FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 7 - 13, 2009 2008-09 BCSP "BAAD TEAM" OF BlACK COLLEGE ALL-STARS ™ McKEE SCOTT BOYD BROOKS TAYLOR-JAMES ELLIS WEREMA TARPKINS BCSP Photos OUSTED?: Both men's POST coach Kevin Nickelberry Hilliard, Moss named top players (top) and women's coach By LUT WILLIAMS Walter Mebane (bottom) ing with his second West Virginia Intercollegiate SEASON BCSP Editor let go at Hampton in same Athletic Conference player of the year award this MOVES week. Anthony Hilliard and Shantrell Moss season. Playing on great teams under head coach have a lot in common. Bryan Poore at WVSU, the Columbus, Ohio native NICK OUT AT HAMPTON; BOWIE STATE GETS Hillard, a senior swingman at Elizabeth averaged 9.6 and 15.4 points per game his first two GRID COACH; "BAAD TEAM" PLAYERS NAMED City State is listed at a generous 6-foot, 4- seasons before exploding for 27.0 points per game inches tall. He's hardly that. to win his first POY award in the 2006-07 season. Moss, a senior who also swung between He was felled with a knee injury and played guard, forward and wherever else she was only two games in the 2007-08 season but came UNDER THE BANNER needed for Clark Atlanta, is listed at 5-foot, back to win the award again after putting up 23.4 9-inches. points per game for the Yellow Jackets this year. WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS They're both overachievers who led their Scott finishes his career as WVSU's all-time scoring teams to previously unachievable heights. STAT BOX STUFFERS: Shantrell Moss of Clark leader with 2,368 points (19.7 ppg.). Atlanta (l.) and Anthony Hillard of Elizabeth BOWIE STATE GRID COACH: Hillard, who hails from Fayetteville, N.C., The 2009 SIAC Player of the Year, 6-8 senior City State (r.) are BCSP selections as the top Kenny Boyd of Morehouse, averaged 15.9 points Bowie State University and Athletic Director Derek at only the listed 6-4, led the CIAA in scoring women's and men's basketball players of the and 9.0 rebounds per game for the Maroon Tigers. Carter have officially announced the (23.2 points per game) and rebounding (11.1 2008-09 season. The Meridian, Ms. native who played two years for hiring of Damon Wilson as head per game) for the second year in a row. He won his second straight CIAA player of the careers in conference history this season by Morehouse after transferring from Meridian CC, football coach. year award while leading ECSU to its second being named that league's player of the year. averaged 15.9 points and 10.1 rebounds a year ago. "We're extremely happy to straight 20-win season, a feat never accom- In his first year after transferring from Alabama State point guard and SWAC Player have a product of Bowie State return plished in Vikings' history. This year, based on Temple, McKee won the league's rookie of the of the Year Brandon Brooks rounds out the men's to serve this great institution and feel his stellar play, Hilliard is the BLACK COLLEGE year award and was named second team all- first team. Brooks, from Irving, Tx., led the Hornets confident Damon will be a great fit SPORTS PAGE player of the year and leader of MEAC after averaging a team-best 15.4 points to their second straight regular season title and this for the overall program," said Carter the "Baad Team" of men's black college all- per game and being among the leaders in nine year's tournament crown averaging 14.2 points and a BSU Sports Photo Wilson is no stranger to the stars. statistical categories. As a sophomore, he aver- SWAC and black college best 6.8 assists per game. Former WILSON: Bulldogs program having served Moss, a Fort Lauderdale, Fl. native and aged 17.4 points per game, again best on the Joining Moss on the women's first team is Bulldog returns to as the Special Teams and Running former ACC champion sprinter at Georgia team, was among the conference leaders in seven MEAC player of the year, North Carolina A&T alma mater. Brittanie Taylor-James Backs coach (2007) and most recent- Tech before transferring to CAU, used that categories and was named to the all-MEAC first senior forward , who led team. the MEAC in scoring (18.9 ppg.) and helped garner ly served as Assistant Head Coach/Running Back Coach sprinter speed and athletic ability to torch The 2007-08 season saw him take it up regular season and tournament titles for the Lady at Prairie View A&M University (2008). Prior to that, he SIAC opponents to the tune of a league-best 24.8 points per game and a hefty 9.8 rebounds another