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BCSP Tidbits . . .
- Horace Broadnax resigned last week as head men's basketball coach of
Bethune-Cookman College to pursue a law career.
The 37-year-old Broadnax, who played on Georgetown University's 1984 national
championship team, holds a juris doctorate from Florida State University.
Clifford Reed, Broadnax's top assistant for five years, has been named
interim head coach. Reed, a 1991 graduate of B-CC and former head coach at Atlantic
High School in Port Orange, Fla., coached his first Division Saturday (Feb 2),
a 76-70 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore in a MEAC match up.
Broadnax compiled a 42-88 record in five seasons. He was named MEAC Coach
of the Year in 1998-99 and 1999-2000, his best seasons at B-CC in which he compiled
a combined 25-31 (22-15 MEAC) record. The 14-15, (12-6) mark in 1999-2000 season
was the school's best record in Division I.
- The men of Arkansas-Pine Bluff snapped a 24-game losing streak last
week (Jan. 28), the longest in NCAA Div. I basketball, against Jackson State
with an 81-79 win.
Monday (Feb. 4) the Golden Lions (2-19, 2-9 SWAC) upset Alabama State,
the SWAC's defending champion and current second place team, 70-68.
- The Alabama A&M vs. Alabama State men's game Saturday (Feb. 11)
will be carried live on College SportSouth (CSS). The Alabama rivals are playing
for second place in the SWAC.
- The MEAC TV Game of the Week Saturday features the Bethune-Cookman
at South Carolina State men's game at 2:00 p.m. on Comcast and MBC
networks.
- The men's and women's teams leading the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
and Southwestern Athletic Conference races have yet to lose a game
in conference play.
Southern's women (17-3) are riding a 14-game winning streak, the fifth
longest current streak in the country. The Lady Jags are 11-0 in SWAC
play.
Alcorn State leads the SWAC men's race but is only 12-7 overall. The
Braves have won all 11 of their conference games.
The defending champion Howard Lady Bison (12-8) have won nine straight
and are 11-0 in MEAC play.
Hampton's men (17-5) have won nine straight and stand at 12-0 in the
conference.
- Alabama A&M guard Desmond Cambridge leads the Southwestern
Athletic Conference and all black college players averaging 5.06 steals per
game (81 in 16 games) a mark that is also tops in the nation among NCAA Div. I
players.
- Shaw's six-foot, eight-inch center Steve Bynes leads all of Div. II
in field goal percentage shooting at a 67.2 percent clip (129 of 192).
- Latesha Lee of Jackson State currently leads the nation's Div.
I players averaging 4.9 steals per game (84 in 17 games). Grambling guard
Shrieka Evans is fourth at 4.2 (71 in 17 games).
- North Carolina A&T senior forward Bruce Jenkins leads the Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference and all black college rebounders pulling in 12.2 per game,
a mark that leaves him second nationally among NCAA Div. I players.
- Shaw guard Ronald Murray, the top men's scorer in black college basketball,
continues to hold down second place in scoring on the Div. II level. Murray (24.5
ppg.) has trailed Longwood's Jason Pryor (28.9) all season long.
- Bowie State's Omarr Smith is second in the nation in free throw percentage
(93%, 40 of 43).
- Hampton senior guard Tommy Adams is eighth in the nation in
three-pointers made per game averaging 3.5 baskets from behind the arc.
- Southern Lady Jags' standout Jaclyn Winfield is seventh in the nation
in Div. I in scoring at 21.5 ppg.
- Howard center Andrea Gardner, who led the nation's Div. I rebounders
(14.4) a year ago, is currently fifth at 11.6 per game.
- Shaw guard Jamie McDonald is fourth in NCAA Div. II stats in
assists at 6.2 per game.
- N. C. Central guard Zakia VanHoose is fifth in Div. II steals
at 4.8 per game (76 in 16 games).
- Charles Boyd of Fort Valley State is third in Div. II in blocked
shots at 3.1 per game. Virginia Union center Wayne Taylor is seventh
at 2.9 while J. C. Smith leaper Marco Spears is eighth at 2.8.
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