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For t?? Week Of December 28 1999 through January 3, 2000 IVw I LET'S GO SWAC Pholo TO THE WHITNEY: Gets his 500th -win and team HOOPS ' debuts as BCSP No. 1. t ALCORN STATE (MEN), GRAMBLING 1 t ; ? UNDER THE BANNER_ WHAT S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS STEPPING UP: Delaware State University President William B. Delauder announced last week that 29-year coaching veteran Ben jamin "Ben" Blacknall will be the Hornets new head football coach. This past season. Blacknall. 50. was the assistant head coach/defen site coordinator at Morehouse College in Atlanta. The previous 24 years he served as an assistant sc State Sports Ptioto under Willie Jeffries at South BLACKNALL Gets Carolina State (1977-78; 1989 Del State job after 25 199g wjchita State (1979.1983). years as an able assistant and Howard (1984-1988). Black nail is af 1973 graduate of North Carolina A&T He earned four varsity letters as a member of the Aggies football squad while Jeffries w jjs an assistant coach there. He replaces John McKenzie who posted^ 7-26 mark in three years including a 4-7 record this season. WALKING PAPERS; Ron Dickerson was fired last week as head football coach at Alabama State Uni versity and his assistant coach. Ben Harris, was named to replace him on an interim basis. Dickerson took the reins of the ASU program in 1998 after serving five years as the head man at Temple. In his two years, the Hornets compiled a 6 16 mark including a disappointing 2-9 record this season. MCGIRT SUCCUMBS: Former Johnson C. Smith University football coach and athletic director Eddie C. McGirt died last Tuesday in Charlotte. N. C. McGirt, 79, a 1947 JCSU graduate, coached the football team from 1958 1978 and led the Golden Bulls to one championship, two divisional championships and two second place finishes. He was named the CI A A Coach of the Year in 1969 and won NAIA Coach of the Year on two occasions. He retired from coaching in 1978 but remained as athletic director and head of the department of health and physical education until 1985. > MILESTONES: Dave Whitney, on his second .ound coaching basketball at Alcorn State, and Arthur McAfee, Jr., who is in his' 25th year as the head coach at Morehouse College, have both passed the 500rcareer victory mark this season. Whitney got his 500th with a 91 -72 win over Prairie View on Dec. 20. Whitney now has a 501-307 record in 29 years as a col lege head coach. Whitney, a 1953 graduate of, Kentucky State, is SIAC Sports Photo 447-224 in 24 years at Alcorn. McAFEE Over 500 McAfee entered the season just one wins at Morehouse sh<(n of (he milestone an<j jt College with his first win of the season. He now has a 502-504 career record. The two join a select group of 10 black college coaches that have topped the 500-career victory plateau led by Clarence "Big House" Gaines' 828 wins, all at Winston-Salem State The last to join the elite dub before them was .Virginia Union's Dave Robbins who entered last season and now has 519 career victories, all at Virginia Union. The next active coach'to join will be Tuskegee head man Ben Jobe who entered the season with 498 wins (w ith 280 losses) and has a I -5 mark so far this sea son. STAT CORNER WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS FORMER BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS NAMED TO NFL PRO BOWL TEAMS NFC DE - Michael Strahan. NY Giants (Texas Southern)' DB - Aeneas Williams, Arizona Cardinals (Southern) OT - Erik Williams. Dallas Cowboys (Central State) DE - Robert Porcher, Detroit Lions (S C. State) AFC WR - Jimmy Smith, Jacksonville Jaguars. Jackson State * ? Starters OAZEF7 r<,mmumratk?K. tat. VOL. VI. VI, 2* ? * ?? SCORES Ok. 27 LSU 01 Howard 56 S Mm 73 Jacfcaon Sue 66 OK. 23 Man*** 98 GramOSng Si 50 TtvC*d*68 Flondi AAM 60 Dk 22 Atom St 70. Texas Slhm 67 Hampton 79 Chcagc Stale 68 Mane 83 Ftonoa MM 73 McNeese SI 68 Jackson Si 50 Soutoam 91 Prame View 79 V?KOva 77. s C Stale 71 ttagnar 86 Nofloik Stale 67 v P| A A CEmMLkmouBWi ^ tatinc Assoc ato nniup ON Ml ? I ? L , EAST OMKM Etucer Csy 0 0 6 1 VagnaUraon 0 0 5 1 Shaa 0 0 5 4 VagraSme <0 0 4 5 Si Pai/s 0 0 3 7 Bow Si 0 0 1 10 ?ESTONOKM Wnaon-SNemSt 0 0 7 1 Fayeaevte St 0 0 8 2 NC Cental 0 0 5 3 Si Aogutanes 0 0 4 4 JCSfl* 0 0 3 5 Dvngstxie 0 0' . 