Tag: Tennessee State Basketball

Tennessee State Women’s hoops adds 5 transfers

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Courtesy of Stephen Featherston, Assistant Director of Communication, Tennessee State Athletics The Tennessee State women’s basketball program has added five transfers to its roster for the upcoming 2023-24 season, with four of them coming from NCAA Division I programs. Head coach Ty Evans revealed that Aaniya Webb, Diamond Cannon, Caitlin Anderson, Sanaa’ St. Andre, and Kameria Piggee will join the Lady Tigers for the upcoming season. Webb arrives from St. Bonaventure, Cannon from Tennessee Martin, Anderson from Indiana State, St. Andre from Missouri Kansas City, and Piggee from Mt. San Antonio College.…

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Jerry Nichols promoted to TSU Men’s Basketball Associate Head Coach

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Courtesy of Tennessee State Athletics:  Tennessee State head men’s basketball coach Brian “Penny” Collins has elevated Jerry Nichols to associate head coach for the upcoming 2023-24 season, as announced by Collins on Friday. Entering his sixth season on the TSU sidelines, Nichols has been a mainstay alongside Collins since his hiring in 2018. No stranger as a head coach, Nichols compiled a 200-59 record in nine season at the junior college level. Prior to working with Collins, the two battled as opposing coaches in Region 7 of the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association.…

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Tennessee State Basketball adds five transfers for the 2023-24 campaign

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Courtesy of Tennesseee State Athletics NASHVILLE — Tennessee State men’s basketball head coach Brian “Penny” Collins has announced the addition of five highly sought-after transfers to the 2023-24 roster. Joining the Tigers next season will be Kinyon Hodges from Eastern Illinois, Jason Jitoboh from Florida, Denim Dawson from Nebraska and E.J. Bellinger Jr. and Michael Shanks from Belmont. Jitoboh, Bellinger and Hodges will have one season of eligibility as graduate students while Dawson Shanks has multiple seasons remaining.  The addition of Hodges, Jitoboh, Dawson, Bellinger, and Shanks adds depth to the roster that lost…

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Former Tennessee State Coach and AD Teresa Lawrence Phillips named to Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame

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Courtesy of Tennessee State Athletics: NASHVILLE – Former Tennessee State Athletics Director and head women’s basketball coach Teresa Lawrence Phillips has been named a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2023. Phillips served Tennessee State University for 31 years as women’s basketball coach, administrator, and Director of Athletics. She arrived at TSU as the head women’s basketball coach in 1989. From 1989-2000 she led the Tigers to their first Ohio Valley Conference regular season and tournament championships, while also leading the Tigers to their first NCAA tournament…

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Tennesee State loses in OVC quarters to SEMO 91-83

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91 Winner Southeast Mo. St. 17-16,10-8 OVC 83 Tennessee St. 18-14,10-8 OVC Team 1 2 F Southeast Mo. St. 35  56  91 Tennessee St. 31  52  83 The Tennessee State men’s basketball team looked less like the team that recently won 7 of 8 Ohio Valley Conference game and more like the squad that laid an egg in the season finales against Souther Indiana , as they fell to SEMO, 91-83 in the quarterfinal of the OVC Tournament, TSU was hampered bu turnovers, the 9 they committed turned into 14 SEMO points, and…

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Tennessee State bounced in first round of OVC Tourney

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64 Tennessee St. 11-18,6-11 OVC 71  SIUE 9-21,7-11 OVC Team 1 2 3 4 F Tennessee St. 17  10  19  18  64 SIUE 26  15  15  15  71 It was one-and-done for the #7 Tennessee State Lady Tigers as they fell 73-64 to the # 6 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars in the opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. The Tigers found themselves in an uphill battle immediately, falling behind by 7 points, 10-3, at the 7:25 mark of the first quarter.SIUE’s Macy Silver got off to a hot start,…

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TSU’s Adams and Haynes-Overton earn Conference Honors

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Courtesy of Tennessee State University Athletics BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Tennessee State women’s basketball team had two players take home yearly awards as the Ohio Valley Conference announced its 2022-23 superlative award winners on Tuesday afternoon. Gia Adams was named to the All-OVC Second Team, while Erica Haynes-Overton earned All-OVC First Team honors. Haynes-Overton was also named to the All-OVC Newcomer Team. Adams, a sophomore from Houston, Texas, showed no signs of a sophomore slump this season after being named the OVC Freshman of the Year a season ago. The guard upped her scoring average by…

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Tennessee State men’s hoops begins OVC Tournament play Thursday

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Courtesy of Tennessee State Athletics OPENING TIP: Tennessee State is entering its 31st Ohio Valley Conference Tournament and the third time as the fourth seed on Thursday when it will face the winner of the first-round contest between 5th-seed SEMO and 8th-seed Lindenwood. TSU split with SEMO and swept Lindenwood who is making its first appearance in the eight-team, four-round, two-bracket extravaganza in Evansville, Indiana. WHERE TO WATCH & LISTEN: TSU expanded its partnership with Cromwell Media, naming 102.1 FM The Ville as the flagship TSU men’s basketball station. “The Voice of…

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Tennessee State women’s hoops loses regular season finale to Southern Illinois, sets sight on OVC Tourney

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Courtesy of Tennessee State Athletics 67  USI 61 TSU Team 1 2 3 4 F USI 21  16  10  20  67 TSU 12  18  14  17  61 NASHVILLE – Erica Haynes-Overton scored 20 points, but the Tennessee State women’s basketball team fell to the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles 67-61 at home Saturday. The Lady Tigers (11-17, 6-11) had two players score in double figures, led by Haynes-Overton, who had 20 points. Gia Adams tacked on 14 points and Sierra McCullough added eight points, 11 rebounds, four steals and two blocks. Lyric Cole pulled down five offensive rebounds to…

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Tennessee State defeats UT Martin 88-82, now in tie for second place in OVC

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88  TSU 82 UTM Team 1 2 F TSU 41  47  88 UTM 33  49  82 Tennessee State picked up another conference win, handing UT Martin only their second home defeat of season, 88-82 Thursday night. UT Martin got out early, jumping on TSU 14-6 but Tennessee State responded with a 10-0 run to tie the game at 14 apiece and took their first lead of the night at 16-14 on a putback dunk from Adong Makuoi.  Tennessee State would remain out front for the rest of the half, using a…

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