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33-1080: Jackson State University's athletic teams participate in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) which is a part of the NCAA Division I . Football participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Jackson State University's colors are navy blue and white . The nickname of the men's teams is the Tiger ; the nickname of the women's teams is the Lady Tigers. For men's teams, Jackson State University sponsors Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track, and Tennis. For women's teams, Jackson State University sponsors Basketball, Softball, Track, Tennis, Volleyball, Soccer, and Bowling. The Tigers have appeared in five NCAA tournaments : 1978, 1991, 1997, 2000, & 2007. As of 2015,

66-506: A dance team known as the Prancing J-Settes. In 1974, “Get Ready,” an old Motown favorite was selected as the band’s theme song. Also, during the mid-1970s, the “Tiger Run-On” was perfected. The “Tiger Run-On” is a fast, eye-catching shuffle step that blends an adagio step with an up-tempo shuffle (200 steps per minute), then back to adagio—a “Sonic Boom” trademark that brings fans to their feet during halftime performances. In 2003

99-595: A new league, the SWAC. Paul Quinn became the first of the original members to withdraw from the league in 1929. When Langston University of Oklahoma was admitted into the conference two years later, it began the migration of state-supported institutions into the SWAC. Southern University entered the ranks in 1934, followed by Arkansas AM&N (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff ) in 1936 and Texas Southern University in 1954. Rapid growth in enrollment of

132-468: A postseason championship game to decide its overall champion, the SWAC determined its champions by winning-percentage against conference opponents in regular season play. In 1933 Langston appeared to win the title outright with a 4–0 conference record after the regular season, while Wiley finished 4–1, and Prairie View A&M finished 3–1. Langston was invited to the Prairie View Bowl, which

165-454: Is a list of the last 10 SWAC baseball champions; for the full history, see the list of Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball champions . In recent decades, the conference tournament has determined the overall champions; for specifics concerning the tournament in particular, see the Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball tournament . Marching bands have a rich tradition being a centerpiece of school spirit and pride for each institution in

198-681: Is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States . It participates in the NCAA 's Division I for most sports; in football , it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly referred to as Division I-AA. The SWAC is considered the premier HBCU conference and ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of alumni affiliated with professional sports teams, particularly in football. On

231-676: Is offered in the sports of basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, indoor track, outdoor track & field, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. The SWAC currently has 12 full members, all but one are public schools: The SWAC had six former full members, all but one were private schools: Alcorn State moved to the West Division with the additions of both Bethune–Cookman and Florida A&M in 2021. Full members Full members (non-football) The SWAC sponsors championship competitions in eight men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports: Prior to splitting into divisions and using

264-773: The Higher Learning Commission . The Langston athletic teams are called the Lions. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Sooner Athletic Conference since the 2018–19 academic year. The Lions previously competed as a member of the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) from 1998–99 to 2017–18. They were also a member of

297-581: The Howard University Law School , and American consul-general to Haiti . Poet Melvin B. Tolson taught at Langston from 1947 until 1964. Tolson was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the film The Great Debaters . In August 2021, former university President Kent J. Smith Jr announced the university would use COVID-19 relief money to forgive the debt of students enrolled between spring 2020 and summer 2021, forgiving $ 4.65 million in student debt. Langston University commemorated

330-440: The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) from 1931–32 to 1956–57, which is currently an NCAA Division I FCS athletic conference. Langston competes in nine intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include basketball, football and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cheer, softball, track & field and volleyball. Langston's marching band is known as the "Langston University Marching Pride". It

363-684: The Turkey Day Classic and Grambling and Southern in the Bayou Classic , play their last games of the regular season on Thanksgiving weekend , preventing the SWAC Championship from being decided until the first weekend of December, long after the tournament is underway. Current championship competition offered by the SWAC includes competition for men in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, indoor track, outdoor track & field and tennis. Women's competition

