School Name: | Savannah State University |
Location: | Savannah, Georgia |
Arena: | Tiger Arena |
Capacity: | 6,000 |
Conference: | SIAC |
Head coach: | Horace Broadnax |
Savannah State University is a four-year, state-supported, historically black university located in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah State holds the distinction as the oldest public historically black university in Georgia. Savannah State is also a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
The Tigers is the name used for all of the men's intercollegiate athletic teams that play for Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia. The female intercollegiate teams are known as the Lady Tigers.
Men's Basketball[]
Savannah State competes in NCAA Division II as an independent and plays home games in Tiger Arena on the university campus.
The school gained notoriety when they finished the 2004-2005 men's basketball season a winless 0-28, the first Division I team to do so since Prairie View A&M University in 1991-1992.
Horace Broadnax became the men's head basketball coach in 2005.