MES is an historical black college playing in the MEAC and located in Princess Anne, Maryland. They are division 1 and went 9-20 last year. So far this season they lost at Vanderbilt 102-69, lost at Penn 85-84 ( they beat Penn last year), and won a home game 96-77 over Penn State Schuvlkill.
Their new coach this year is Cleo Hill, JR. He was the head coach at Winston Salem State the last 6 years with a .640 winning percentage there. Playing a killer non league schedule that percentage will be extremely difficult to match. Non league they have 4 home games and 13 road games. Here are some of the away games…Vanderbilt, Penn, Miami (0), Old Dominion, Murray State, Illinois, Arkansas, LittleRock, UConn, and Maryland.
Likely starters
6-5 JR Keytron Shaw 24ppg 5rpg 3apg
6-8 240 lb JR Christopher Flippin 16ppg 8rpg
6-4 FR Kyrrell Shaw 10ppg
6-6 JR Cardell Bailey 9ppg
6-1 JR Jose Cuelva 9ppg 3apg
While this is a lower level D1 league, they have good athletes and can score a lot of points. We had better be more ready to battle than we were on Saturday.
Defensive rotations are a bit slow. Offense looks solid - limited turnovers and getting good looks each trip. Missed too many layups. That’s really the difference between this and a blowout.
I cant quite figure out this half. I dont remember us making a lot of turnovers. Seemed like we made most of our open shots. Rebounded ok. Defense at times was impressive. But we are only up 4 on a team we were favored to beat by 17