2 7 CtAA PLAYER OF THE WEEK NA t ? \\ 1 * ' ;? M CAP MeEAsnm DMFCCowbM I won cam <u * l ? L UtoyttfKrtS 10 3 5 BMuvCootran 10 2 ( Node* Stale 10 17 ttaprSe* 10 18 Coppn SB* 2 1 2 9 Homo 0 0 0 7 SC Stale 0 1 3 8 Hampton 0 1 15 NC MT 0 116 FtondaMM 0 8 Detaoare Sate 0 8 MEAC PUVER OF THE WEEK HA ' ? CI Af* Sound* knfOCOUKMTE An*mc Coffiua Mm asm mi ? i ? i EAST Qat Atone 10 4 4 Afcaiy Sate 1110 MomsBroem 0 0 6 4 Fat Vatey sea 0 1 " 4 4 Pane 0 12 4 Sawwnah Stale 0 2 2 4 ?EST Urn 10 4 3 LeHoyneOwn 10 2 5 ttantudcySB* 3 13 4 Wet 3 3 3 4 Tuckegee 1115 Morehouse 12 3 7 S1AC PLAYER OF THE WEEK H* CIA/AT SouMsim ^ " ** W ATHLfTC Comkencx n** 1M COMF MJ. W I V I Mean Sue JOSS MMmtmUM 2 0 4 4 Soutum 10 3 5 ItaVU* 10 10 MMwna Sole 113 4 Jadoon Sue 1 1 5 0 Teas Souden 0 1 4 5 Art Pre Ste* 0 10 7 Pan Vim 0 2 2 7 Guittng 0 2 1 12 SWAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK . NA INDEPENDENTS I mm W L Tennessee SWe 0 6 I Cheyney H ContraI Stale - ? UOC - - ? j \ ? . Hoops season has something old, plenty new I LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor There's a whole lot similar and a whqle lot different from last year as the BCSP begins coverage of the final black col lege basketball season of the 1990s. Part of che familiar is the fact that only two NCAA Div. I black college men's teams will enter January with above .500 records. We should be used to that by now. Defending SWAC champ and 1998-99 final BCSP No. 1. Alcorn State, at 5-5 under head coach Dave Whitney, is one of them and gets the nod in our first ranking as the top black college hoops teams. Whitney and Alabama A&M head man Vann Pett away. have both gotten to .500 with a couple of early wins over SWAC opponents. Pettaway, whose Bulldogs dominated the 90 s in the SIAC before joining the SWAC, has posted a 4-4 mark and served notice that they will be a force in their first year being eligible for the conference title. Amongst the Div. II squads debuting in the top ten are defending CLAA champion #2 Winston-Salem State at 7-1, as well as CIAA powers #3 Vir ginia Union (5-1) and #4 Eliza beth City State (7-1). These three have already taken turns beating up on each other. Each finished in our final top ten a year ago (WSSU 2nd. ECSU 6th and VUU IOth). Southern (3-5) finished second to Alcorn State last year in the SWAC regular season and fell to the Braves in the confer ence tournament finals. The Jaguars return the SWAC Player of the Year in 6-9 senior center Adarrial Smytle. They finished fifth a year ago. Who's the best team in the MEAC is anybody's guess as Florida A&M's emergence from the conference tournament proved a year ago. This year South Carolina State had made the biggest noise with a win over Atlantic Coast Conference member Clemson but the Bull dogs (3-8) already have a 15 point loss to Coppin State (2-9) in MEAC play. It looks like the MEAC will be a toss-up once again. Maryland-Eastern Shore (3-5), at 10th, enters our ranking as the only MEAC team. ; Smylie and MEAC return ing player of the year Damian Woolfolk. a senior forward at Norfolk Slate, are the most familiar names out of the top ten players named to the BCSP "Baad" Team of all-stars after last season. Virginia Union cen ter Chandar Bingham