Texas Southern University
Historically black university in Houston
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| 2024 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team competed in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT), losing in the First Round to Tarleton with a score of 71-82. |
| 2023 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team makes their most recent appearance in the NCAA tournament. |
| 2022 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament First Four, defeating Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 76-67, but subsequently losing to Kansas 56-83 |
| 2021 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament First Four, defeating Mount St. Mary's 60-52, but subsequently losing to Michigan 66-82 |
| June 6 2020 | Thomas Freeman, the legendary debate team founder and coach, passed away. His New York Times obituary highlighted his significant contributions to developing future leaders through the debate program. |
| February 2020 | Board of trustees fires and then pays out president Austin Lane's contract after initially alleging misconduct, later agreeing there was no wrongdoing. |
| 2019 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team participated in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT), achieving a notable performance with wins against New Orleans (95-89 in overtime), UT–Rio Grande Valley (94-85), and Louisiana–Monroe (108-102 in triple overtime). They advanced to the Semifinals before losing a close game 86-87 in overtime. |
| September 12 2019 | Democratic presidential debate held in TSU's Health and Physical Education Arena. |
| June 2019 | Texas Southern University launched the region's first Shared Autonomous Shuttle through a partnership with METRO and the Houston-Galveston Area Council. The shuttle is capable of carrying up to 15 passengers and operates on a pre-programmed route with advanced sensor and collision avoidance technology. |
| 2018 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament First Four, defeating North Carolina Central 64-46, but subsequently losing to Xavier 83-102 |
| 2018 | Texas Southern Tigers participated in NCAA Tournament as #16 seed, winning against Xavier 64-46 in the First Four, but subsequently losing to North Carolina Central 83-102 in the First Round. |
| 2018 | Texas Southern University baseball team continued their streak as back-to-back conference champions. |
| June 5 2018 | Mike Davis leaves Texas Southern to become head coach at Detroit Mercy, with Johnny Jones taking over as the new head coach of the Texas Southern Tigers basketball team. |
| January 22 2018 | Texas Southern University established the Center for Justice Research (CJR) in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, with funding from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries. The center aims to develop innovative solutions to address challenges in the criminal justice system. |
| 2017 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament as #16 seed, losing to #1 North Carolina 64-103 in First Round |
| 2017 | Texas Southern University's Lady Tigers softball team wins their third SWAC conference championship. |
| 2017 | Texas Southern University baseball team became back-to-back conference champions. |
| 2017 | Thomas Freeman retired after leading the university's debate team for over 60 years, having trained several notable civil rights leaders including Barbara Jordan and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 2016 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team participated in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), losing in the First Round to Valparaiso with a score of 73-84. |
| 2016 | Texas Southern University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) pharmacy graduates achieved a 90% first-attempt pass rate on the NAPLEX, which was above the national average of 85%, ranking third highest in Texas and highest among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). |
| 2015 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament as #15 seed, losing to #2 Arizona 72-93 in First Round |
| 2015 | Texas Southern University's Lady Tigers softball team wins their second consecutive SWAC conference championship. |
| 2015 | Texas Southern University baseball team won the SWAC baseball tournament. |
| February 2015 | Texas Southern University hosted a basketball game against Prairie View A&M with an attendance exceeding 7,500 spectators, highlighting the intense rivalry between the two teams. |
| 2014 | Texas Southern Tigers compete in NCAA Tournament First Four, losing to Cal Poly 69-81 |
| 2014 | Texas Southern University's Lady Tigers softball team wins their first SWAC conference championship. |
| 2014 | The National Council on Teacher Quality ranked Texas Southern University's College of Education 56th in the nation for best secondary education programs and awarded the college a 'top-ranked' distinction. |
| 2014 | Texas Southern University unveiled the Leonard H.O. Spearman Technology building, a $31 million, 108,000-square-foot, four-story structure. The building houses 35 labs and is home to a Tier 1 University Transportation Center, the Center for Transportation Training and Research, and the National Science Foundation Center for Research on Complex Networks. |
| December 20 2014 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team achieved a significant upset by defeating the nationally ranked Michigan State Spartans 71-64 in overtime in East Lansing, Michigan. This victory made them the first HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) team to beat a team that would go on to reach the Final Four in the same season. |
| 2011 | Texas Southern Tigers basketball team participated in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), losing in the First Round to Colorado with a score of 74-88. |
| March 4 2010 | A historical marker commemorating the 1960 sit-in is designated by the Texas Historical Commission, with TSU journalism professor Serbino Sandifer-Walker playing a key role in its establishment. |
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