on ESPN’s Behind the Horn, that No. 16 seed Southern would defeat No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the NCAA basketball tournament. While the Jags fell short to Gonzaga, losing only by 6 points in a game that would have been [...]

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Jackson State Names Wayne Brent As Men’s Basketball Coach – (VIDEO)

By on March 25, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, News

Wayne Brent was named as the seventh head coach of the Jackson State Tigers on Monday, March 25 during a press conference at the Jackson State University Sports Hall of Fame. After welcoming Brent to JSU, Director of Athletics Dr. Vivian L. Fuller presented him with a jacket and shirt bearing the university’s logo. Brent [...]

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Southern-Gonzaga: More Than an Upset Bid Was at Stake

By on March 23, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

It looked like 1993 all over again. There was Southern, the sixteenth-seeded SWAC champion, giving once Cinderella now Goliath Gonzaga all it could handle in the second-round of the NCAA Tournament. These Jaguars, the same outfit that won just four times two years ago, were threatening to upset the No. 1 ranked team in the country. [...]

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Southern’s Historic Fight Against Gonzaga Falls Short In NCAA Tournament

By on March 22, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball, The Blog

On paper, or better yet the tournament brackets, it was to be a typical first round match between a No. 1 and a No. 16 seed; a game the No. 16 seed has never won. While the later still holds true in Gonzaga’s 64-58 win over Southern, Friday’s first round game between the two teams [...]

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Jackson State’s Telvester Anderson Set To Retire

By on March 18, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

Jackson State basketball coach Tevester Anderson is retiring, the school announced Monday. Anderson, 76, coached JSU the last 10 years, compiling an 11-18 record in the just completed season. The Canton native was the head coach at Murray State before coming to JSU and was a long-time assistant coach at Auburn and Georgia before working [...]

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Southern vs. Gonzaga: Teleconference Featuring Coach Roman Banks And Players – [AUDIO]

By on March 18, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

Southern University conducted a special teleconference earlier on Monday featuring head men’s basketball coach Roman Bank along with senior guards Jameel Grace and Derick Beltran. Banks, who earned SWAC Co-Coach of the Year honors, is in his second season as head coach at Southern. Beltran, a native of Riverview, Fla., earned first team All-SWAC honor [...]

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Southern To Face Top Seed Gonzaga In Opening Round Of NCAA Tournament

By on March 17, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

The Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament champion Southern University Jaguars will face Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Jags will be the No. 16 seed in the West Region, while the Zags, who finished the regular season as the nation’s top-ranked team, are the No. 1 seed. The two teams will meet [...]

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Southern Wins 2013 SWAC Men’s Basketball Tournament

By on March 16, 2013 in Basketball, M Basketball

Courtesy: SWAC.org GARLAND, Texas – Top seed Southern University punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament with a 45-44 victory over No. 4 seeded Prairie View A&M in the championship game of the 2013 Toyota SWAC Basketball Tournament on Saturday at the Curtis Culwell Center. Tournament MVP Derick Beltran had 13 points and seven rebounds, [...]

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