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UNDER THE BANNER What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
HOOPS TV: The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has released its 2001-2002 Men's and Women's Basketball television schedule. All of the nine men's and five women's games aired will be featured on Comcast. The televised match-ups include a game between regular season men's co-champions, Hampton and South Carolina State on February 16. The Pirates are led this year by returning senior guard, Tommy Adams. The Bulldogs are emerging into the season with returning All-MEAC senior forward, Dexter Hall. Both teams finished 14-4 in the MEAC last season. In the world of women's basketball, Howard's Lady Bison will meet the Lady Pirates of Hampton for a showdown for all to see on January 21. The Lady Bison, defending MEAC champions, are starting the season with 2000-01 MEAC MVP senior center, Andrea Gardner, who led the nation in rebounding last season with an average of 14.3 per game. Joining this showdown will be the Howard and Hampton men for a Martin Luther King Day double-header. Also, included is the 2002 MEAC Basketball Tournament Semi-finals. The tournament will be held in Richmond, VA on March 4-9. Tickets are now on sale at the Richmond Coliseum and member institutions.
HOWARD PROBATION: The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has concluded that five former assistant or head coaches committed unethical conduct and that a number of other major violations, including academic fraud and lack of institutional control, occurred at Howard University from the mid-1990s to the 1999-00 academic year. As a result, the university has been placed on probation for five years and show-cause penalties have been imposed on three former coaches. Those penalties are in addition to many penalties self-imposed by the university. A show-cause penalty requires any NCAA institution seeking to employ the individual to appear before the Committee on Infractions to determine whether the individual's athletically related duties should be limited for a specified time. The involved sports were baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball and men's and women's swimming, and the case included violations of NCAA bylaws governing recruiting, extra benefits, academic eligibility, academic fraud, ethical conduct and a lack of institutional control. © 2001 Azeez Communications, Inc.
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SHAW
FOOTBALL?: Shaw University Board of Trustees Chairman, Willie E. Gary
announced last week that the school is in the final stages of reinstating the
sport of football. The university plans to have the program in place for the 2002
football season, initially as a club team before moving up to the Division II
level in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). The Football
Committee Chairman Joe Bell, who is also a member of the Shaw University
Board of Trustees, remarked that "the search committee is finalizing the
candidates' list for the head coaching position and one is expected to be named
in the near future." Shaw was founded in 1865 and the football program began
around 1897. The program was discontinued in 1942 and 1943 during World War II
and was revived in 1946. During the 1947 season, the football team finished with
10 wins, no losses, no ties, and won the CIAA Championship and the Black College
National Championship. The program continued (with the exception of one year in
1952) through the 1978 season. In 1979 the program was once again discontinued.