Chicago State men's basketball player
Jahsean Corbett is playing for the Virgin Islands in the FIBA AmeriCup 2022 in Brazil. The Virgin Islands are one of 12 teams vying for the title which starts today and goes through September 11. The Virgin Islands are in Group B with Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Argentina and open the tournament at 11:40 a.m. Saturday against Argentina.
Games are will be streamed live
HERE. More information on the tournament is available
HERE.
Corbett is a sophomore guard at Chicago State at started 30 of 32 games in which he played for the Cougars last season. He was the second-leading scorer on the team, averaging 12.4 points per game and had 21 double-digit scoring efforts, leading the team in scoring eight times. He also led the team in total rebounds with 206 and pulled down 78 offensive rebounds which ranks eighth all time in single-season offensive boards.
About Chicago State:
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioningm to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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