Round 1: Wisconsin v. Jackson St. - Thu 11/30, 7:30 PM CT
Nov 26, 2023 21:57:20 GMT -5
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| Wisconsin vs. Jackson St. |
| Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 7:30 PM Central |
| UW Field House Madison, Wisconsin |
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| 26-3, 17-3 2nd Place - B1G | 17-12, 10-6 SWAC Champions | |
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Players to Watch
Wisconsin
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#13 - OH Sarah Franklin 6-4 R-JR | #14 - MB/RS Anna Smrek 6-9 JR | #10 - MB/RS Devyn Robinson 6-2 SR | #52 - MB Carter Booth 6-7 SO | #12 - OH Temi Thomas-Ailara 6-2 GR |
Jackson State
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#11 - OH Alexis Williams 5-8 SR | #1 - RS Hope Briggs 6-0 FR | #5 - RS Nyjha Marcelin 5-6 SR | #21 - MB Jordan Jones 5-11 | #15 - MB/RS Kyahana Robinson 6-1 GR |
History
This is the teams' first meeting.
Did you know…?
In addition to its athletics, Jackson State University has a renowned marching band, the Sonic Boom of the South, which is accompanied by a dance line known as the Parncing J-Settes. The band is one of the best in the nation, a leading example of "show style," the high-stepping, high-energy combination of military marching band tradition with funky syncopated rhythms and elements of jazz, R&B, pop, and hip-hop. The band plays at home football and basketball games, and has recently been traveling to away games with the football team - in fact, host schools often specify in their contract with the football team that the Sonic Boom of the South, in its full entirety, must accompany the football team and perform at halftime.
The JSU Tigers opened the 2016 football season at UNLV. Written into the contract was a stipulation that the Sonic Boom of the South would accompany the football team and perform at the half-time show.
Sports are not the only things that have a brutal preseason. Freshman Band Camp for the Boom runs from 4:45 AM until 11 PM for two weeks in the brutal Mississippi August heat. During camp, new band members learn to march in precise 22.5" lengths with the Boom's traditional military high step, where the knees are lifted to a 90-degree angle and toes pointed downward - different and more difficult from the "corps step" employed by most high school bands. To make it even more challenging, the Boom also marches with a sideways sway in the upper body, making all the helmet plumes move in unison, and sometimes the musicians have to play while executing vigorous dance moves.
At Freshman Band Camp, practice starts before dawn and ends shortly before midnight.
The band was first organized in the early 1940s and came into its own under director Harold J. Haughton, Sr. in the 1970s. Haughton acted as director until 1983; during his tenure he introduced the Motown hit "Get Ready" as the band's theme, converted the Majorettes to a dance line, and introduced the "Tiger Run-on" shuffle, 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.
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| Harold J. Houghton, Sr. | O'Neill Sanford |
In 2003 the marching band was in enshrined in the NCAA Hall of Champions, and a few years later, they were depicted in the video game "EA Sports NCAA Football 2005." They've appeared in half-time shows for the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Cincinnati Bengals, and Indianapolis Colts. They have performed on the NAACP Image Awards show, Motown's 30th anniversary television special, and most recently in the 2021 Presidential Inauguration Parade. Today, under the direction of O'Neill Sanford, the band boasts more than 200 members, many of them recruited from high school bands throughout the US and the Caribbean and lured to JSU with band scholarship money.
