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Morgan State Lady Bears Basketball
The Morgan State Lady Bears basketball team represents Morgan State University, located in Baltimore, Maryland, in Division I basketball competition. They currently compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Lady Bears play their home games at the Talmadge L. Hill Field House Talmadge L. Hill Field House is a 4,250-seat multi-purpose arena in Baltimore, Maryland. It was opened in 1974, replacing Hurt Gymnasium, and is named for former Morgan State Bears men's basketball coach Talmadge L. Hill. It is home to the Mo .... Their head coach is Ed Davis Jr. who enters his 5th year in the position. The Lady Bears returned to Division I play and the MEAC in 1984, after an absence of 5 years. They have never won the MEAC Women's Basketball Tournament or have made a NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament appearance. Postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament The Lady Bears have made one appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament, with a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan State University
Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1867, the university, then known as the Centenary Biblical Institute, changed its name to Morgan College to honor Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees and a land donor to the college. It became a university in 1975. Morgan State is a member of Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Although a public institution, Morgan State is not part of the University System of Maryland. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". History Morgan State University (MSU) is a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, a Methodist Episcopal seminary, to train young men in the ministry. At the time of his death, Thomas Kelso, co-founder and president of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Cavaliers Women's Basketball
The Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team represents the University of Virginia in women's basketball. The school competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Cavaliers play home basketball games at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia. They are currently coached by Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, who was hired on March 21, 2022. Season records since 1990 The Cavaliers reached the Final Four in three consecutive seasons, reaching the title game in 1991, losing 70–67 to Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ... in overtime. NCAA tournament results The Cavaliers have appeared in 25 NCAA Tournaments, with a record of 34-25. References External links * {{Virginia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship
The 1981 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship was the second annual tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its Division II members in the United States. The tournament was held at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. William Penn defeated College of Charleston in the championship game, 64–51, to capture the Statesmen's first AIAW Division II national title. Format Sixteen teams participated in a single-elimination tournament A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ..., a decrease in eight teams from the previous year's championship. The tournament also included a third-place game for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games. Tournament brack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of Charleston Cougars Women's Basketball
The Charleston Cougars women's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Colonial Athletic Association. Home games are played at TD Arena, located on College of Charleston's campus in Charleston, South Carolina. The Cougars are coached by Robin Harmony, completing her second season. History The College of Charleston women Maroons were first formed in 1919. Pierrine Smith Byrd, who would become the College's first female graduate in 1922, was the team's first captain. They joined the Trans America Athletic Conference (now known as the ASUN Conference) in 1991. They joined the Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly k ... in 1998. They joined the CAA in 2013. They have made the Women's Basketball Invitational in 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berry Vikings
Berry College is a private liberal arts college in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Berry College was founded on values based on Christian principles in 1902 by Martha Berry. History In 1902 Martha Berry, daughter of a prominent local business owner, founded the Boys Industrial School on 83 acres of land inherited from her father. In exchange or an education, male students of the school would work to help build, run, and maintain the new school. In 1909, the Martha Berry School for Girls was added, and collectively with the boys school became known as the Berry Schools. The free labor provided by the students helped to keep construction and operating costs for the schools low. In 1926 the school became a junior college and several years later a senior college, graduating its first class in 1932. During the 1930s the school campus grew to 30,000 acres, helped by a large donation fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hofstra Pride Women's Basketball
The Hofstra Pride women's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Colonial Athletic Association. History The Pride has made eight appearances in postseason play, two being in the AIAW Division II National Tournament (1980, 1982) and four being in the WNIT (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016). They beat Stony Brook 92–65 for their first ever postseason win before losing to Villanova 71–46 in the next round. They made the Quarterfinals in 2007 and 2016. Postseason AIAW College Division/Division II The Pride, then known as the Flying Dutchmen, made one appearance in the AIAW National Division II Basketball Tournament The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship
The 1980 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship was the inaugural tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its Division II members in the United States. The tournament was held at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. Hosts Dayton defeated College of Charleston in the championship game, 83–53, to capture the Flyers' first AIAW Division II national title. Format Twenty-four teams participated in a single-elimination tournament, with eight teams receiving byes into the second round. The tournament also included a third-place game for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games. Tournament bracket See also * 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship *1980 AIAW National Division III Basketball Championship The 1980 AIAW National Division III Basketball Championship was the inaugural tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIAW National Division II Basketball Tournament
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (founded in 1967). The association was one of the biggest advancements for women's athletics on the collegiate level. Throughout the 1970s, the AIAW grew rapidly in membership and influence, in parallel with the national growth of women's sports following the enactment of Title IX. The AIAW functioned in the equivalent role for college women's programs that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had been doing for men's programs. Owing to its own success, the AIAW was in a vulnerable position that precipitated conflicts with the NCAA in the early 1980s. Following a one-year overlap in which both organizations staged women's championships, the AIAW discontinued operation, and most member schools co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2011 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. The tournament was played entirely on campus sites. The highest ranked team in each conference that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament received an automatic bid to this tournament. The remaining slots were filled by the WNIT Selection Committee. In the championship game, the Toledo Rockets defeated the USC Trojans, 76–68, before a sellout crowd of 7,301 at Savage Arena in Toledo, Ohio. The tournament MVP, Naama Shafir, scored a career-high 40 points to lead the Rockets. 2010 Preseason WNIT At the beginning of the season, there is a Preseason WNIT. Round 1 *The games for round one were played on November 12. Bracket 1 *Purdue* 93, Austin Peay 53 *Toledo* 71, St. Francis (PA) 66 *South Dakota State* 87, Ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in baseball (since 1994), men's basketball (since 1981), women's basketball (since 1982), softball (since 1995), men's and women's tennis (since 1998), and volleyball (since 1994). Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC governed sport in 1999. Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women's bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996–97 school year. History In 1969, a group whose members were long associated with interscholastic athletics met in Durham, North Carolina for the purpose of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's National Invitation Tournament
The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament with a preseason and postseason version played every year. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and NIT Season Tip-Off. Unlike the NIT, the women's tournament is not run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is an independent national championship. Triple Crown Sports, a company based in Fort Collins, Colorado that specializes in the promotion of amateur sporting events, created the WNIT in 1994 as a preseason counterpart to the then-current National Women's Invitational Tournament (NWIT). After the NWIT folded in 1996, Triple Crown Sports resurrected the postseason version in 1998 under the NWIT name, but changed the following season to the current name. Format Preseason The WNIT began in 1994 as a 16-team preseason tournament; the preseason version has remained at that field size throughout its hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
