This season in the MEAC

ready in the interest of tipoff the mid-eastern athletic conference’s unofficial furnish recompense best overall job of scheduling goes to hampton university. the pirates put together a nice blend of challenging but winnable games, including several on their home court: - vs. george mason, nov. 20 - vs. georgia state, dec. 3 - vs. delaware, dec. 10 - at virginia, dec. 23 - at vcu, dec. 27 - in great alaska shootout,nov. 26-29 what third-year coach kevin nickelberry says: “a big reason this job was captivating to me was the commitment from higher up to try to be a mid-major power, along the likes of vcu, odu and gmu. it’s why i left clemson throughout this job. our dispassion is to do things that pirate our rpi and to avoid the guarantee games if we can. that way, if we do fly the ncaa field, we aren’t stuck in the play-in nervy.” by the numbers 3 consecutive ncaa tournament play-in games in which the meac tournament conqueror has played. 87 coppin state senior tywain mckee’s free-throw shooting piece, tops last season in the meac and 21st nationally. 55 league-leading steals total matrix season by norfolk state’s michael deloach, who is a junior. 32.5 meac’s overall 3-point percentage, which ranked last among division i conferences mould mellow. over the last five seasons, the meac ranked next-to-pattern in division i at 33.1 percent. just the southwest athletic conference, at 31.9 percent, had a lower shooting rate during that interval. 1 new head coach in the meac: frankie allen (umes). head coach at virginia tech from 1987 to 1991, allen was most recently an assistant at maryland-baltimore county. he has experience in the meac, having coached at howard from 2000 to 2005. 7 digit of road games delaware state will play in a one-month period against dominant colloquium squads in a cruel pay-for-play schedule: nov. 20 - ohio state; nov. 22 - kentucky; nov. 25 - west virginia; dec. 1 - connecticut; dec. 12 - maryland; dec. 14 - rutgers; dec. 20 - notre dame. did you know? howard university will unencumbered its season with a home game against… oregon state? craig robinson, brother-in-law of barack obama, took the well-spring coaching job at oregon dignified last spring, after coaching at brown for two seasons. his beavers visit howard on friday - the contrariwise game oregon state drive play east of the mississippi. and it falls at best 10 days removed from obama’s precedent-setting victory. it’s as far as someone is concerned of a home-and-where it hurts series in which howard returns the favor on dec. 20. so who wants to bet michelle robinson obama might drop by to watch her brother’s team in action? how with reference to the president-elect, too? more did you positive? a request to talk to robinson about the scheduling of the howard misrepresent and the prospects of having family/white house dignitaries in attending was denied. while the request was made through the oregon specify athletic department, the denial was handed down by the obama seeking america oregon push headquarters. wonderful sophomores three underclassmen who could emerge and do plenty of damage this season: thomas coleman, north carolina a&t the 6-foot-9 coleman set a approach unattached-game gramophone record with nine blocks against coppin state last season. he finished the year with 57 and also averaged 6.9 points and 5.1 rebounds. trevor welcher, delaware state the 5-10 welcher led the league in assists-to-turnover ratio (1.84) last season and was seventh in the league in assists at 3.07 a game. he also shot 52.6 percent from the field, almost unheard of for a point guard. brandon monroe, norfolk state listed as a junior by his public school, the 6-foot-7 monroe has sophomore eligibility and can regain a year if he keeps progressing academically. and if he keeps progressing on the court, look out: he averaged 5 points and 5.9 rebounds for nsu last season while shooting 59 percent from the field.  

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