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Mike Potter ·
15 Feb 2010, 9:46 PM ·
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McDOUGALD-McLENDON GYM/DURHAM N.C. Central is on a winning streak with three straight victories over Division I teams at home.
But if the 7-20 Eagles are going to continue it, they’ll probably have to play their best game of the year tonight.
The opponent is Big South leader Coastal Carolina (22-5), mentored by former Clemson and Auburn coach Cliff Ellis who is currently No. 15 on the active Division I wins list. It’s the schools’ first meeting in basketball, and NCCU will return the game next season.
It’s the Eagles’ final home game and of course Senior Night, with Joshua Worthy and Clee Sherrod II being honored. Worthy already graduated in December.
It’s no surprise as Coastal wins 68-57, getting a huge early lead and then never letting the Eagles any closer than eight back in the second half.
The Eagles get off to an awful start, trailing 17-0 before Dami Sapara finally scores at 11:37.
And they get it going the rest of the half, trailing only 31-20 at the break as Joseph Harris leads the Chanticleers with 11 points. The problem is rebounding, as the visitors dominate the boards 22-9 before the break.
The Eagles never really threaten, but bolstered by a noisy home crowd of 2,421 never give up either.
Mario Edwards leads Coastal with 18 points, followed by Harris with 16 and Kierre Greenwood 13.
Nick Chasten (pictured) paces NCCU with 17 points, followed by C.J. Wilkerson with 16 and Vincent Davis 11. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
15 Feb 2010, 2:01 AM ·
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N.C. Central is on a three-game winning streak in men’s basketball, all at home and against real-live Division I competition.
Tonight, the Eagles (7-20) will see if that recent home-court magic can help them pull off a big upset.
The opponent is Big South Conference leader Coastal Carolina (22-5), coached by former Clemson and Auburn mentor Cliff Ellis.
It’s the final home game for NCCU, and Joshua Worthy (pictured) will be honored on Senior Night. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
13 Feb 2010, 10:07 PM ·
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McDOUGALD-McLENDON GYM/DURHAM N.C. Central is in Durham for the fourth of a five-game homestand, and the Eagles have a chance to keep a very good thing going.
LeVelle Moton’s club (6-20) has won two straight games, both against Division I teams. And tonight’s opponent is independent Longwood, a team the Eagles beat here last season to split a home-and home series. The teams will play again on Feb. 25 in Farmville, Va.
Longwood (9-16) is on a five-game winning streak including a pair of non-Division I teams, but it includes a road victory over Fairleigh-Dickinson. But that goes by the boards as four Eagles score at least 15 points each in an 81-78 victory. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
20 Dec 2009, 11:50 PM ·
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N.C. Central finally got a win in women’s basketball, while No. 9 UNC had to come back to beat South Carolina on a day when both of those teams were playing on neutral courts.
Freshman Joanna Miller (pictured) led NCCU (1-9) with 21 points and was named to the all-tournament team while three teammates were in double figures as the Eagles topped Houston Baptist 75-60 in the consolation game of the USF Shootout. In the nightcap, East Carolina won the title with a 63-60 victory over host South Florida.
Meanwhile, Cetera DeGraffenreid scored a career-high 26 points and added 10 assists for the Tar Heels as they took out South Carolina 93-85 at the Carolinas Challenge in Myrtle Beach.
For N.C. Central, freshman J’Mia Pollock added her first double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds while Danielle DeBerry had a career-high 18 points and Latoya Bennett chipped in 17.
Taniqua Hollis led Houston Baptist with 17 points while Megan Green added 12.
Italee Lucas added 23 points, Chay Shegog 17 and Waltiea Rolle 10 for the Tar Heels.
USC’s freshman Kelsey Bone had 27 points and 10 rebounds for her fourth double-double season. Valerie Nainima added 26 points for the Gamecocks while Ieasia Walker chipped in 12.
In other games in Myrtle Beach, Coastal Carolina beat Savannah State 57-41 and Francis Marion walloped Bluefield 111-77.
