VSU Trojans heading to Virgin Islands for HBCU classic
Fred Jeter | 12/22/2022, 6 p.m.
Virginia State University’s basketball players may want to pack their swim fins with their sneakers for their next trip.
Coach Lonnie Blow’s Trojans (now 7-3) will ring in the new year in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Dec. 31-Jan. 2, in the University of Virgin Islands HBCU Classic.
The Virgin Islands are about 1,100 miles southeast of Miami in the Caribbean Sea.
VSU’s quarterfinal foe Dec. 31 at 10 a.m. will be Edward Waters University of Jacksonville, Fla.
On Jan. 1 the Trojans will meet the winner of the Fisk, Tenn., and Tusculum, Tenn., match.
The championship game will be Jan 2. The other four schools are Clinton College, S.C., Kentucky State, Livingstone, N.C., and West Virginia State.
VSU boasts one of the top talents in all HBCU hoops in 6-foot-5 senior Terence Hunter-Whitfield, a second-generation Trojan.
His father, Ricky Whitfield, wore the Orange and Blue from 1991 to 1995.
Out of Matoaca High in southern Chesterfield, just a few minutes from the VSU campus, Hunter-Whitfield transferred to his old neighborhood school following three seasons at Catawba, N.C.
Through 10 games, Hunter-Whitfield was averaging 17.6 points and 5.3 rebounds. He’s scored in double figures each game.
