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MEAC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES | WEEK 6 WEEK 6 1/2-5 2020-21 MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE A GOLDEN PAST, A GLORIOUS FUTURE STANDINGS Northern Division Team MEAC Pct. PF PA Total Pct. PF PA HM RD NEU Last 10 Streak Morgan State 0-0 .000 0 0 3-2 .600 74.4 72.0 1-2 2-0 0-0 3-2 Won 1 Norfolk State 0-0 .000 0 0 4-3 .571 67.0 68.6 1-2 2-1 1-0 4-3 Won 1 Howard 0-0 .000 0 0 1-4 .200 72.6 84.8 1-1 0-0 0-3 1-4 Won 1 Coppin State 0-0 .000 0 0 1-8 .111 63.6 80.1 1-1 0-7 0-0 1-8 Lost 4 *Delaware State 0-0 .000 0 0 0-5 .000 63.0 91.8 0-1 0-4 0-0 0-5 Lost 5 * - Ineligible for MEAC Championship & Postseason Southern Division Team MEAC Pct. PF PA Total Pct. PF PA HM RD NEU Last 10 Streak North Carolina Central 0-0 .000 0 0 1-3 .250 72.5 81.5 0-0 0-3 1-0 1-3 Lost 2 North Carolina A&T State 0-0 .000 0 0 3-9 .250 69.8 79.3 1-3 1-5 1-1 3-7 Lost 2 Florida A&M 0-0 .000 0 0 1-5 .167 65.2 77.7 0-0 1-5 0-0 1-5 Lost 1 South Carolina State 0-0 .000 0 0 0-10 .000 55.4 82.4 0-2 0-8 0-0 0-10 Lost 10 * - Bethune-Cookman and Maryland Eastern Shore have opted-out of competition for the 2020-21 season GAMES THIS WEEK CONFERENCE NOTES Saturday, January 2 Florida A&M at South Carolina 1 p.m. North Carolina A&T at SC State* 2 p.m. THIS WEEK IN THE MEAC South Carolina State will welcome North Carolina A&T State to Sunday, January 3 Orangeburg, S.C. in its first back-to-back series of this season on North Carolina A&T at SC State* 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Florida A&M will face the Gamecocks of Howard at Norfolk State* 4:30 p.m. South Carolina, while Howard will visit Norfolk State on Sunday and Morgan State at James Madison 6 p.m. Monday. Morgan State will travel to Harrisonburg, Va. to take on James Madison on Sunday and Delaware State will take the less Monday, January 4 than two-hour trip over to Baltimore for a Monday-Tuesday meeting Howard at Norfolk State* 7 p.m. Delaware State at Coppin State* 8 p.m. against Coppin State. Monday’s contest between Howard and Norfolk State at Echols Hall will be the MEAC’s first ESPNU broadcast of the season and is scheduled to tip at 7 p.m. WEEKLY HONORS, PRESENTED BY COCA-COLA Jalen Hawkins of Norfolk State was named the MEAC Player of the Week after leading the Spartans in a 68-65 win over George Mason, scoring 14 points, including 12 in the second half as Norfolk State overcame a 14-point deficit to secure the victory. Hawkins added three rebounds and one steal and connected on 55.6 percent (5- GAMES LAST WEEK for-9) from the field. North Carolina A&T State’s Kameron Langley was named this Tuesday, December 22 week’s MEAC Defensive Player of the Week. Langley flirted with North Carolina A&T 65, UNCG 86 his third career triple-double in a loss to UNC Greensboro, scoring 12 points, grabbing eight rebounds and dishing out nine assists. He Wednesday, December 23 surpassed 700 career assists, becoming only the 82nd player in Delaware State 63, UNC Wilmington 87 Coppin State 65, Iona 85 NCAA history to do so. He also grabbed four steals in the contest Saturday, December 26 Coppin State 73, Towson 78 Norfolk State 68, George Mason 65 Wednesday, December 30 Manhattan 65, Delaware State 59 MEAC MEDIA CONTACT Maurice D. Williams Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations Email: [email protected] Phone: 757-951-2055 1 [ MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE | 2020-21 SEASON | MEACSPORTS.COM | @MEACSPORTS ] MEAC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES | WEEK 6 MEDIA INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEAC CONTACT INFO STAFF MEAC M BASKETBALL 2730 Ellsmere Ave. Commissioner: Dr. Dennis E. Thomas MEDIA CONTACTS Norfolk, Virginia 23513 Senior Associate Commissioner: Sonja O. Stills Main: (757) 951-2055 Assistant Commissioner for Championships: Raynoid Dedeaux Fax: (757) 951-2067 Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations: Maurice Williams Patricia Easley Director of Corporate Partnerships: BETHUNE-COOKMAN* Deborah R. Davis Business Manager: Dan Ryan Assistant Director of Media Relations: Jeff Cunningham [email protected] Assistant Director of Championships & Compliance: Wyatt Sutton (386) 481-2206 Media Relations/Research Consultant: Lonza Hardy, Jr. Administrative Assistant: Destinee Wright Coordinator of Football Officials: Andre Lowe COPPIN STATE Coordinator of Men’s Basketball Officials: Larry Rose Steven Kramer Coordinator of Women’s Basketball Officials: Taiqua Stewart [email protected] (410) 951-3729 DELAWARE STATE Dennis Jones [email protected] MEAC QUICK FACTS (302) 857-6068 The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) be- TEAM MEDIA gins its 50th year of intercollegiate competition COPPIN STATE FLORIDA A&M with the 2020-21 academic school year. Located Radio: WNST 1570 Curtis A. Ford in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of 11 out- Video: coppinstatesports.com [email protected] standing historically black institutions across the (850) 599-3736 Atlantic coastline: Bethune-Cookman