is anoth er. But after that, get ready for a host of up-and-coming players that will be carrying the black college banner this season. And that's where the differ ences come in. It may take a while getting used to some of these new names. The preseason all-confer ence men's teams are littered with names only the die-hard I black college fan would recog-1 nize. On the women's side, it's I much of the same. Oram Ming I Slate, under David "Rusty" I Ponton grabbed the final BCSP V No. 1 spot for the second year in I a row. He'll be working this year I on his third straight SWAC title I since taking over from Patricia I Bibbs. now at Hampton. Bibbs' I Lady Pirates took the regular I season MEAC crown last year I but were knocked off in the con. I ference tournament. They are 2- I 6 so far this season. The Bowie State Lady Bulldogs look again to be I among the elite women's teams under head coach Ed Davis. They're off to an 8-2 start but | have already suffered a loss in conference to Livingstone's Lady Bears. Morgan State has been impressive, winning three MEAC games in blowouts and playing respectably out of con ference. 1. Alcorn State (5-5) 2. Winston-Salem State (7-1) 3. Virginia Union (5-1) 4. Elizabeth City State (7-1) 5. Alabama A&M (4-4) 6. Southern (3-5) 7. Fayetteville State (8-2) 8. Morris Brown (6-4) 9. NC Central (5-3) 10. Md. E-Shore (3-5) 1. Grambling State (8-3) 2. Bowie State (8-2) 3. Morgan State (5-5) 4. Bethune-Cookman (5-3) 5. Wlnston-Satem St. (7-3) 6. Clark Atlanta (6-2) 7. Southern (4-3) 8. Aicom State (4-5) 9. St. Augustine's (7-3) 10. Livingstone (6-5) Sixth Annual BCSP "Baad Team" of Black College All-Stars Thurman Wideman ? aHr MM Murray Wright Massimini Thompson I - I Slaughter Thompson breaks through in '99 to win POY award LUT WILLIAMS I BCSP Editor i After six years of running backs < and quarterbacks dominating the BCSP Player of the Year award, Virginia j Slate's Damon Thompson had a < breakthrough year for wide receivers. Thompson, a 5-11. 182-pound junior wide receiver/kick returner from Richmond, Va? led all black college i receivers this year with 90 receptions for 1,517 yards in just 10 games as he i repeated as CIAA Offensive Player of the Year. His yardage total, nine recep tions per game (third best in Div. II) and 151.7 receiving yards per game (first in Div. II) were also tops as he established himself as black college football's most dangerous offensive weapon. He had 10 receiving touchdowns, returned 30 punts for a 13.7 yard aver age and a TD, and brought back 22 kickoffs at a 21.1-yard rate including one for a score. He also had two rush ing touchdowns. His 248 all purpose yards per game (second in Div. II) was also tops among black college players. By the way, with 203 career catch es, and another year to strut his stuff, Thompson is just nine catches short of creaking the CIAA career reception record. And with just a little more pro Juction. he could eclipse Mississippi Valley State and San Francisco 49ers great Jerry Rice's black college record :>f 301 career grabs. That's why Thompson was chosen as the BCSP Offensive Player of the Year-and the leader of the "Baad" Team of 1999 black college all-stars. He and Jackson State RB Destry Wright are the only repeaters from last year's team. Thompson ? is joined in the receiv ing ranks by Howard senior Elijah Thurman. who racked up all-Ameri can and Academic all-American honors on his way to having a breakthrough season of his own. After toiling in the shadows of a host of cat-quick, diminu tive Bison receivers, the 6-2 Thurman emerged this year to gain national hon ors with 84 catches for 1.366 yards and nine TDs while maintaining a 3.87 GPA in mathematics. Six-four, 260-pound senior Adrian Wideman of Hampton (16 rec., 189 yds., 1 TD) is