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HBCU Sports predicts the SWAC football order of finish for 2021

HBCU Sports predicts the SWAC football order of finish for 2021

With the July 1 addition of Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman making the Southwestern Athletic Conference a 12-team league and Alcorn State making the switch to the league’s West division, a heightened sense of anticipation is expectedly understandable. Back in May, after the SWAC’s spring football championship game, HBCU Sports’ Kenn Rashad and Kendrick Marshall published their 2021 SWAC fall…

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SWAC Football Media Day: Alabama A&M, Alcorn State favorites in SWAC preseason poll

SWAC Football Media Day: Alabama A&M, Alcorn State favorites in SWAC preseason poll

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2021 Preseason All-SWAC Football selections and Predicted Order of Finish on Tuesday during the league’s media day. The preseason all-conference teams, individual award winners, and predicted order of finish were voted on by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors. Alabama A&M’s Aqeel Glass was named SWAC…

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One major question for every school heading into SWAC football media day in Birmingham

One major question for every school heading into SWAC football media day in Birmingham

After a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic, the SWAC’s football media day return to Birmingham, Ala. on Tuesday. Each of the conference’s 12 teams will be on display with two players each fielding all kinds of questions from the assembled press. Here’s a look at the one significant question for each team: Alabama A&M Attendees: Connell Maynor, Aqeel Glass, and Abdul-Fatai Ibrahim Can the…

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Arkansas-Pine Bluff still flying under-the-radar after SWAC championship run

Arkansas-Pine Bluff still flying under-the-radar after SWAC championship run

Arkansas Pine-Bluff was one play away from winning what would have been an unlikely SWAC championship for the program this past spring. But their 2021 resurgence during a shortened season in which the Golden Lions knocked off both Southern and Grambling en route to a West Division championship and a trip to the conference title game hasn’t translated into leaguewide respect heading into the…

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UAPB names Solomon Bozeman new head basketball coach

UAPB names Solomon Bozeman new head basketball coach

PINE BLUFF, ARK. – On Friday, June 11, Athletics Director Chris Robinson announced Solomon Bozeman as the next Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Bozeman, who spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University, helped the Golden Eagles improve their conference wins each year and make a Sweet 16 appearance in the 2021…

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UAPB removes interim tag from Chris Robinson, named new athletics director

UAPB removes interim tag from Chris Robinson, named new athletics director

Pine Bluff, AR.— UAPB Chancellor Laurence Alexander announced Chris Robinson as the school’s new athletics director on Friday. Robinson has served as interim director of the athletics department since February. “Since moving to the Athletics Department at UAPB, AD Robinson has had success working to improve all facets of the operation for the benefit of our student-athletes,” Chancellor Alexander…

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A pair of HBCU football players named to FCS All-America first-team; two SWAC stars earn second-team honors

A pair of HBCU football players named to FCS All-America first-team; two SWAC stars earn second-team honors

Four HBCU football players were named to Stats Perform FCS All-America Team Monday. Southern defensive lineman and Buck Buchanan Award finalist Jordan Lewis was selected to the first team. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound junior from Ocala, Fla. led the Jaguars with 10.5 sacks, 15 tackles for loss and won SWAC Defensive Player of the Week twice during Southern’s six-game regular season. Tennessee State…

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HBCU Sports Live: Alabama A&M wins SWAC football championship

HBCU Sports Live: Alabama A&M wins SWAC football championship

Kenn Rashad and Kendrick Marshall of HBCU Sports talk about Alabama A&M’s winning the SWAC football championship game over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 40-33. With the SWAC expanding 12 teams in the fall, Rashad and Marshall post predictions on how each team will finish at the end of the season.  

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