University, DELAWARE STATE Coppin State University, Delaware State Univer- Radio: WDSU-TV HOWARD sity, Florida A&M University, Howard University, Video: DSUHornets.com Derek Bryant University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan FLORIDA A&M [email protected] State University, Norfolk State University, North Radio: WHBX-FM 96.1 JAMZ (202) 806-7184 Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Video: Rattlervision MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE* Central University and South Carolina State Uni- HOWARD versity. Ralan Wardlaw Radio: WHUR 96.3 [email protected] Video: WHUR.com The MEAC sponsors 15 Division I (FCS) sports (410) 621-2353 with automatic qualifying bids for NCAA post- MORGAN STATE season competition in baseball, bowling, men’s Radio: WEAA 88.9 FM MORGAN STATE and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s Video: morganstatebears.com Leonard Haynes IV cross country, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s NORFOLK STATE [email protected] and women’s track & field, softball, volleyball and Radio: WGH Star 1310 AM (443) 885-3831 men’s golf. Video: Spartan Showcase NORFOLK STATE NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE Mike Bello SOCIAL MEDIA Radio: WEAL 1510 AM [email protected] Fans and media members are invited to follow the Video: NCATAggies.com (757) 823-2628 latest Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference basketball NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL news through social media. The MEAC Twitter Radio: NCCUEaglePride.com NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE feed may be accessed @MEACSports and the Video: NCCUEaglePride.com Brian Holloway conference’s official Facebook page is available SOUTH CAROLINA STATE [email protected] @MEACSports. The MEAC’s Instagram handle is Radio: ESPN 1230 AM (336) 334-7141 @MEACSports. MEAC PRESS ROW NUMBERS NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL WEEKLY RELEASE & STATISTICS Jonathan Duren Bethune-Cookman (386) 481-2299 Media members may access PDF versions of the [email protected] Coppin State (410) 951-4269 complete weekly release, including conference (919) 530-6017 Delaware State (302) 730-5236 and team-by-team statistics, on www.MEAC- Florida A&M (850) 412-5963 sports.com. Regular updates of the weekly re- SOUTH CAROLINA STATE Howard (202) 806-7159 lease will be distributed via e-mail from the con- Kendrick Lewis Maryland Eastern Shore (410) 651-8903 ference office. To be included on the distribution [email protected] Morgan State (443) 885-4018 list, send an e-mail request to Maurice Williams at (803) 536-7060 Norfolk State (757) 823-8195 [email protected]. North Carolina A&T State (336) 334-7405 *Opted-out of the 2020-21 season North Carolina Central (919) 536-7241 ANNUAL AWARDS South Carolina State (803) 536-8653 The MEAC will name first, second and third MEAC MEDIA CONTACT all-conference teams, league player of the year, defensive player, rookie and coach of the year. Maurice D. Williams The awards will be announced in early March, Email: [email protected] 2 prior to the 2021 MEAC Basketball Tournament. Phone: 757-951-2055 [ MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE | 2020-21 SEASON | MEACSPORTS.COM | @MEACSPORTS ] MEAC MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES | WEEK 6 MEAC HONORS MEAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR MEAC COACHES OF THE YEAR MEAC REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONS Season Name School Season Name School Season Name 2019-20 Jibri Blount NCCU 2019-20 Will Jones NCAT 2019-20 North Carolina Central 2018-19 RJ Cole HOW 2018-19 Robert Jones NSU 2018-19 Norfolk State 2017-18 Brandon Tabb B-CU 2017-18 Jay Joyner NCAT 2017-18 Hampton 2016-17 Patrick Cole NCCU 2016-17 LeVelle Moton NCCU Bethune-Cookman 2015-16 James Daniel III HOW 2015-16 Murray Garvin SCSU Savannah State 2014-15 Kendall Gray DSU 2014-15 Bobby Collins MDES 2016-17 North Carolina Central 2013-14 Jeremy Ingram NCCU 2013-14 LeVelle Moton NCCU 2015-16 Hampton 2012-13 Pendarvis Williams NSU 2012-13 Anthony Evans NSU 2014-15 North Carolina Central 2011-12 Kyle O’Quinn NSU 2011-12 Horace Broadnax SSU 2013-14 North Carolina Central 2010-11 CJ Reed B-CU 2010-11 Clifford Reed B-CU 2012-13 Norfolk State 2009-10 Reggie Holmes MSU 2009-10 Todd Bozeman MSU 2011-12 Savannah State 2008-09 Tywain McKee CSU 2008-09 Todd Bozeman MSU 2010-11 Bethune-Cookman 2007-08 Jamar Smith MSU 2007-08 Todd Bozeman MSU 2009-10 Morgan State 2006-07 Jahsha Bluntt DSU 2006-07 Greg Jackson DSU 2008-09 Morgan State 2005-06 Jahsha Bluntt DSU 2005-06 Greg Jackson DSU 2007-08 Morgan State 2004-05 Chakowby Hicks NSU 2004-05 Bobby Collins HAM 2006-07 Delaware State 2003-04 Thurman Zimmerman SCSU 2003-04 Ron “Fang” Mitchell CSU 2005-06 Delaware State 2002-03 Ron Williamson HOW Alfred Beard MSU 2004-05 Delaware State 2001-02 Tommy Adams HAM 2002-03 Cy Alexander SCSU 2003-04 Coppin State 2000-01 Tarvis Williams HAM 2001-02 Steve Merfeld HAM South Carolina State 1999-2000 Damian Woolfork NSU 2000-01 Cy Alexander