A "Did You know" for the SWAC Historians on the board


PV-PRIDE

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Did you know that the SWAC has 2 players in the Top 10 in NCAA basketball career scoring leaders.....?

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Men's college basketball career scoring leaders

Here are the all-time DI men's college basketball career scoring leaders.
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5. Alphonso Ford, Mississippi Valley State: 3,165 points (1989-90 to 1992-93)
The Delta Devils star was consistent in his four seasons, averaging 29.9, 32.7, 27.5 and 26.0 points in his four seasons. Ford became the first player in NCAA Division I history to average at least 25 points per game in four consecutive seasons.

8. Harry Kelly, Texas Southern: 3,066 points (1979-80 to 1982-83)
Kelly averaged almost 30 points per game in three different seasons (29.0 in 1979-80, 29.7 in 1981-82 and 28.8 in 1982-83).
"Machine Gun" Kelly was a two-time Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
 



Al Ford was pure scorer....No one could defend him. I watched him from about 7th grade throughout his career. He was at the rival high school. ( Leflore vs. Amanda Elzy back in the day were standing room only games at the Greenwood Civic Center). Leflore had a squad back then as well...

And Strib was able to keep most of those kids right there at Valley. Look at his rosters from about 89'-94'....he probably had at least 6 or 7 players each year from Greenwood and Itta Bena…….And the rest were going to be from the Jackson area.

AL was also a pretty good baseball player.... I played against him throughout high school in baseball. I don't remember AL ever trying football, although his brother was quarterback for the football team. His brother (Fred) played basketball for Strib at Valley also..

Somehow Strib could keep all that talent in the Delta....
 
PV-PRIDE said:
Did you know that the SWAC has 2 players in the Top 10 in NCAA basketball career scoring leaders.....?

www.ncaa.com

Men's college basketball career scoring leaders

Here are the all-time DI men's college basketball career scoring leaders.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com


5. Alphonso Ford, Mississippi Valley State: 3,165 points (1989-90 to 1992-93)
The Delta Devils star was consistent in his four seasons, averaging 29.9, 32.7, 27.5 and 26.0 points in his four seasons. Ford became the first player in NCAA Division I history to average at least 25 points per game in four consecutive seasons.

8. Harry Kelly, Texas Southern: 3,066 points (1979-80 to 1982-83)
Kelly averaged almost 30 points per game in three different seasons (29.0 in 1979-80, 29.7 in 1981-82 and 28.8 in 1982-83).
"Machine Gun" Kelly was a two-time Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
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Of course us Texas Southern fans knew that. "Machine Gun" attends all our home games; tailgates with us for home football games too.
 
PV-PRIDE said:
Did you know that the SWAC has 2 players in the Top 10 in NCAA basketball career scoring leaders.....?

www.ncaa.com

Men's college basketball career scoring leaders

Here are the all-time DI men's college basketball career scoring leaders.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com


5. Alphonso Ford, Mississippi Valley State: 3,165 points (1989-90 to 1992-93)
The Delta Devils star was consistent in his four seasons, averaging 29.9, 32.7, 27.5 and 26.0 points in his four seasons. Ford became the first player in NCAA Division I history to average at least 25 points per game in four consecutive seasons.

8. Harry Kelly, Texas Southern: 3,066 points (1979-80 to 1982-83)
Kelly averaged almost 30 points per game in three different seasons (29.0 in 1979-80, 29.7 in 1981-82 and 28.8 in 1982-83).
"Machine Gun" Kelly was a two-time Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
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Lindsey Hunter was a baller also. I'm surprised that he wasn't in the top ten.
 
PV-PRIDE said:
The SWAC has had a lot of basketball talent come through over the years....
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There was enough in Mississippi to spread the wealth across the sip SWAC schools, tsu and even pv got in on a few (Lloyd lamb) right @JR

Then AAU slowly started to chip away and the talent level wasn’t nowhere what it used to be.

The last good Mississippi class was Strib’s team in 2003-04 and Jackson had some bright spots when trey Johnson was there. After that the talent disappeared overnight
 



wahines said:
So how do we make HBCU's attractive to them again?
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Different era - the small towns aren’t producing the same type of talent and lack of success doesn’t help also. None of the Mississippi schools have maintained that high level on a consistent basis.

Valley and Alcorn has the most potential if they can win as you would be the main attraction due to location. You need some local guys who can win to spur interest

Jackson needs a star to put it in the basket to get casual fan back
 
NastyD said:
If you cut football then you wont have any dollars to roll to basketball lol. Football is the catalyst that fund most, if not all, of our athletic departments.
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Football is subsidized by the university. You think they start the year off paying for expenses on credit?
 
2kool said:
Football is subsidized by the university. You think they start the year off paying for expenses on credit?
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Football is your biggest revenue maker in your athletic department period. You don't cut the head off the snake
 
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