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NCCU Has First Winning Season Since 1 96869 Under the tutelage of Tournament honors this second year coach Jesse year. He was once Clements, North Carolina selected NAIA District 26 Central enjoyed its first and CIAA Player of the winning season since Week. He led the district 1968-6- 9. The Eagles in scoring and was second finished the year 15-1- 4. in the CIAA. They finished the regular His runningmate senior season with a 14-1- 2 guard Donald Sinclair record, ending up third in ended up at 18.8. He was & the CIAA Southern Divi- voted ALL-Tournam- IyIS i J.:.. J ' sion with an 11-- 8 record. in the recent CIAA i In the CIAA tourney held tourney. He led the team February 26-2- 8, they upset with 1SS assists. 74-6- 6 David Hampton before Junior forward v '.1 falling to Virginia State Binion averaged over IS 88- -82. points per game. He led They qualified for the the district and CIAA with NAIA District 26 playoffs 11.5 rebounds per game. and lost to Gardner-Web- b The last time that the 89--79 on Monday, March Eagles had: a winning 2 in Winston-Sale- season was 1968-6- 9 when Junior forward John Floyd Brown's charges Bishop led the Eagles in were 12-1- 0. scoring with a 23 The 15 wins was the average. He was accorded most since the 1967-6- 8 ALL-CIA- A, NAIA season when the Eagles District 26 and ALL--! were 16-- 9 under Brown. Elizabeth City State Wins David Binion John Bishop Donald Sinclair 36th CIAA Ellz St 76 Whitaker Tourney Julius Norman of City 96, Fay 8, Carter 6. St. Pratt, Carter Lee FAY Aug 80, Norfolk 77 30, Threatt. 4. Va State 78 State ST (76) Mimt 30, Blackwail J C SMITH (103) tat8J. Virginia was selected Thompson 7, NORFOLK (77) Alan 12, Pope 20. Wood 9, Bush S, WWaker 12 VA STATE 2. tterwan 28. 4, Person 4, Peoples, Robinson Oliver 22, (71) Ut , VA Elizabeth City' also won the tournament the Most 21, George 17, Logan 17,. Thomas 6, Tibbs 13, Walker 8. Pratt TbraaR Ban Outstanding 2, McNeil Floras 14. Straughn 4. 11, Stttta, Singleton 8, Cunningham 24, Tibbs 32-3- led the venerable in 1969. 14, Simmons, Johnson, Haynes Peterson HairUmo: NCCU 0. Wand WkBsfcar State, by Player of the Tourna- 5, Davis 2, Bacon, 6, 3, 3, StiMuhn I, 2, I. Gilliard, Jones. Smith, Reid 2, Singleton, Lowery. Stalhvorth Davis won ELIZ CITY 1, 2, Aklns. Ohm 1, Carter. Bobby VaUghan, the Virginia State reached ment. Norman on (97) Grooms 11, Halftime: J C Smith 56-5- Joining ST AUG (80) Boggan Elz City 57. St Aug 52 ELIZ CITY Wyche 4, Hines Gaskins 19, Bailey 7, (83) Breemei 4. Wyche 36th Annual CIAA the finals by the team 10, 23, Brown ST AUG 2. upsetting Bland Carter 12, Taylor 12, McFarland 18. (52) Bega 12, Baler 12, Hines I. Bat Una 21. Bbad 12. in the 109-10- 22, 18, West, Franklin, NCCU 74, Hampton 66 Carroll Tourney Norfolk Johnson C. Smith 3 were teammate Darrell 2, Cook 10, Johnson. Brawn 3, Taylor 2, McFariand B, ReiMrts. West 1. Hardy 2, Carter 2. Roberts 3, Brown, Maddox 6, Bur- NCCU Griffin Binion (74) 2, 12, Halftime: Norfolk 43-4- 0. Carrel Cook Scope. The Vikings open- in the first round and Stith, Elizabeth Ar- ton. 12, 10, Davenport 3, hladta Brown 12. Freekin. City's Murphy 14, Sinclair 10, Bishop 24, Johnson. J, 36-3- Fnxfor, Bnifatw. ed the tourney with a North Carolina Central thur Gaskins and Pierre Halftime: Eliz City 0. Evans 4, -- Oakley 2, Taylor 4, Tyson. Va State ELIZ CITY 37-3- 97-7- 88, NCCU 82 (57) Groemts Wyche Va State 4; - 6 win over 88-8- 2 HAMPTON I, HaWa: legota- Fayetteville in the semifinals. Bland, (66) Washington 14, NCCU 74-- Anthony Boggan (82) Griffin 6, Binion 20, 2, Hines 12. Gaskins 11, Bland 12. tjeM al Va State 109, J C Smith 103 Marquetti 12, Hines Warwick State. They upended St. St. 13, Murphy 15, Sinclair West Carter 2. Roberts. ALL-CIA- A The Eagles over- of Augustine's and VA STATE Norman 22, Bishop 17, Hardy. 2, TEAM 57-5- (109) Lee, 19, 15, Hankerson 8, Moore 2 in 74-6- Spencer, Evans, Taylor, Burton, Brawn, Maddox 1. 1 Augustine's the powered Hampton 6 NCCU's Donald Sinclair Pratt. Threatt Stith Bush Tyson. Oakley 2, Steve Fa - 6, 25, 6, 2, Godwin. 31-2- Mims, yet- 1. semi-fina- ls Wright. Halftime: 8$ CNy and in their and Dixon, Wood 30-2- Virginia, opener while St. John Bishop. 13, Straughn 26, Halftime: Hampton 9. VA STATE 83-7- (88) Stith 21. Norman (Continued on Page 6) State 8 in overtime in Augustine's bested Nor- the finals. The Vikings folk State 80-7- 7. In the Black Colleges A Historical Chronology 1

