Sports

by Chris Stevens Another HBCU basketball coach opening has been filled, this time by a veteran who knows her way around the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Johnetta Hayes, who coached Texas Southern to three straight regular season […]

by Chris Stevens Donte’ Jackson has no hard feelings about his eight seasons at Grambling, but he felt a change was in order. That’s what the new Alabama A&M men’s basketball coach told Matt Belinson in the Monday edition […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. | The Alabama A&M University baseball team jumped out to leads in both games of its Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) doubleheader on Saturday with rival Alabama State, but could not stop the high-powered Hornets […]

by HBCU Sports For the first time in 27 years, the Alabama State women’s basketball team will open the 2025-26 season with a new head coach. Freda Freeman-Jackson, who won multiple SWAC championships and was inducted into the […]

Less than 24 hours after his Norfolk State women’s team competed boldly in a first round NCAA Tournament loss at Maryland, head coach Larry Vickers has a new job. Sunday morning Vickers, who has led […]

by HBCU Sports In a nail-biting contest that came down to the wire, the Chattanooga Mocs women’s basketball team secured a hard-fought 53-49 victory over the Alabama A&M Bulldogs in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitation […]

by HBCU Sports Larry Vickers accomplished a lot in nearly a decade as Norfolk State coach. And that success — particularly over the last four seasons, including three MEAC championships and four postseason appearances mixed in […]

LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor Men’s and women’s tournament champions of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) were in play-in (First Four) games early this week while men’s and women’s tournament champions from the Mid Eastern Athletic […]

by HBCU Sports The Alabama State Hornets defeated the Jackson State Tigers 60-56 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference men’s basketball championship on Saturday night at the Gateway Center Arena. The No. 5 seed Hornets (19-15, 14-6 SWAC) clinched […]

by Chris Stevens Days after the conclusion of the SWAC basketball tournament, one women’s program in the conference will take a new direction. “As I step into the next chapter of my life, I am filled […]