the tight end. Manning the quarterback spot is Tennessee State senior Leon Murray, who recently won the Street & Smith's Eddie Robinson Award as the black col lege player of the year. Murray's season was cut short after the Tigers' seventh game with a severe knee injury but not before he put up the kind of numbers (over 1,900 yards passing and 18 TDs) and displayed the kind of talent and poise that made him a standout. TSU posted the only only undefeated (11-0) regular season in all of I-AA football. Murray's backfield mates are Wright and Mississippi Valley State junior Corey Holmes. Wright (283 car ries, 1,613 yds., 12 TDs) and Holmes (333 car., 1,692, 11 TDs) are the only black college runners this season to top 1,400 yards rushing. Wright ran for 1,528 yards last year. The guys up front on the offensive line are Tennessee State senior tackle Michael Thompson, senior Chad Slaughter (6-7, 317) of Alcorn State, Howard's massive (6-5, 320) senior Mpumi Massimini, Fort Valley State senior Jerry Jackson (6-6, 295) and Arkansas Pine Bluff senior Terrance Beadles (6-4, 291). 2nd Team Offense OB - Lionel Hayes. Grambling St.;. RB - Alvon Brown, Ky. State and Maurice Smith, NC A&T; WR - Scotty Anderson, Grambling St. and Sylvester Morris, Jackson St.; TE - Ike Ihejeto, Ky. State; OL - Jeramogi Todd,1 Jackson St.; Damon Nieves, Southern; Kelly McLendon and Mitchell Foreman, Hampton; and Bennie Anderson, Tenn. State. 3rd Team Offense OB - Jajuan Seider, Florida A&M; RB "Michael Scott, Tuskegee and Terrie Newkirk, WSSU; WR - Calnon Lamb, Florida A&M and Corey Sullivan, Tennessee State; TE - Marcus Holbert, Alcorn State; OL - Chad Fann and Jon Hall, NC A&T; Jason Reaves. Va. Union; Kevin Thomas, Jackson St., and Seneca Gray, Ky. State. NEXT WEEK: The Defensive All-Stars. All Pro Photography RECEIVING AWARD: Repeat CIAA Offensive Player of the Year was a threat to go all the way running, receiv ing and returning kicks. SCORES Ok 27 Norfolk Stale 59 Jackeoovie 53 Stony Brook 63 B -Cookman 54 Dae. 22 | Alcom Stale 77 Tex Sthm 61 GrambkngSl 65 Alabama AAM 50 S Carokna 100. S C Stale 55 SolAhm 66 Prune View 68 ,Sl Lowa 76 Hampton 66 Dec. 21 i Manhattan S3 Delaware State 75 - ? * * ? ?' .! . . , , ? 4_ I f* I A A CENTRM INTERCOUEIjIATE I ^Athletic Association ' THRU <2* WV ' ALL W L W L EAST DIVISION Bowie St 10 8 2 Elizabeth City 0 0 5 3 St Paul s 0 14 5 Virginia Union 0 0 3 4 Virginia Slate 0 0 2 5 Shaw 0 0 2 6 WEST DIVISION Winston-Salem St 0 0 7 2 St. Augustine s 0 0 7 3 JC Smith 0 0 7 3 Livingstone 0 0 6 5 NC Central 0 0 3 5 Fayetteville State 0 0 ' 3 6 CIAA PLAYER OF THE WEEK NA ? f MC AP Mio Eastern Athletic Conference ihhu im CONF ALL W I W L Morgan State 3 0 5 5 Bethune-Cookman 10 5 3 Delaware State 10 3 6 Hampton 10 2 6 Coppm State 2 14 7 SC State 12 16 Howard 0 0 2 6 Norfolk Slate 0 12 4 Florida ASM 0 12 6 Marytand-ES 0 116 NC A4T 0 3 17 MEAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK NA CIAP Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference THRU l? CONF AU. W L W L EAST CliarTt Atlanta 0 0 6 2 Paine 0 0 0 1 Albany State 0 0 0 2 Fort Valley State 0 0 11 Savannah State 0 0 0 1 Morns Brown 0 0 5 3 WEST LeMoyne-Owen 0 0 0 0 Tuskegee 0010 Kentucky State 0 0 2 1 Morehouse 0 0 3 4 Lane 0 0 11 Miles 0 0 12 (Most records not available) SIAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK NA SWA C Southwestern Athletic Conference THRU 12? CONE AU W L w L GramWing 2 0 8 3 Southern 10 4 3 Alcom State 10 4 5 Mbs Valley .10 3 7 Jackson State 113 5 Alabama State t 1 3 7 Praine View 0 12 6 Aik. Pine Bluff 0 1 0 5 Texas Southern 0 1 0 10 Alabama ASM 0 2 0 9 SWAC PLAYER Of THE WEEK NA INDEPENDENTS W L Tennessee Stale 4 4 Cheyney Central State UDC - - v" ? ? 4 ? ' * ?
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