Former Alcorn coach Davey Whitney dies at 85

Former Alcorn State basketball coach Davey Whitney has died. He was 85. No cause of death was given.

Whitney spent nearly three decades at Alcorn State over two stints from 1969 to 1989 and again from 1996 to 2003.

Whitney won 12 SWAC championships and led the Braves to a win over South Alabama in the first round of the 1980 NCAA tournament, which was the first tournament win for a historically black university.