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396-542: The 2021 season with the additions of both Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M, the football schedule is as follows: The 1977–78 season was the SWAC's first as an NCAA Division I basketball conference. The semi-final and championship SWAC Basketball Tournament games are held at the Bill Harris Arena in Birmingham , Alabama . As of the 2017 tournaments, they feature an eight-team three-day layout with

429-775: The 2021–22 academic year; which both would compete in the SWAC East, while Alcorn State would be moving to the SWAC West. The SWAC is one of three FCS conferences – the others being the Ivy League and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – whose conference champion does not participate in the FCS playoffs , opting instead to play in the Celebration Bowl against the champion of

462-688: The JSU athletic teams is the university's marching band and dance line. They are nicknamed the Sonic Boom of the South and Prancing J-Settes . The band was first organized in the early 1940s. As early as the mid-1920s, the University had a well-organized orchestra. The group was given the nickname, “The Sonic Boom of the South” by band members in 1971. In 1971, the majorettes abandoned their batons and became

495-474: The MEAC. However, SWAC teams can still be invited via an at-large invitation, as was the case in 2021 when SWAC member Florida A&M University was invited over SWAC conference football champion Jackson State, who was obligated via contract to play in the 2021 Celebration Bowl. The SWAC instead splits its schools into two divisions, and plays a conference championship game. Three of the SWAC's teams, Alabama State in

528-562: The Tigers ranks 4th in the SWAC for number of NCAA appearances. All home games are held at the Williams Assembly Center . JSU plays their home games at Braddy Field , constructed in 2006. The men's and women's golf teams have dominated the SWAC championships. The men have won 21 championships (1989–2006, 2008–09, 2011), include 18 consecutive, and the women have won nine (1996–97, 2001, 2005–09, 2012). Often accompanying

561-853: The United States. The main campus in Langston is a rural setting 10 miles (16 km) east of Guthrie . The university also serves an urban mission with centers in Tulsa (at the same campus as the OSU-Tulsa facility) and Oklahoma City . The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund . The school was founded in 1897 and was known as the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University . From 1898 to 1916 its president

594-404: The admittance of Alcorn A&M (now Alcorn State University ) that same year. Wiley left in 1968, the same year Mississippi Valley State College entered. Arkansas AM&N exited in 1970 and Alabama State University entered in 1982. Arkansas–Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas AM&N) rejoined the SWAC on July 1, 1997, regaining full-member status one year later. Alabama A&M University became

627-547: The championship game. Texas Southern vacated its 2010 division championship due to violations of NCAA rules. Note: an asterisk denotes the division's top-seeded co-champion and representative in the SWAC Championship Game; a double-asterisk denotes that the division's co-champion was ineligible for the SWAC Championship Game due to a violation of SWAC rules that were in effect from 2011 to 2014 concerning Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores. Starting with

660-562: The conference's tenth member when it became a full member in September 1999 after a one-year period as an affiliate SWAC member. Most of the former SWAC members that have left the conference are currently a part of the Red River Athletic Conference of the NAIA . On 3 September 2020, the SWAC had announced that there would be a division realignment with the additions of Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University beginning with

693-485: The conference. Furthermore, the competitiveness, prestige, pageantry, and showmanship of SWAC marching bands significantly add to the unique identity and culture of the conference. Langston University Langston University ( LU ) is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma . It is the only historically black college in the state and the westernmost four-year public HBCU in

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726-555: The game will officially be played at the first place team's home. Since 2015, the winner of the SWAC plays the winner of the MEAC conference in an overall HBCU championship bowl game called the Celebration Bowl in Mercedes-Benz Stadium . The MEAC gave up its automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs for this game. Texas Southern vacated its 2010 championship due to violations of NCAA rules. The 2020–21 football season

759-876: The gridiron, the conference has been the biggest draw on the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level of the NCAA, leading the nation in average home attendance every year except one since FCS has been in existence. In 1994, the SWAC fell just 40,000 fans short of becoming the first non- Football Bowl Subdivision conference to attract one million fans to its home games. In 1920, athletic officials from six Texas HBCUs — C. H. Fuller of Bishop College , Red Randolph and C. H. Patterson of Paul Quinn College , E. G. Evans, H. J. Evans and H. J. Starns of Prairie View A&M , D. C. Fuller of Texas College and G. Whitte Jordan of Wiley University — met in Houston to discuss common interests. At this meeting, they agreed to form

