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_ College Notebo
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Chronicle Sports Editor
A rather significant off-thecourt
development has occurred
in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
in the last month.
Bethune-Cookman vfc not
classified by the NCAA this
school year because of an infraction
committed in a non-revenue
sport. The Wildcats are not eligible
for any post-season NCAAsponsored
playoffs or tournaments,
including the Division I
basketball tournament. ^
The MEACLJias an automatic
bid to that tourney that goes to
the MEAC Tournament winner.
B-CC may be asked not to participate
in the MEAC Tournament
in March, said Commis
sioner Ken Free.
"We would lose our automatic
berth in the MEAC Tournament
if Bethune-Cookman won the
tournament," Free said. "If they
had been the champion in football,
we would have lost our
automatic beiTh in the I-AA
playoffs."
Accordingly, Florida A&M
was readmitted to the conference
last month by a vote of the
Delegate Assembly with the hope
of getting the Rattlers to take the
* Wildcats* place in the MEAC
Tournament. The NCAA requires
that a conference have at
least six yearns in a post-season
tourney that detei mines the recipierit
of an automatic berth for
the NCAA playoffs. Coppin and
Morgan State are ineligible again
this year because of a mandatory
three-vear or are nprinH for nm.
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motion from Division !I to I.
Free said no final decision has
been made on whether FAMU
would play in the ME AC Tournament
instead of B-CC. Free
said the .faculty representative of
. each school has voted to make
* FAMU eligible if B-CC can bt
- persuaded to sit out this year.
This news caused constema**
tion among some conference
coaches because FAMU plays only
home-and-home games with
South Carolina State and
Bethune-Cookman this season.
"I'm not sure I understand
how they're eligible for the
tourney without playing a conference
schedule/' North
Carolina A&T's Don. Corbett
told the Greensboro News <&
Record , 1 Corbett,
who has won the last
five automatic berths to the
NCAA tourney, wanted to know
how FAMU, an independent
I r 1 a r\ '
ociure iasi uec. zu, could put
itself in position for a NCAA appearance
without playing a full
load of conference games.
CIAA Men
Southern Division
Div. All Games
Team W L W L
NCCU 2 0 7 4
FSU 10 2 5
-wssu?'?0?0 7?r~
JCSU -11 7 3
Shaw 12 4 6
St Aug's 0 1 5 5
L'stone 0 1 0 11
Northern Division
Oiv. All Games
Team W L W I
Union 10 10
Norfolk 0 0 _ 10 1
Hampton 0 0 L. 9 J3
ECSU 0 0 5r 5
St Paul's 0 0 5-8
Bowie 0 0 110
Va State 0 1, 6 6
Doc. 20 Results
UDC 69. WSSU 64 0T
Virginia State 83 Delaware Sta'e 74
Norfolk StOtC 83 AMDiimn A&M fi6
Jan.2 Results s
MnrfnlU 10C, Tontral Qtato 7C,
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ECSU 102. Clark 95
Hampton 94. Bowie State 6-?
Savannah State 75 St Paul's 68
Jem. 3 Results
Hamptpn 87 . Savannah State 78
St Paul's 54. Bowk> State 44
Norfolk State 62. Clark 40 A
ECSU 88 Central 8t OT ?
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A&T's Corvin Davis drives in for
win over Howard: the sophomor*
(photo by Joe Daniels).
Moreover, the [conference
.tourney winner gets a guaranteed b
appearance fee for the NCAA ii
. berth. Last season, it was worth fc
$167,000, part of which was c
t divided among the other con- s
) ference members. 2
Florida A&M had been in the
conference from 1979-84. The i<
; Rattlers withdrew from the f
league in '84 because of a dispute r
1 with Bethune-Cookman over the f
I site of their annual football c
game. The school had had an c
1 open invitation to join the i
i Southwestern Athletic Con- t
ference, but did not because too r
1 many of the teams were too far p
away. j"We
have more in ?>mrnoa_?
rcgturratty wtrfi The MEAC v
schools," FAMU Athletic Direc- c
tor Nelson Townsend said. r
"Originally, Florida A&M left /
the MEAC because of its dispute t
with Bethune-Cookman over thp
football game (annually between v
1 the two). We got along with the r
conference at-large."
*
Last Monday's Result
St Paul's 75. Clinch Vatley 61
Last Thursday's Results
Virginia Union 79 N-?^ enUaM>3?
Elizabeth City 83. Bowie State 7G
Norfolk State 89 St Augustine's 70
Va State 108 Rutgers-Camden 75
J C Smith 57 Shaw 55
Lasf Friday's Result
WSSII 78 4amu' .
Last Saturday's Refuse
WSSU 79. Eii/abe'h City 67
Fayefteviie at Shaw
J C Smith 11? Livingstone 78
St Paul s at Virginia Union
N C Central 67 St Augustine s 6l?
VirQirtM State at Bowie State "
Thursday's Gamer ^
: Shaw al WSSU P
Bowie State at St Paul s \
RoxDoro at L vtngstone /T** \
Fayetteville State at Va State ' V
Saturday's Games WSSU
a* Sf Augustine's.
UDC at Bowie State
FayetleviHe <3t N C- Centra!
Hampton at St Pauf s
Pame-at J C Smith
Shaw at I ivingstone
Va State at Norfolk Slate
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tournament
^
a layup in the Aggies' 84-68 I
? had a career-high 17 points I
r I
Townsend said the automatic
erths for the revenue sports are
mportant to FAMU, especially
>ecause the NCAA tends to
overlook independents in its
election of post-season playoff
ind tournament participants.
"But the most important thing |
5 the opportunity to play in conerence
championships for our I
ion-revenue sports like track and I
ield," Townsend said. "We field
ross country, indoor and out- I
loor track teams. But unless an I
ndividual has a good enough
ime to qualify for the NCAA
egionals, then it is an empty ex>erience
not winning any cham)ionship."
?Towrorrnl safd Hie h AMU I
vomen's basketball team will
ompete in the 2-year-old, sixnember
New South Women's I
Athletic Conference Tournament I
his season. I
S
' "We will make a decision on
vhere the better placement is for I
lext season at a later date," he
Please see page B13
Next Monday's Games I
WSSU at FayetteviHe State
St Paul's at Bowie
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Next Tuesday*t Games _
Livingstone at St Augustine's
UDC at Hampton
CIAA Women
Southern Division
toTTt AtrtSamf?
Team W .1 W L
1
FSU 1-0 2 4
Snaw 0 0 5 1
St Auq 0 0 6 2
- VVSSU 0 0 5.4
?V Cy ?0 0 3 4
1 s!one 0 0 2 4
JCSU 0 1 3 4
Northern Divfsion
Conf. All Games
Team W L W L
Va State 10 7 1
Hampton 0 0 7 1
Norfolk 0 0 6 2
5! Paul's 0 0 5 5?
ECSU 0 0 14
Bowie 0 0 14
- - Urwon ? O 1 - 0 5 ? ?
Thursday's Games
\
\^C Smith at Shaw
Bowie State at Elizabeth City
Saturday's Games
Livingstone at J C Smith ?
Hampton at Delaware State
FayetteviHe State at'Shaw
Virginia State a' Bowie State
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