Delaware State

Morgan State (4-3, 3-1 MEAC) vs. Delaware State (2-5, 0-4 MEAC) Time: 1 p.m. Where: Alumni Stadium Radio: 88.9 FM Series: Morgan leads series 30-23 What's at stake: Morgan State, which is tied for first place in the MEAC, will face the struggling Hornets on the road as both teams are coming off bye weeks. Before the break, the Bears had won two straight, including a dominant 52-3 victory at North Carolina Central on Oct. 29. Meanwhile, the Hornets have plummeted in the standings.

Women's college basketball Terps ' Hawkins, Thomas are All-ACC Maryland senior Tianna Hawkins and junior All-American Alyssa Thomas were voted to both the Blue Ribbon Panel All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team and the head coaches' All-ACC first team, announced Monday by the conference. Thomas led the league in rebounding throughout the season with 10.3 per game, and Hawkins finished just behind her with 9.4. Thomas also finished second in assists with 5.3 per contest.

DELAWARE STATE (1-5) @ MORGAN STATE (3-3) Time: 1 p.m. Radio: 88.9 FM Series: Morgan State leads 29-23. What's at stake: The Bears and Hornets meet for the 53rd time in a series that dates to 1945. Both teams are coming off respective victories over North Carolina A&T in their last games, beginning with Morgan's 27-14 win over the Aggies two weeks ago and the Hornets' 31-26 victory last Saturday. The Bears' offense is ranked last in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with an output of only 186.2 yards per game.

Welcome back to Morning Shootaround, a regular feature this season the day after Maryland basketball games. While we can't bring you into the Terps' locker room after games - reporters haven't been allowed in there since the last couple of years under Gary Williams - we will recap what was said in the press conference afterward by Maryland coach Mark Turgeon and his players. We will give some of our own insight into what transpired on the court during the previous day's game and what the Terps will be working on at practice looking ahead to their next game.

After dropping both games of last weekend's 2K Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden, the Maryland men's basketball team chalked up its trip to New York as a learning experience. The Terps vowed to fix their poor free-throw shooting, stay out of foul trouble and find a secondary option to lessen the burden on leading scorer Jordan Williams. In Tuesday's nonconference matchup with Delaware State, the Terps made good on all three promises, disposing of the Hornets, 72-54, before an announced 12,178 at Comcast Center.

College basketball Towson women defeat Delaware State, 69-61 Host Towson (5-5) led for most of the game and didn't let Delaware State (2-8) get any closer than five in the closing six minutes of play to win, 69-61, Friday night. Tanisha McTiller and Michelle Peebles scored 22 and 20 points, respectively, for the Tigers. Towson trailed by five at the half before retaking the lead for good, 48-47, on a layup by McTiller with 12:26 left. More women's games: Shanice Maynard scored a career-high 14 points and host Coppin State (4-7)

Morgan State quarterback Delonte Williams had already thrown three interceptions, two of which resulted in Delaware State touchdowns, when he calmly walked into the huddle with just over three minutes left in the game. Williams said that even though the Bears were down by three, they'd be just fine. The redshirt freshman then directed an 85-yard drive, capped by his 34-yard touchdown pass to Tyrone Hendrix with 20 seconds left. Sheldon Jacques added another touchdown on a 2-yard fumble return as time ran out to give Morgan State a 34-24 victory in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game Saturday before an announced 14,312 at Hughes Stadium.

Morgan State suffered through atrocious foul shooting (7-for-19), unforced turnovers (17 in all) and a 14-point second half Wednesday, but the Bears still managed to pull out a 42-39 victory over Delaware State at Hill Field House on Wednesday night. The victory, on Senior Night, moved Morgan (10-3) within a half-game of first-place Bethune-Cookman (11-3) in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with three games to play. It was the Bears' fifth straight win in February and the 100th of the Todd Bozeman era at Morgan.

Gary Kennedy is an athlete who responds to challenges.A walk-on at Morgan State, he not only made the team, but also has been a starter for most of three seasons.Another challenge awaits Kennedy and his teammates this week -- preparing for Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference rival Delaware State (4-2, 1-1). The Hornets will be the homecoming opposition when the Bears seek to halt a seven-game losing streak Saturday (2 p.m.) at Hughes Stadium."Really, Central State [a 63-13 winner in the first game]

DOVER, Del. -- Chris Nurse scored 16 points and had a career-high 17 rebounds, leading Delaware State to a 69-61 victory over Morgan State in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game last night.Delaware State (6-17, 3-10) trailed 28-27 at halftime, but took a 29-28 lead on a layup by Nurse. Delaware State pulled out to a 51-46 lead with 8:43 remaining in the second half after a layup by Steve Little and a basket and a free throw by Andre Griffin.Morgan State (4-19, 4-9) regained the lead at 54-53 with 4:04 left on a reverse layup by Terrance Wright.