792-532: The marching band was in enshrined in the NCAA Hall of Champions. Also, the marching band was filmed by Electronic Art Sports (EA Sports) for inclusion in the 2005 version of the video game "EA Sports NCAA Football 2005". The band performs at most football games and most basketball home games. Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference ( SWAC ) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama , which

825-824: The opening of a new allied health facility on its Tulsa Campus on March 30, 2023. The facility was dedicated as the Jack Henderson Allied Health Facility on August 2, 2024. The 17,000 square-foot building is home of the Langston University School of Nursing and Health Professions. President Kent J. Smith Jr announced his retirement as the university's 16th president effective at the end of the Spring 2023 semester. The Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical Colleges Board of Regents unanimously appointed Ruth Ray Jackson as interim president beginning July 6, 2023. In April 2024, she

858-462: The postseason game is incorporated into the regular season conference standings. Prairie View vacated its 1941 championship. No championship was awarded in 1943 due to World War II. Grambling vacated its 1975 championship due to a violation of SWAC rules for scheduling opponents. Games from 1999 to 2012 were played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama . The conference moved the game in 2013 to NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas . Starting in 2019,

891-513: The quarterfinal rounds hosted on campus sites. This changes the previous 10-team, five-day tournament format. The higher seeded teams will host a combined eight games leaving two days for travel and practice rounds. The tournament concludes with the semi-finals and championship rounds inside Birmingham's Bill Harris Arena. Winners of the tournaments earn automatic bids to their respective NCAA Division I Tournaments. The championship games are nationally televised live annually on an ESPN network. This

924-461: The standard four-year period of study in 2025. The university offers the Edwin P. McCabe Honors Program for highly motivated undergraduate students with exceptional academic records. The university was accredited with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) program in 2005. It is the university's only doctoral program and one of two DPT programs in the state. Langston University is accredited by

957-524: The state-supported schools made it difficult for the church-supported schools to finance their athletics programs and one by one they fell victim to the growing prowess of the state-supported colleges. Huston–Tillotson (formerly Samuel Huston) withdrew from the conference in 1954, Bishop in 1956, and Langston in 1957—one year before the admittance of two more state-supported schools: Grambling College and Jackson State College . The enter-exit cycle continued in 1962 when Texas College withdrew, followed by

990-558: Was Inman E. Page . Langston University was created as a result of the second Morrill Act in 1890. The law required states with land-grant colleges (such as Oklahoma State University , then known as Oklahoma A&M) to either admit African Americans or provide an alternative school for them to attend as a condition of receiving federal funds. The university was renamed as Langston University in 1941 in honor of John Mercer Langston (1829–1897), civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress from Virginia , founder of

1023-564: Was appointed the institution's 17th president. Six schools house the degree programs of Langston University: Sherman Lewis School of Agriculture and Applied Sciences; School of Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Education and Behavioral Sciences; School of Nursing and Health Professions; and the School of Physical Therapy. A total of 30 undergraduate and six graduate degree programs are offered at LU. According to US News and World Report , Langston had an 18% graduation rate within

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1056-537: Was played during Spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Since splitting into western and eastern divisions and using a postseason championship game to decide its overall champion, the SWAC determines its division champions by winning-percentage against conference opponents in regular season play. For the 1999 season only, inter-divisional conference games did not count in the conference standings. Each division's outright champion or top-seeded co-champion advances to

1089-526: Was won by Prairie View. The Panthers subsequently declared themselves SWAC champions even though their claim was based on a postseason game. The SWAC seems to acknowledge both schools' claims to the title in the conference's football media guide, although some other sources including Michael Hurd's Black College Football, 1892–1992: One Hundred Years of History, Education, and Pride (1993) also list Wiley as an additional co-champion, apparently since all three schools had 4–1 records against conference opponents if

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