CAU defeats Morehouse 70-62, wins seventh straight game to start 2024

Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College have competed on the basketball courts of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) for decades. Saturday afternoon at L.S. Epps Gymnasium was the first meeting of the season. The teams will meet again Saturday, Feb. 17 at Forbes Arena on the campus of Morehouse College. Photo by Menra Mapfumo/The Atlanta Voice Webster’s dictionary describes a rival as “one of two or more striving to reach or obtain something that only one can possess.” No words are truer when describing Atlanta’s best in-town sports rivalry. The Clark Atlanta Panthers and Morehouse College Maroon Tigers have played one another in basketball for decades and on Saturday, Jan. 27 the latest chapter in a rivalry took place at L.S. Epps Gymnasium on the campus of Clark Atlanta University. Clark Atlanta would win their seventh consecutive game, 70-62. The second chapter of this rivalry will take place at Forbes Arena on the campus of Morehouse College in Saturday, Feb. 17. Following the game, Panthers head coach Alfred Jordan said, “Our guys knew the implications of this game in the standings, and accepted the challenge. Hats off to [Morehouse] coach [Douglas] Whitlter and his team for making the game a...