Itta Bena, Ms - Mississippi Valley State University announced today that Sean Woods would take over the helm of the Delta Devils’ basketball program and serve as the university’s 12 men’s basketball head coach.  Woods, a former college basketball standout at Kentucky, comes to Valley after serving two seasons at TCU as director of basketball operations […]

Itta Bena, Miss.—Funeral services has been set for Charles “Chuck” Prophet, 67, former athletic director at Mississippi Valley State University, who died last Friday, June 20, 2008, at Greenwood ]-LeFlore Hospital.
Services have been set for Saturday June 28th at 11 a.m. in the R.W. Harrison HPER Complex on the MVSU campus. Visitation is set […]

Itta Bena, Miss. — The Mississippi Valley State University family mourns the death of former Athletic Director and Sports Information Director Charles “Chuck” Prophet. Prophet, 67, passed around midday today in the Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss.
A pioneer in the field of athletics administration, Prophet, was widely known as “The Wagon Master” of […]

Date Game Site Time (CST) NetworkSaturday, August 30 Labor Day Classic Houston, TX 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
Prairie View at Texas Southern
Sunday, August 31 MEAC / SWAC Challenge Orlando, FL 1:00 p.m. ESPN2
Jackson State vs. Hampton

The Southwestern Athletic Conference announces its 2008 football schedule highlighted by classics, traditional rivalries and televised contests.
In addition to the schedule, the Conference has revised its tiebreaker policy. As football will be moving to a seven-game conference mandate, the SWAC Council of Presidents approved a new divisional tiebreaker to decide the participants in the SWAC […]

Itta Bena, Miss.—Mississippi Valley State head women’s basketball coach Nate Kilbert will conduct the 7th annual MVSU Girls’ Basketball Camp July 12-14, 2008 on the MVSU campus. The three day camp will focus on fundamentals of offense, defense, and rebounding; 1-on-1 instruction; educational seminars; and other activities.   Campers will receive personal skill instruction from highly trained […]

Itta Bean, Miss. The Mississippi Valley State Department of Athletics is pleased to announce that after an intensive search they have narrowed a field of more than 20 applicants down to three for the head coach position of the Delta Devils men’s basketball program.
In no particular order Dr. Lacey Reynolds, Harvey Wardell and Sean Woods […]

Baton Rouge, LA - The Tigers of Texas Southern University advance in the winner’s bracket of the 2008 Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball tournament with a, 13-3, pounding of the Delta Devils of Mississippi Valley State.
The Tigers wasted no time jumping onto the scoreboard as they picked up four runs in the top of the first […]