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BCSP Notes . . .
- Play at the 68th SIAC Basketball Tournament will be held Wednesday, Feb. 28 thru Saturday, March 3 at Birmingham's Fair Park Arena. Morehouse will likely enter as the men's favorite while Fort Valley will be favored to take the women's title. The conference will be holding its first tournament under first-year Commissioner Robert Vowels and he has added a few contests to the tourney mix. Spectators will be vying for a million dollar shot on Thursday night. There will be a talent search during Friday's semifinals and an Old School Jam following Saturday's final games.
- Winston-Salem State graduate and current Atlantic Coast Conference Assistant Commissioner Delores "Dee" Todd and Norfolk State basketball legend Richard "Pee Wee" Kirkland will be the keynote speakers at the women's and men's tipoff banquets at the CIAA tournament next week. Todd, the first female assistant commissioner in the ACC and a former award-winning track coach at Georgia Tech, will highlight the women's banquet Sunday, Feb. 25 at the Raleigh North Hilton Hotel. Kirkland, a New York Rucker League legend who led the high-scoring 1967-68 Norfolk State basketball team to the CIAA championship, will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 27 for the men's banquet at the Hilton. Kirkland, who was drafted by the NBA's Chicago Bulls, also gained fame for his off-court activities which landed him in jail where he eventually turned his life around. He currently operates a New York city program which teaches young people important values. He has been the subject of television news and advertisements and feature articles about his life on and off the court.
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