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Mike Potter ·
20 Dec 2009, 2:00 AM ·
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UNC plays for state-line bragging rights today in the Tar Heels’ annual visit to Myrtle Beach.
The No. 9 Heels will take on South Carolina (6-3) at around 3 p.m. in the middle game of the Carolinas Challenge tripleheader at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. All six teams in the event have winning records.
Francis Marion (8-0) will face Bluefield (8-4) at 1 p.m., with Coastal Carolina (7-3) facing Savannah State (8-5) in the nightcap that is supposed to start at 5 p.m. Right.
UNC has played at least one game in Myrtle Beach each year since 1994 under Coach Sylvia Hatchell (pictured).
Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks, 4-0 against teams from North Carolina this season, are looking for their third straight win over an ACC opponent after defeating visiting N.C. State and Wake Forest in back-to-back games in Columbia. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
23 Nov 2009, 7:56 PM ·
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UNC’s Cetera DeGraffenreid, who averaged 21 points in two games, has named ACC women’s basketball player of the week.
DeGraffenreid (pictured) had 20 points with eight assists, a career high-tying eight steals and six rebounds in 29 minutes on Wednesday against Coastal Carolina.
On Sunday at UNLV, the junior guard scored 22 points including 10-for-10 from the free-throw line.
Virginia’s Simone Egwu was named rookie of the week.
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Mike Potter ·
18 Nov 2009, 2:18 AM ·
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UNC looks to improve to 2-0 in women’s basketball tonight at 7 when Coastal Carolina visits the Smith Center.
Sylvia Hatchell’s Tar Heels, currently ranked No. 4 in the AP poll, are 12-0 all-time against the Chanticleers.
Coastal has won its first two games this season.
The Tar Heels won last season’s meeting 95-44 behind 17 points from Italee Lucas (pictured). Continue reading »
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Grayson Currin ·
16 Nov 2009, 6:24 PM ·
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CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—”That’s some beard, man,” Duke senior Brian Zoubek said Friday night in the Blue Devils locker room, smiling up at me from his seat. “Do you put Miracle-Gro in that thing?”
Indeed, through the Devils’ media day, exhibition games and their 96-62 rout of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro Spartans Friday night, Zoubek—the team’s only listed center—has been working through the stages of a beard. A few weeks ago, he told a group of reporters it was just a result of laziness. Friday night, though, he insisted it was possibly intimidating. And good for him: Last year, Zoubek might have been one of the least intimidating 7-foot-1 players in college basketball. Given his unsure hands and feet, there was a general sense that he—along with fellow Duke tower Lance Thomas—just wasn’t ready yet.
Friday night, though, he looked confident and energetic. Remember, Zoubek once fouled out last season after playing just seven minutes (against Presbyterian). Against UNC-G, though, he grabbed rebounds regularly, scored 14 points and only fouled three times in 16 minutes. I doubt the performance warrants the word intimidating, but Zoubek did play with a sense of purpose we rarely saw last year. The same goes for Lance Thomas, who spent the off-season adding much needed bulk to his formerly lanky frame and, as he said Friday night, evaluating his play on tape. In the absence of guard Nolan Smith, who returns to the point Tuesday night, Thomas was often left guarding the perimeter, which he did well. He paired down effectively against the bigger Spartans, too, and led the team in defensive rebounds with five. Last year, Duke’s big men struggled. This year, even with freshman Mason Plumlee out for several weeks with an injured wrist, they started possibly their biggest line-up ever Friday, and they performed.
Good news from a (now, at least) shallow bench, too: Freshmen Andre Dawkins and Ryan Kelly both appear to be, as billed, exciting players: Dawkins has a quick shot and a fast first step, and Kelly, at 6′10″, pairs extraordinary wingspan with the ability to step outside and hit three pointers (which he did once in two attempts Friday). The Devils look to improve tonight against Coastal Carolina in the opening night of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
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Mike Potter ·
2 Oct 2009, 4:12 PM ·
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It’s a game that has gone by many names in the past, like the “Aggie-Eagle Classic” for its long run at Raleigh’s Carter-Finley Stadium and the “Turkey Day Classic” back when it and every other big college football game in the country seemed to be played on Thanksgiving Day.
