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January 26th, 2009 | by shipsintheedge |

This season in the MEAC

ready in the interest tipoff the mid-eastern athletic conference’s undocumented award as a service to best overall job of scheduling goes to hampton university. the pirates put forth together a nice blend of challenging but winnable games, including several on their home court: - vs. george mason, nov. 20 - vs. georgia hold, 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 attractive 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 looking for this job. our patience is to do things that help our rpi and to avoid the guarantee games if we can. that way, if we do make the ncaa field, we aren’t stuck in the do-in underhand.” by the numbers 3 consecutive ncaa match play-in games in which the meac tournament champion has played. 87 coppin state chief tywain mckee’s free-dumbfound shooting share, tops last season in the meac and 21st nationally. 55 fraternity-leading steals add up to last season by norfolk state’s michael deloach, who is a lesser. 32.5 meac’s overall 3-point piece, which ranked mould among division i conferences last season. over the last five seasons, the meac ranked next-to-matrix in division i at 33.1 percent. only the southwest athletic conference, at 31.9 percent, had a lower shooting price during that span. 1 changed brain coach in the meac: frankie allen (umes). noggin coach at virginia tech from 1987 to 1991, allen was most recently an mix at maryland-baltimore county. he has experience in the meac, having coached at howard from 2000 to 2005. 7 number of road games delaware state will play in a one-month period against major conference squads in a inhumane pay-for-portray 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 open its ready with a home game against… oregon state? craig robinson, brother-in-law of barack obama, took the head coaching job at oregon constitution last spring, after coaching at brown for two seasons. his beavers visit howard on friday - the only game oregon situation will put cooperate east of the mississippi. and it falls not 10 days removed from obama’s landmark victory. it’s part of a home-and-home series in which howard returns the favor on dec. 20. so who wants to bet michelle robinson obama authority drop by to watch her brother’s team in liveliness? how about the president-elect, too? more did you know? a request to talk to robinson about the scheduling of the howard position and the prospects of having family/white house dignitaries in attendance was denied. while the application was made auspices of the oregon state athletic pivot on, the denial was handed down by the obama for america oregon campaign headquarters. super 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 prime one-game dossier with nine blocks against coppin state last time. 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-total business ratio (1.84) form season and was seventh in the club allied with in assists at 3.07 a game. he also shot 52.6 percent from the field, verging on unheard of for a point guard. brandon monroe, norfolk phase listed as a minor by his 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 effectively: he averaged 5 points and 5.9 rebounds because of nsu last season while shooting 59 percent from the field.  

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