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Both programs are coming off poor years.</tt><tt style="font-family: Courier New;">
Both programs are under first-year head coaches. </tt><tt style="font-family: Courier New;">
And both programs are quickly turning their fortunes around.</tt>
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Grambling State and Alabama A&M combined for only 14 wins last season; Grambling was 6-38, AAMU was 8-27-1. The more disturbing stat was that the 2006 win totals were the climax of a period that saw the schools' number of victories decline steadily. </tt>
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Grambling went from 22 wins in 2003 to 11 in '04, 12 in '05 to last year's 6. Alabama A&M went from 15 in 2003 to 13, to 10 to last year's 8.</tt><tt style="font-family: Courier New;">
The numbers are looking decidedly better for the two Southwestern Athletic Conference schools so far in 2007.</tt>
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Grambling had exceeded its 2006 win total by the end of February, and thanks to a 10-9 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday, Grambling is 10-13 overall and 3-3 in the SWAC. Alabama A&M took two of three from Alabama State over the weekend to push its 2007 win total to eight to match last year.</tt>
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On Feb. 13, both teams cracked the BlackCollegeBaseball.com poll after being picked by the poll voters to finish last in their respective divisions. They've been in the poll ever since, with Grambling checking in at No. 8 and AAMU at 10 in this week's voting.</tt>