Despite some tentative performances in recent weeks by Maryland's freshmen, second-year coach Mark Turgeon said Friday that he had not lost faith in his first full recruiting class. On Saturday, Turgeon's confidence seemed justified. After a slow start against Delaware State at Comcast Center, the Terps were led out of their early afternoon slumber by freshman Charles Mitchell and the rest of a group ranked among the top 15 coming out of high school. Mitchell, who had totaled just six points in his past three games, scored 10 by halftime and finished with career-highs of 19 points and 14 rebounds in leading Maryland to an easy 79-50 victory before an announced crowd of 12,389.

Ten down, two to go. A non-conference schedule that Maryland coach Mark Turgeon has said in hindsight was admittedly too soft nears its conclusion as the Terps inch closer to beginning their Atlantic Coast Conference season in another week. With 10 straight wins since opening the 2012-13 season with a three-point loss to then No. 3 Kentucky, Maryland (10-1) plays its third Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opponent when it hosts Delaware State (5-7) Saturday at Comcast Center at 12:30 p.m. Coming off an eight-day break that followed one of their more competitive games - a 76-69 win over Stony Brook - the Terps will try to improve on some of their inconsistencies before opening their ACC schedule Jan. 5 at home against Virginia Tech.

College basketball Towson women defeat Delaware State, 69-61 Host Towson (5-5) led for most of the game and didn't let Delaware State (2-8) get any closer than five in the closing six minutes of play to win, 69-61, Friday night. Tanisha McTiller and Michelle Peebles scored 22 and 20 points, respectively, for the Tigers. Towson trailed by five at the half before retaking the lead for good, 48-47, on a layup by McTiller with 12:26 left. More women's games: Shanice Maynard scored a career-high 14 points and host Coppin State (4-7)

Ian Chiles scored on a jump hook with 2.2 seconds left in overtime to give Morgan State (2-4) an 81-80 victory over Virginia Military Institute (4-4) on Saturday after a court-length pass from Thair Heath.   Anthony Hubbard scored 14 and Shaquille Duncan nine points for Morgan State. The game was tied 16 times. Florida Gulf Coast 65, Loyola 50: Sherwood Brown led the Eagles (5-3) with 14 points as they defeated the visiting Greyhounds (7-2). Four Loyola players scored in double figures: Jordan Latham (17 points)

Kelly Robinson scored the game-winning layup with 29 seconds left in overtime, lifting host LIU-Brooklyn (2-3) to a 65-63 victory over Towson (4-2) on Saturday. Tanisha McTiller led the Tigers with a career-high 24 points and seven rebounds, and Camille Peebles added a career-high 17 points and nine rebounds. Towson's Markell Smith had a career-high seven rebounds. Cornell 77, Morgan State 73: Clare Fitzpatrick scored a season-high 20 points as the host Big Red (5-3) secured a win over the Bears (3-5)

In 2007, quarterback Nick Elko rewrote the state record book at Arundel High. On Thursday night, the Delaware State signal caller added another page to his superlatives. Playing before family and friends at Morgan State, Elko, now a redshirt senior, sliced through the Bears' defense with near surgical precision, completing 17 straight passes in the first half to set a school record and leading the Hornets to a 28-23 win in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game. "With the talent that kid has throwing the football, we were pretty sure they were going to try and throw it against us," Morgan coach Donald Hill-Eley said.

DOVER, Del. -- Jackie Campbell led Delaware State (6-10, 8-18) with 23 points and 14 rebounds as it topped Coppin State, 62-52, in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game yesterday.Towson State 78, Radford 60RADFORD, Va. -- Senior guard Megan Gebbian scored a career-high 24 and grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds to lead Towson State (16-10, 11-7) past four-time defending conference champion Radford (15-11, 12-6) in the Big South regular-season finale for both teams.

Fourteen years ago on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, Mich., an 8-year old boy learned to be a football player. In the blistering heat of summer, the boy climbed and descended the concrete steps of Eastern Michigan's Rynearson Stadium, past empty bleachers as sweat dripped down his face. After, he would run route after route on the field, sprinting and chasing his older brother. As the young running back worked, his father watched, giving instruction. For years, through high school, the boy, Travis Davidson, would run those steps and those routes, never fully grasping why his father had him do this.

NO. 5 MARYLAND @GEORGE MASON Sunday, 2p.m. Tianna and Tierra Hawkins had been teammates for most of their lives. Except for the one summer when they were on separate Amateur Athletic Union teams, the fraternal twins from Clinton played together through their years at Riverdale Baptist High. In college, however, the sisters went their separate ways. Tianna ended up at Maryland, while Tierra went to Delaware State. Both have flourished. Tianna averages a doubledouble for the fifth-ranked Terrapins, and Tierra leads the Lady Hornets in scoring and rebounding.