The Highlanders (12-10, 9-2 Big South Conference) built a 23-10 lead before Winthrop outscored Radford 15-8 in the final 9 minutes of the first half. Radford led 31-25 at halftime.

The Eagles (6-15, 5-6) tied the game at 49-all with 6:14 left in the game on a bucket by Andre Jones, but couldn't take over the lead.

Winthrop shot just 29.9 percent from the field (23 of 77), including going 1 of 20 from 3-point range (5 percent).

Chris McEachin paced the Highlanders with 19 points and Joey Lynch-Flohr added 16. Amir Johnson tallied eight assists for Radford.

In January 1992, Steele sat at the Bradenton, Fla., home of Tommie Frazier, playing spades with prep prospect who would become one of the NCAA’s most revered option quarterbacks in history.

Frazier’s mother, in particular, loved spades. Steele, a Nebraska assistant, was winning handedly when the time arrived for an assistant coach among Frazier’s other suitors — Notre Dame, Syracuse and, ironically, Clemson — showed up for his scheduled appointment.

“His mom said, ‘I’m not letting you get out of where without whipping you,” Steele said. “She said, ‘You make sure as soon as they leave, you come back.’

“I actually sat down the street so I could see the house. They were in there about an hour and a half, then they left. I pulled back up in the driveway, and we played spades about three more hours. You felt like you had a pretty good chance.’”

This photograph shows men laying trolley-car tracks in Anderson in 1915. One of the white men is Eberle Roscoe Horton, who left this collection to the library.

Credit: Eberle Roscoe Horton, Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia

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Editor’s Note: Every day in February, The State will feature a historic photograph showing different aspects of black life in South Carolina. The photographs are from the South Caroliniana Library’s collections, with assistance from visual materials archivist Beth Bilderback.