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THE STAT CORNER
How They Did It
Key games in black college basketball this past week. SWAC (women)
Alcorn State beats, passes Alabama State Alcorn State forward Cherea Wood threw in 26 points and hauled down nine rebounds as the Lady Braves (13-2 SWAC, 16-9) displaced Alabama State (11-3 SWAC, 17-6) atop the SWAC standings with a 83-68 win Monday night at the David L. Whitney Complex. Wood hit on all twelve of her free throws to lead a 33 of 36 free throw shooting performance for Alcorn State which all but buried any chances for the Lady Hornets. Wood also had three assists, three blocked shots and one steal. Guard Kamrica Turk connected on eleven of twelve free throws for 13 points and added six rebounds, five assists and one blocked shot. Alcorn State was also dominating on the boards as they outrebounded the Lady Hornets, 43-24. Alabama State was led by forward Shameka Jackson who had 17 points and five rebounds.Next up for Alcorn State is a trip to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where they will face the Southern Lady Jaguars (11-3 SWAC, 15-7) in a battle for first place. CIAA (men)
Shaw wins battle of division leaders Shaw (7-2 CIAA E, 8-5 CIAA, 15-8), leader of the conference's Eastern Division, went into Johnson C. Smith's Braybroy Gymnasium and handed the Western Division leading (6-1 CIAA E, 12-2 CIAA, 20-4) Golden Bulls their first CIAA loss in the building in two years, 85-78 before an overflow boisterous crowd of above 2,500 fans. The Bears showed off the talent first-year coach Joel Hopkins has assembled. Guards Jermaine Smith (16 points) and Vance Williams (15 points) teamed with scintillating wingman Ronald Murray (23 points) to give the Bears a potent outside game, as they canned 11 three-pointers. Six-ten center Steve Bynes (17 points, 13 rebounds) and 6-9 forward Kenyon Murray (eight points, nine rebounds) did the dirty work down low, leading to a 44-33 rebounding advantage for the Bears, a ten-rebound margin off the defensive glass. The quintet scored all but six of the Bears points and had answers for everything the Bulls threw at them. Antoine Sims led Smith with 20 points, while center Lemans Shingler, who battled Shaw's tall frontline all night, had 19 points and 11 boards. MEAC (men)
Coppin State knocks off MEAC top 'Dawgs, S. C. State Joe Brown scored 37 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lift Coppin State (8-7 MEAC, 10-13) to a 68-60 upset win over cold-shooting South Carolina State Saturday in Orangeburg. Rasheem Sims had 11 points and Larry Tucker 10 for the Eagles who snapped a two-game losing streak. S.C. State, which dropped its second league game of the season -- both at home -- and had a five-game win streak snapped, was paced by Vincent Whitt with 19 points and Greg Gray with 14. Dexter Hall added 11 points and a game-high 15 rebounds in the loss, which dropped the Bulldogs to 15-10 overall and 12-2 in the league. Coppin, which avenged an earlier 65-61 home loss to the Bulldogs, connected on 49 percent of its shots from the field, including 58 percent in the second half, in which they outscored S.C. State 40-26. The Bulldogs shot only 32 percent in the game and hit a frigid 24 percent of their shots from the floor in the final 20 minutes. S.C. State led 34-28 at the half and was ahead 38-32 with just under 17 minutes to play, when Coppin used a 11-1 run to deadlock the contest at 39-all on Tucker's short jumper with 14:55 on the clock.. There were four lead changes and four deadlocks, the last at 52-all with 5:40 remaining, before the Eagles took control of the contest. © 2001 Azeez Communications, Inc. |