By John B. "Johnny Me" McLendon Converse Basketball Advisor and Contributing Editor to Black Yearbook JNW Publications Reprinted with permission of JNW Publications, do Collk J. Nicholson, 3SIS Lak fshore Dr., Shrevtport, La. 71109. Preview Period V, 1960-197- 0 Black college stars have scintilated throughout the sixties and seventies. National Championships, both NAIA AND NCAA, have been won by Grambling, Prairie View, Coppin State, Cheney State, Central State, Winston-Sale- Texas Southern, Morgan State, and Kentucky State. Few will argue that Kentucky State was the nonpareil force in college division basketball in the early seventies. They won NAIA titles in '70, '71 and '72 to match Tennessee State as the only other team to annex three consecutive titles. Lucias T. Mitchell scaled the heights as NAIA coach of the year in addition to winning title togas before leav- ing Kentucky to take the reins at Norfolk State. He has one of the bright minds in the game. Equally impressive is the remarkable record of Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines of Winston-Sale- m who started this season with 620 victories. Still approaching his peak after 33 full seasons with the Rams, Gaines trails only , Kentucky (874), , Kansas (771), Hank Iba, Oklahoma State (767), Ed Diddle, Western Kentucky (759), and These days, joining any of the services to get , UCLA (667) in the number of career vic- for college is a smart idea. tories. money Fred Hobdy is recognized as the Mongoose of the But only the Army combines good-size- d college SWAC after 22 seasons at Grambling. His career record benefits with a short two-ye-ar enlistment. C458-18- 4) is matched by few mentors anywhere. Coaches around the SI AC chorused "Auld Lang Through the Army, you could accumulate gen- Syne" with fond memories when Leonidas Epps, long- erous educational benefits for in two time Clark retired for health college just years. College coach, reasons a s year ago. Only the Army-offer- them. And only the Army In 34 years of college tutoring, Epps amassed 424 offers the widest variety ofchoices oflocation or training, too. wins to become the winningest active mentor in NCAA Division III. If you're in a hurry to earn money for school, The remaining story of black college basketball is re- consider the two-ye-ar enlistment. It can the Army's get you counted by general media each day in a manner few for before lose middle-ag- e fans ever expected to see. Blacks are money college you even start to your coaching at predominately white universities and in the study habits. pro ranks, a far cry from total exclusion in the first half of this century. Serve your country as you serve yourself. Call At least four players who mastered their craft on 800-4-2 Better yet, look in the Yellow Pages black campuses , , and Bob Hopkins have served as tutors in the NBA. under "Recruiting:' Attles won the NBA championship in '75. It is almost impossible to watch any game on TV without men of oolpr dominating the action. Basketball has truly emerged from the dark age to provide equal opportunity on the playing courts and on the coaching benches. The only barrier is talent. For the gifted player, THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!!!!!

Editor's Note: As college basketball comes to the end of another season, so we come to the end of this series of articles written by one who was so intimately involved in the sport of basketball and its evolvement in black col- leges Coach John B. McLendon. We hope you have enjoyed the series and have saved these articles for its history which is unlikely to be found in the future. . We are indebted to Coach McLendon for allowing us to share it with you, our readers.

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