Coard: Historic Cheyney women’s championship basketball team inducted into Hall of Fame

The renowned 1982 Pennsylvania State Champion “Lady Wolves” of Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University) remain one of the most important, most victorious, and most dominant women’s teams in collegiate basketball history, which is why- on April 27- they finally were inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame as “Trailblazers of the Game” during an emotionally powerful ceremony in Knoxville, Tenn.I say “finally” because it’s actually 42 years late for a team of their unparalleled caliber. And these five indisputable facts prove it:That Cheyney team is from the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to have won a women’s- or men’s- National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Basketball Conference/Regional Championship. And these “Lady Wolves” (as they were officially known) did it in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Tournament on Feb. 27, 1982 by crushing Slippery Rock State College 92-33 after just one day earlier having demolished Millersville State College 114-37.That Cheyney team is from the only HBCU to have advanced to a women’s- or men’s- NCAA Division I Final Four or National Championship Game.That Cheyney team is the only team at the NCAA Division I level to have had an all African-American women coaching staff.That Cheyney team...