HBCU DIGEST: HBCU community has to get much better at embracing smaller institutions
Paul Quinn College’s men’s basketball team won the United States Collegiate Athletic Association championship last night with a 80-69 win over Bryant & Stratton Buffalo. The title game win, earned on the campus of Virginia State University, helped the Tigers finish the season 26-2 and with their first USCAA trophy since 1995.
It wasn’t a game that millions of people around the world watched or that drew in millions in sponsorship dollars. But Paul Quinn is the best team in a collection of teams from all over the country. For any historically Black institution, that’s saying a lot and it is a narrative that the college has been carrying for a long time.
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