Alcorn State Is 19-1,
But Still No Ranking
The Chronicle, Saturday, February 2, 1980 - Page 15
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The Alcorn State University Braves are 19-1, lead the
nation in scoring and rebounding margin, have won 15 in
a row, but due to odd circumstances aren’t ranked
among the Associated Press Poll’s Top Twenty Teams.
The Braves were 28-1 last season, losing only to
Indiana in the NIT, after upsetting Miss. State, which
had been rated at one time during the season.
And, ASU was.the nation’s leaders in rebounds after the
season’s end.
This season they’ve again beaten Miss. State,
avenging an earlier loss, and knocked off a strong South
Alabama' team. 82-77, in their tournament, in Mobile,
Alabama. South Alabama went to the NCAA regionals
last season, losing to Louisville, and currently leads the
Sun Belt Conference.
Despite all of the positive items, throw in 6’8 senior
forward Larry “Mr. Mean’’ Smith being fourth in the
nation in rebounding with a 14.5 average, the Braves are
still the only 19-1 Division I team not ranked. lASU’s
Gus Howard had made this conclusion: “We are not
rated because we are a predominantly black institution.”
He explains in detail: “Some of the raters just won’t
vote for a black Institution. These sportswriters voting
results reflect the overall attitude of white America when
it comes to blacks.
We have to be a little bit better in many other aspects,
and we still are left out. It’s the same in the Braves case.
We are a ‘lot-bit’ better, but they just come up with more
excuses not to vote for us.”
Howard adds that this is the main pet peeve: “The
raters say that our schedule isn’t tough enough. Well,
we play a conference schedule, just as most of those in
the Top 20 do. We tried to schedule all Division I
schools, and we did except for Prairie View, the only
Division II school in our conference. We could only ask
folks to play us. We couldn’t make them play us. But,
since 92 per cent of our games are against Division I
schools, who we’re playing in Division 1 shouldn’t
prevent the writers from rating us. Weber State and
Brigham Young don’t face anyone else on the Top 20
chart, but are they excluded? No, and it’s because they
aren’t Black institutions.”
Howard says that Indiana State was victimized also
last year: “The writers complained about their weak
schedule also. But because ISU is a non-black
institution, they were rated. They proved the raters were
wrong by being the second best team in the nation.”
If Brigham Young, Tennessee, Louisiana State,
Louisville, who only beat South Alabama by two in
Louisville, Purdue and others are rated, we should be
rated also. If we were a predominantly white school,
with a combined 2 year record of 44-2, we’d be rated.”
The victimized Braves beat Grambling the 26th in
Grambling and Canisius, the 28th, in Buffalo, New York.
Last years MEAC Player of the Year Joe Brawner sbovvii
here scoring over WSSU’s Mark Clark in early season
loss to the Rams will try to avenge that defeat and the
personal agony he snfiered hy missing three straight
one-and-one opportnnltles Sunday when the Apples take
on the nationally ranked Rams at 4 p.m. Snn^y In the
Memorial Coliseum,
r. Achievers P.U.S.H. Ahead in Business
By Patrice E. Lee
Staff Writer
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irybody. If they don’t like the job they're doing I’ll
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|olds High Junior.
iding the right person to do the job is vital to. any
less, but it is even more vital to Products Useful to
iervices of Households, one of 15 prototype
mies designed to teach youth the nuts and bolts of
running business.
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Rauley, a Duke Power Company employee, doesn’t
mind telling you that the junior achievement team
sponsored by his company is a leading contender to be
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The group’s first project, 14 ounce glass mugs that
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“You lose as much energy from a 1 inch crack at your
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Ask them why they give up several hours every week
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And P.U.S.H. President Rose Pigford knows that
learning is the name of the game. “I learned the do’s
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achievement company) that didn’t do as well last year,”,
says the aspiring corporate lawyer, now a junior at
Reynolds High School.
“Everybody I come across 1 recruit. Most of them (my
recruits) are now in my company,” she says.
StaffPhotoByLee
Richard Dillard [left] and David Harris fiU an energy dog
with rice.
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