Norfolk StaTe 72, St. Mary's (MD) 51
Florida A&M 63, South Carolina State 58
Coppin State 94, Delaware State 74
Norfolk State 72, St. Mary’s (MD) 51
NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk State led wire to wire, and the Spartans men's basketball team finished out the regular season with a 72-51 win over St. Mary's College (Md.) on Sunday afternoon at Joseph Echols Hall.
Senior
Devante Carter made 8-of-12 from the floor for an 18-point performance, helping the Spartans shoot 51 percent from the floor. They forced St. Mary's into 20 turnovers to improve to 14-7 on the year.
NSU will next compete in the MEAC Tournament, which begins on March 11 at Norfolk Scope Arena. The program will learn its seeding in the tournament after the conclusion of the league's regular season this week.
Carter was one of three NSU players in double figures along with junior
Jalen Hawkins (11) and senior
Kyonze Chavis (10). Carter scored the first bucket of the game on NSU's second possession, and the Spartans never looked back.
He and Chavis combined to score nine straight points for the Spartans as they led by seven in the early going. Senior
Mustafa Lawrence hit his first of two 3-pointers to push the lead to eight, although they went nearly four minutes without a score. But the Spartans scored nine straight points for a 14-point lead, 28-14.
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Florida A&M 63, South Carolina State 58
Orangeburg, S.C. | Senior guard
MJ Randolph scored a game-high 20 points as Florida A&M defeated South Carolina State 63-58 victory over South Carolina State on Sunday afternoon at the SHM Memorial Center.
Randolph bounced back from a four-point, 1-for-10 shooting performance in Saturday's contest, with a 20-point, 7-of-12 effort in Sunday's victory. The Pensacola, Fla. native added six rebounds, two assists and two steals to his tally.
DJ Jones notched his third consecutive double-figure scoring game, contributing 11 points with eight rebounds, three assists and one block.
FAMU battled back from a four-point halftime deficit, opening the second period on a 17-6 run to build a 45-38 lead with 9:38 left to play.
SCSU responded with a run of their own, tying the game at 47 on a Tariq Simmons three-pointer.
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Coppin State 94, Delaware State 74
DOVER, Del. – Anthony Tarke scored 31 points on 11-of-11 shooting to lead Coppin State's men's basketball team to a 94-74 victory at Delaware State on Sunday night at Memorial Hall. The victory gives the Eagles at least a share of the MEAC Northern Division crown, its first regular season championship since the 2003-04 season.
A Mid-Season Watch List member for the Lou Henson Award, Tarke was dominant out of the gate as his 11-of-11 performance is a new school-record and is tied for the second-most field goals without a miss for any NCAA player this season. Tarke also dished out seven assists, one off his career high, and matched a season-high with three 3-pointers.
Tarke was one of four Eagles in double figures as
DeJuan Clayton recorded 15 points, going over the 1,500 career points total in the process.
Yuat Alok made 5-of-9 field goals and a pair of threes and finished with 14 points.
Nendah Tarke added 13 points and added a season-high nine rebounds and five steals.
Koby Thomas just missed double figures with nine points and Coppin's bench added 11 points with
Dwaine Jones, Jr., leading the way with four points.
Kyle Cardaci and
Kenan Sarvan both hit triples and
Domantas Sakickas also added a bucket.
Coppin got off to a fast start with a 9-2 run as
Anthony Tarke scored five of the team's points and added an assist on Alok's jumper to open the game. Following a jumper by DSU, Tarke answered with a dunk on the other end, and after a pair of free throws, hit his first three of the game to give Coppin a 16-4 lead.
CSU's lead never got below double figures the rest of the game as it took a 48-24 lead into the half. Tarke had 17 points at the half and his five assists in the opening 20 minutes accounted for 13 more Eagles points.
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