UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
LEWIS TO REPLACE GRANT: Associate Head Coach
Doug Lewis has been named to succeed Michael R.
Grant as head coach of the Central State
University men's basketball program. Grant, who had
a 126-94 record in seven seasons at the helm of the Marauders, resigned
to become the head men's basketball coach at Southern
University in Baton Rouge, La. Lewis began his coaching career as an assistant
at Washington High School in Milwaukee, in 1992. The next year he
joined the staff at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee which plays in the Horizon Conference
and worked there for five seasons before coming to CSU to be
the number one assistant under Grant. In 2000 he was
promoted to Associate Head Coach. Lewis played for Mesa
(AZ) Community College and then transferred to Southwest
Missouri State University where he graduated in 1989 with
a degree in Communications. He was the Mid-Continent
Conference Newcomer of the Year his junior season and
All-Conference as a senior. SWMS went to the NCAA
Division I Tournament both years that Lewis played. At
SWMS, Lewis was coached by Charlie Spoonhour.
BASEBALL BRACKETS: Black college champions Southern and Bethune-Cookman will begin play in the NCAA Baseball Championship Regionals on Friday, May 30. The 29th ranked Southwestern Athletic Conference Jaguars of Southern (43-5) received a third seed in the Regional at Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Ms., and will take on the host team at 3 p.m. Friday. The number three seeding in the four-team field in Hattiesburg marks the first time Southern, a three-time SWAC champion, has traveled outside Baton Rouge for a regional and the first time the Jags have gotten out of the No. 4 spot. Baylor (41-14) is seeded first in the region with Southern Mississippi second. Murray State (25-29) is the fourth seed. Southern features the nation's top hitter (.497) in second baseman Rickie Weeks, the two-time SWAC Player of the Year and a finalist for the prestigious Golden Spikes Award. Mid Eastern Athletic Conference champ Bethune-Cookman (30-26) has the unenviable task of travelling to face top region seed University of Miami (39-14-1) on its home field in Coral Gables, Fl., Friday at 7 p.m. B-CC goes in as a fourth seed. Florida Atlantic (46-14) is the second seed while Florida (34-19-1) is seeded third. It will be the third all-Florida regional in which B-CC has played in five years, dating back to the Wildcats' first regional in Coral Gables in 1999.
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