Virginia State Trojans, the kings of the Ciaa, the 2025 CIAA championship wins the Mavifild state with 71-64 victories.
Trojans celebrate the first tournament championship since 2019.
Virginia State Guardian Jacob Cooper anchored the trojans with 16 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and two thefts.
Cooper, an average of 16.0 points, 6.7 ribounds, 4.3 assists and 2.0 teams were called the tournament MVP after 2,0 stolen.
Jared White ended with 11 points, five rebounds and two steals. Jayson Harris and Davian Coleman, including three blocs, including three blocks, and managed the glass by holding 12 rebounds.
Terrell was the best performer of Williams, 16 points, six rebounds, five assists and three steals. Larry Howell had 15 points and five rebounds, and Jordan Hinds had 12 points and seven rebounds.
Virginia St., 71-64 Bluefield State to win the CIA Tournament.
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The way to Virginia is going to a championship
The ciaa North Division champion of the province of Virginia has crowned after graduating with a total of 18-8 in the regular season.
In the quarterly final, the championship match, Bowie State, beating the Ciaa North opponent, 78-72.
In the semifinalTrojans won 66-57 and received a conference conference that defends Lincoln (PA).
Including the second season as an official member of the CIAA, Bluefield State, the second-class in the state of Virginia for the CIAA North Division Crown ended with a total note 17-10.
Great Blue Protective Jordan Hinds Name Ciaa player of the year After leading the conference scored by the conference, 20.6 points in each game.
Great Blue on Thursday, Johnson won 84-69 on Johnson C. Smith in the quarterfinals.
Then the CIAA South Section Champion, 71-65 winners, shouting the Fayetteville Steps, first hit a ticket to the CIAA Championship games.
How did Trojans seize CIAA
The province of Virginia pointed over the game boards and rubbed the deep ball deep.
The seven of the first 13 points of the team came from the opportunity to second chance, and the first three shots from this area came from three points.
However, the defense efforts of the Bluefield province closed the game by force five trojans in the first 10 minutes of the game.
This was the biggest run of the largest match of the game, taking the biggest leadership of the largest 21-14 in the first half in the first half. Trojans responded quickly by continuing 10-2 runs to get the lead back.
From there, Troyans ‘Trojans’ Sophomore Devian Coleman continued to point on the boards with the movement.
In the last minutes of the first half, four rebounds, including three attacks, the ribaund, three attacks on the eight points.
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Coleman, in this game, has prepared great performance and motivated his coaches.
“First and above all, I’m (I follow) and I think I’m doing a mistake, because the season has defensive mistakes,” Coleman said. “That’s why I try to make myself because I’m hard on myself. The coach (Lonnie’s shot) remains on me, and I just try to do my best.”
Although the Trojans are early success in the boards and paint, the Bluefield State Game found ways to be close. After a noise by Jordan Hinds, the team approached the first half between 36-35.
Bluefield State head coach Devin Hoehn believes that he walked away from the game plan belonging to the first deficiency of his team.
“After that, if you want them after them, you want this size after them and do it,” said coach Hoehn. “We didn’t have enough time to play in the last two days. If you try to play a half court with a Virginia situation, we have been one of the largest teams. We have played them a little. We played our games a little.”
One of the tires of the large blue led to the second half when they started to get shootings to fall from perimeter. This, in turn, opened a driving stripes to the basket, allowed to take the lead 6,19,619 and 60-55 lead.
With the challenges that began to get rid of the trojans, they blocked four of the shots in the remaining minutes and began to defend the paint.
In the meantime, the trojans hit two big three to give the hotel the hot hand and the allocations needed to get the victory.
Virginia State is currently aimed at the NCAA Division II basketball tournament, which will be the first appearance since 2019.
The head coach of the Trojans Lonnie shot about the fight for the team’s national championship and the need to work in preparation for the moment.
“We must return home to return home and take a day or so far, and we will return to the gym next week,” he said. “We just need to work on ourselves. We need to do the little things, and we have to communicate. Thus, we have to do what we played, and where we are playing.
NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Tournament Selection show, March 9, at 11.00 at NCAA.com in NCAA.com will go to the air in NCAA.com.
