BALTIMORE, MD — The CIAA Event reaches its midway level on Thursday with 4 quarterfinals matchups.
Claflin College women and men will each take the court docket on Thursday afternoon. The Claflin girls will make their match debut on Thursday. The no. 2 workforce within the CIAA South, it should tackle Shaw College tipping off at midday. Shaw (14-14) superior to the quarterfinals by knocking off Virginia Union on Tuesday within the first spherical. Claflin swept the common season sequence, beating Shaw 87-77 at dwelling and pulling out a 66-64 victory on the highway in Raleigh.
The Claflin males may even make their debut as they tackle Virginia State at 2 PM. The 2 groups cut up the common season matchup in opposition to one another, with Virginia State taking a 73-71 win over Claflin within the US Virgin Islands again in December in a non-conference matchup. The groups met once more at Virginia State, with Claflin developing with an 82-75 win on the highway.
The Virginia State girls may even make their match debut on Thursday, immediately after the VSU-Claflin males’s sport. The second-seeded Trojans will tackle Johnson C. Smith, the third seed from the CIAA South. Virginia State comes into the match with a formidable 22-4 report, together with a win over Johnson C. Smith in Charlotte. It was hard-fought, nonetheless, going into extra time with Virginia State finally taking a 73-69 win out at Brayboy Health club.
The ultimate matchup of the night time will see the debut of Virginia Union, the CIAA North co-champion and the no. 2 seed from the division. It’s set to tackle an upstart Bluefield State program that is available in with a lowly 9-21 report, however has made heads flip in its first CIAA Event since returning to the league after leaving within the mid-Nineteen Fifties. BSU beat Saint Augustine’s 60-58 on Day One of many match, then pulled off the upset of the 12 months because it knocked off defending CIAA Champion Winston-Salem State College 67-66 in extra time.
Virginia Union (13-17), the CIAA workforce with essentially the most match titles, will look to keep away from an identical destiny. The 2 CIAA North groups met twice within the common season, with Virginia Union profitable by 16 and 12 factors, respectively.
No. 1 seeds Fayetteville State and Lincoln each await the winners of Thursday’s video games within the semifinals on the lads’s aspect. The Fayetteville State girls and Elizabeth Metropolis State girls do the identical.
