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Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks at North Carolina Central Eagles

· MEAC MEN'S TOURNAMENT - SEMIFINAL
Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks
14-20, 5-14 Away
<span class="badge bg-danger" style="font-size: 1.2em; margin: 5px 0;">Final</span>
49 - 77
North Carolina Central Eagles
24-8, 11-2 Home

NC Central beat UMES, advances to MEAC Tournament finals

Dajuan Graf had 14 points, Del'vin Dickerson scored 11 and Pablo Rivas 10 for NCCU (24-8), which will face No. 2 seed Norfolk State or 11th-seed Howard in Saturday's championship game.

Cole had four points, three assists and two steals in the first six minutes as the Eagles took a 14-2 lead. Eastern Shore (14-20) pulled within two on a Tyler Jones' putback of his own miss with 7:11 left in the half, but NCCU scored 17 of the next 19 points to take a 38-21 lead into the break. The Hawks, who had their three-game win streak snapped, never threatened in the second half.

Bakari Copeland was the only Eastern Shore player in double figures with 15 points. The Hawks shot 16.7 percent (4 of 24) from 3-point range and 30 percent overall. They won at least two games in a MEAC Tournament for the first time since 1974.

NCCU won all three matchups this season with Eastern Shore by an average of 20 points per game.

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Statistics

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17-57 FG 28-63
30 Field Goal % 44
4-24 3PT 5-17
17 Three Point % 29
11-15 FT 16-24
73 Free Throw % 67
32 Rebounds 48
8 Offensive Rebounds 14
24 Defensive Rebounds 34
5 Assists 14
3 Steals 9
2 Blocks 2
15 Turnovers 7
0 Team Turnovers 0
15 Total Turnovers 7
0 Technical Fouls 0
0 Total Technical Fouls 0
0 Flagrant Fouls 0
0 Points Off Turnovers 0
0 Fast Break Points 0
0 Points in Paint 0
18 Fouls 15
0 Lead Changes 0
0 Percent Led 0

Game Information

Venue: Norfolk Scope Arena

Location: Norfolk, VA
Attendance: 13,331 | Capacity:

2025-26 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Standings

TEAM CONF GB OVER
Howard 11-3 - 24-11
Morgan State 10-4 1 14-16
Norfolk State 8-6 3 15-17
North Carolina Central 8-6 3 14-18
South Carolina State 7-7 4 10-22
Maryland Eastern Shore 5-9 6 9-23
Coppin State 5-9 6 7-24
Delaware State 2-12 9 8-23
Full Standings