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4 Black College Teams are ‘March Madness’ Players
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004
By: RON THOMAS, BlackAmericaWeb.com

"You’ve come a long way, baby," is the best way to congratulate all four teams from historically black colleges that will play in the NCAA basketball tournaments this week.

Look at the collective 6-36 early season record of Alabama State and Florida A&M in the men’s bracket and Hampton and Southern universities in the women’s bracket. It’s remarkable that any of them will be participating in the annual national frenzy called "March Madness."

Now all four need a miracle to stay alive in the tournaments because the selection committees gave each of them the last of 16 seeds in their region.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on March 18, 2004 - 8:03pm :: News
 
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as a graduate of an HBCU (nc a&tsu) i was actually quite haughty & maybe even pretentious when i saw famu & alabama st in the pools. then when famu actually beat lehigh i was berserk!!! i must admit i expected them to drop quickly. they weren't even in the so-called 1st round. they had the boys off to the side in a prelim round. for years i've been praying that the ncaa would change the rules that prevent the majority of hbcus from making it into the selection of 64. at least we're getting a smidgen closer. i enjoy ur site by the way, sorry to take up so much room lol.

Posted by  al (not verified) on March 19, 2004 - 11:59am.

You ain't taking up too much room.

(I might say something different if you didn't like the site…)

Posted by  P6 (not verified) on March 19, 2004 - 2:25pm.