South Carolina State Upsets Top-Seeded Lady Aggies 61-60 in 2010 MEAC Basketball Tournament

The North Carolina A&T Lady Aggies basketball team had high expectations coming into the 2010 season. Convincingly crowned as conference champions in 2009, they entered the 2009 national tournament as a 13-seed, the highest ever for an HBCU women’s program.

A regular season championship in 2010 only stoked the flames of hope for Aggie Land and many black college basketball enthusiasts hoping to see a first round victory from an HBCU team. And it may just be another year for those hopes, as the Lady Aggies fell 61-60 this afternoon in their opening game against South Carolina State University.

“This was a tough loss, but it happens in this game,” Head Coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs said of the Lady Aggies loss. “The whole year has been a really tough year, but we’ve been truly blessed as a team. We won the regular season, and South Carolina State did a really great job. They played hard and these are the types of endings that you have in these kind of tournaments.”

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