Cole named BOXTOROW Player of the Year, All-Americans announced

boxtorow.com With Final Four Week as the backdrop, BOXTOROW releases its annual men’s Division I All-America teams. North Carolina Central redshirt-senior guard Patrick Cole was named BOXTOROW National Player of the Year.  The Newark, N.J. native was named MEAC Player of the Year last month and helped to lead the Eagles to the MEAC regular season

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BOXTOROW Goes One on One Podcast: LeVelle Moton

  North Carolina Central head men’s basketball coach LeVelle Moton has led the Eagles to the second MEAC Tournament championship in four seasons as the Eagles defeated Norfolk State 67-59 on Saturday. The Eagles enter the NCAA Tournament as a No. 16-seed and will face fellow 16-seed UC Davis on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. Moton

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Grambling crowned HBCU national champions

[insert_php] /* hide author info except on post */ if (is_single()) { echo “boxtorow.com”; } [/insert_php] Fourteen times before, the Grambling State Tigers were named national champions. Now make it fifteen. By virtue of its 10-9 victory over North Carolina Central in the Celebration Bowl on Saturday, Grambling was named 2016 HBCU national champions in

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Grambling defeats NCCU in Celebration Bowl; expected to be named HBCU national champs

boxtorow.com ATLANTA – On Monday the Grambling Tigers most likely will be crowned HBCU national champions. That’s because of their 10-9 victory over North Carolina Central in the Celebration Bowl before a crowd of 31,096 at the Georgia Dome. A defensive battle throughout and with the Tigers leading 10-3 late in the fourth quarter, Eagles

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Mack Named MEAC Coach of the Year, all-conference teams announced

NORFOLK, Va. – Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Champion North Carolina Central University and runner-up North Carolina A&T State University dominated the 2016 All-MEAC Football Team with 30 student-athletes between both teams. The team is voted on by the MEAC’s head football coaches and sports information directors. North Carolina A&T State’s Brandon Parker was selected as the

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