N.C. Central and North Carolina A&T will meet at Aggie Stadium on Saturday night at 6, marking the second time the teams have faced off in Greensboro in three years.
Although parents and children and husbands and wives and certainly neighbors and co-workers who are usually rational people may start snapping at each other the week of the football game, it’s not even a conference game yet.
It will be next season, when the Eagles will be officially football-playing members of the MEAC (they’ll be eligible for conference titles in 2011-12).
The last several meetings - NCCU has won three straight in the series, all by fewer than six points - certainly stick in the craw of everyone who wears Aggie Blue and Gold. It’s just as bad as for a UNC fan to endure a losing streak to Duke or an N.C. State fan to deal with several losses to the Tar Heels or for one side or another to have a losing streak in the Cal-Stanford or Army-Navy series in which NCCU mentor Mose Rison has participated as an assistant coach.,
“I can only speak for us, but we’re going to come out and play on Saturday,” Rison said. “The alumni message is ‘You’d better make sure you understand what this game means to us.’ I’m going to get this football team ready to play. It’s a great atmosphere and we’re glad to be a part of it.”
The last meeting in Greensboro ended with a 27-22 NCCU victory after Eric Ray intercepted a pass in his own end zone in the closing seconds. Aggie players took exception to a celebration by a couple of dozen NCCU players at midfield, and a few punches were thrown before campus cops brought out the mace. If you blinked you missed the whole thing, but the aftermath turned into a media circus for the next few days with both schools’ chancellors having to chime in.
Fortunately cooler heads prevailed, the series continued and A&T was among the unanimous voters to admit the Eagles to the MEAC.
“We don’t plan to let anybody come into our back yard and make it happen,” first-year A&T coach Alonzo Lee told the Greensboro News & Record. “That’s already happened one time this year with Hampton, and we’re not going to let it happen again. … We’re better because of the lessons we’ve learned.”
The Eagles were also winless last season before they played A&T, ending that streak with a 28-27 victory at a nearly full Memorial Stadium in Charlotte.
“All of us know rivalry games can go either way regardless of the record,” NCCU free safety Jeffery Henderson (pictured) said. “Either way, it’s the same type of setup as last year. We’re looking for a big win. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
30 Sep 2009, 4:42 PM ·
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Eleven home games plus trips to UNC and N.C. State highlight this season’s N.C. Central men’s basketball schedule
under new coach LeVelle Moton (pictured).
The Tar Heels and Wolfpack , which NCCU will face for the third straight season, are two of four ACC opponents along with Miami and Virginia Tech Moton’s team will be facing this time.
Other familiar opponents will include High Point, Savannah State and Longwood - with whom the Eagles will have home-and-home sets for the third straight season - as well as a visit to Colgate to face the Red Raiders for the third straight year.
The Eagles have six games on the schedule against in-state opponents, as they will host N.C. Wesleyan on Nov. 18 and travel to East Carolina on Jan. 3.
There is also one MEAC opponent on the slate, as Maryland-Eastern Shore will visit McLendon-McDougald Gym.
The Nov. 11 game with the Tar Heels, which will be both teams’ opener in the 2K Sports Classic Benefitting Coaches vs. Cancer, will be shown live at 9 p.m. on ESPN2. The rest of the event will have the Eagles visiting Florida International for games against the host Golden Panthers as well as Murray State and James Madison.
The UNC contest is one of the Eagles’ three scheduled TV games, as they will be on the Big Ten Network at Iowa on Nov. 28 at 12:35 p.m. and at Indiana on Dec. 19 at 8:30.
NCCU will also host the B.C. Powder Classic on Jan. 15-16, taking on Tennessee Temple and Apprentice with CIAA member Chowan as the de facto co-host.
The Eagles’ other home opponents will be Carver Bible, Florida Gulf Coast, Western Illinois and Coastal Carolina.
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