level, averaging 16.6 points to repeat Aggies. Taylor-James hails from Evanston, Ill. coached three seasons as an assistant for Texas Southern per contest. That latter stat was about one- as a first team selection but then taking over the St. Paul's junior guard Tatiana Ellis, ranked University (2004-2007) and roamed the BSU Bulldogs and-a-half rebounds per game from pulling off MEAC Tournament to lead the seventh-seeded 10th nationally in Div. II in scoring at 22.2 points sideline from 1999-2003, serving in several capacities the scoring-rebounding double that Hilliard Eagles to the championship while earning the per game which topped the CIAA and earned her including Special Team Coordinator. achieved. Moss led the Lady Panthers to a 26-4 tournament's most outstanding player award. that conference's player of the year honor. Ellis, Wilson played tight end for Bowie State (1997-1998), record, their first top 25 national ranking and McKee scored a season-high 33 points in the from Harlem, N.Y., averaged 2.2 3s per game to also earning All-CIAA First Team honors. The Washington, first NCAA Div. II playoff berth. title game including canning the game-winning top the league. DC native, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from While Moss's scoring numbers were the shot with 2.4 seconds to play that felled top-seed Prairie View junior forward Gatti Werema Bowie State in 2000 and is a member of Omega Psi Phi best in black college women's basketball, and cross town rival Morgan State. He scored a earned the SWAC player of the year award. Werema, Fraternity, Incorporated. In his spare time, Wilson enjoys Hillard's rebounding stats topped the men. tournament-record 93 points. from Miami, led the Lady Panthers to SWAC regu- working with kids, fishing and attending sporting events. Moss's incredible season earns her the Granted another year of eligibility by the lar season and tournament titles averaging just 11.6 NCAA, McKee was second in the MEAC in points and 7.6 rebounds but came thru in the clutch "I'm very excited about the opportunity of being the women's BCSP player of the year award and scoring this season at 18.4 points per game, scoring 29 points and grabbing 16 rebounds in their head coach of Bowie State University," said Wilson. "It's the top spot on the women's "Baad Team." Joining Hilliard on the men's first team are averaged 5.7 rebounds while leading the league tournament title game win. very exciting to come back home and head your program deserving players of the year with impressive in steals (2.3 spg.). He finished as Coppin State's The Fort Valley State backcourt tandem of as an alumnus." credentials in four other conferences. all-time leader in points (2,158) and the only juniors Takesha Riggs and Shekiya Tarpkins Coppin State guard Tywain McKee has player in CSU's history to lead the team in scor- rounds out the women's first team. The nearly MID-MAJOR AWARD TO BOZEMAN: been a star and a player one could not ignore ing in four consecutive seasons. inseparable duo averaged 19.1 (Riggs) and 16.9 After leading Morgan State to a second consecu- ever since he entered the MEAC four years West Virginia State guard Ted Scott also (Tarpkins) points for the Lady Wildcats who swept tive MEAC regular season championship and the pro- ago and capped one of the most outstanding has also had an impressive career culminat- to SIAC regular season and tournament titles. gram's first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, Todd Bozeman has been named the recipient of the 2009 Hugh Durham Award. BCSP Notes "Coach Bozeman did a phe- Nickelberry, Mebane out at Hampton ness to do. This extension gives me the opportunity to nomenal job," says Joe Dwyer, Kevin Nickelberry has resigned as head men's basketball coach at leave a winning legacy at Jackson State." co-founder of CollegeInsider.com Hampton University in order to pursue other professional opportunities, Anderson, who guided the Tigers to a Southwestern and member of the Durham Award according to Lonza Hardy Jr., the school's athletics Athletic Conference tournament championship in MSU Sports Photo selection committee. "He lost the director. Hardy said Nickelberry decided to resign 2007, has a 66-42 SWAC record and a 95-100 overall BOZEMAN: Has MEAC player of the year (Jamar at this time so that his departure would not have an mark at Jackson State. JSU's 2007 SWAC title was the led Morgan State Smith), defensive player of the year adverse affect on the program's recruitment efforts.