Will this be the year the MEAC has one champion? by Donal Ware boxtorow.com For the first time since 2012, the MEAC had an outright champion in 2016. The champion was North Carolina Central. Last year showed how the conference continues to gain respect as one of the more competitive conferences in FCS. Both the
boxtorow.com The 2017 college football season is upon us and media members from around the country have selected the 2017 BOXTOROW Preseason All-America Team. Last year’s BOXTOROW Willie Davis Defensive Player of the Year, South Carolina State linebacker Darius Leonard, and Grambling quarterback DeVante Kincade lead the team. Leonard and Kincade are two of the
boxtorow.com After one of the most memorable seasons in HBCU football and FCS for that matter, there is no surprise that the Grambling State Tigers sit atop the BOXTOROW Coaches Poll, which was released on Monday. All 22 coaches voted and the Tigers received 18 first-place votes. The Tigers opened the 2016 season with a
Grambling head football coach Broderick Fobbs, Winston-Salem State head football coach Kienus Boulware, and North Carolina Central head football coach Jerry Mack.
Today the Eagles were picked to win the MEAC championship at MEAC Media Day. Host Donal Ware talks about last years run to the championship and what this year’s Eagles look like with Jonas Pope, Eagles beat writer for the Herald-Sun in Durham and also a replay with head coach Jerry Mack from last week’s
by Donal Ware boxtorow.com Savannah State University moving down from Division I to Division II is the right move. And it’s probably something that should have happened sooner. The school announced on Monday that it was reclassifying from Division I to Division II because of financial reasons. SSU athletics director Sterling Steward told the Savannah
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
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
by Donal Ware boxtorow.com Tennessee State has the best recruiting class amongst Division I HBCUs. Again. For the second year in a row and third time in five years it was clear after extensive research of the 22 schools that the Tigers class was No. 1. As a matter of fact, TSU is perennially in
Like the rest of college football, it was a case of the haves and have-nots. We are seeing quite a few bowl games taking place where teams are barely bowl eligible. Such was the case in HBCU football in an unusual year where every team in the SWAC’s Eastern Division had a losing record, for