Pirates Rally to Defeat Coppin State in Overtime 

BALTIMORE, Md. – For the second straight game, the Hampton University men’s basketball team came back from a second-half deficit to force overtime. This time, the Pirates only needed one OT session before defeating Coppin State 74-71 on Saturday at the Physical Education Complex. 

The Pirates improved to 4-3 overall and went to 1-0 in MEAC play. 

Reginald Johnson, Jr. led three Pirates in double figures with 22 points, going 8-for-18 from the floor, while Quinton Chievous added 21 points and 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season, going 8-for-12 from the floor  

Kalin Fisher added a season-high 13 points, and Dionte Adams grabbed a career-high tying 11 rebounds.

A Chievous layup with 2:08 left in the second half tied the game at 64-64, before Coppin State got a 3-point play from Keith Shivers to take a 67-64 lead with 1:12 left.

Johnson hit a layup with 59 seconds left, before Adams hit a free throw with 14 seconds left to force overtime.

Coppin State scored the first two baskets of the overtime session – taking a 71-67 lead with 3:28 left in the frame after Treadwell sank a jumper. But those were the Eagles’ only field goals of the overtime, and Fisher gave the Pirates the lead after hitting two free throws and hitting a trey with 2:26 left.

That bucket put the Pirates up 72-71, before Chievous and Fisher each hit a free throw down the stretch.

Josh Treadwell led Coppin State with 22 points.

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NCCU Holds Court against Maryland Eastern Shore

DURHAM, N.C. –Senior guard Dajuan Graf took his turn to lead North Carolina Central University as he put in a career-high 21 points to lift the Eagles to a 70-59 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday, Dec. 5.

NCCU (2-4, 1-0 MEAC) jumped in front early with an 8-1 lead and led wire-to-wire.

NCCU expanded that lead into a 15-2 run after scoring the first two buckets of the second half capped by a double-clutch jam in transition by Jamal Ferguson.  That dunk put NCCU up by its largest margin of 17 points at 40-23.

UMES tried to steadily work its way back into the contest, but they were kept at bay by NCCU and Graf, who scored 15 of his 21 in the second 20 minutes of action.  The Hawks did put together a 9-2 run late in the game to trim the deficit to seven at 60-53, but that’s the closest that they would get. 

Sparking that run for UMES was Devin Martin who scored seven of the nine points, and put in 19 of his game-high 25 points during the second frame.

With the win, NCCU extends its home win streak to 38 games, and have now won 32 regular-season conference games in a row; including 17 consecutive at McDougald-McLendon Arena.  The Eagles will put those streaks on the line as they host Howard on Monday, Dec. 7.

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