Males’s Basketball<\/span> 11\/24\/2025 12:00:00 PM<\/time> MSU Athletics Communications<\/span>
Recreation 7
Opponent:<\/b> Drexel Dragons (3-4)
Date: <\/b>Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Website:<\/b> Hill Subject Home, Baltimore, Md.
Recreation Time: <\/b>6 p.m.
Sequence Report:<\/b> Drexel leads 1-0
Radio:<\/b> HSRN.com
Reside Stats:<\/b> www.morganstatebears.com
Coaches: <\/b>MSU –Kevin Broadus<\/a><\/dfn> (83-99, seventh yr) \u2022 Drexel – Zack Spiker (134-148, tenth yr)
Web sites: <\/b>www.morganstatebears.com | www.drexeldragons.com<\/span>
SETTING THE STAGE<\/b>
\u2022 The Morgan State Bears (1\u20135) return to Hill Subject Home for non-conference motion in opposition to the Drexel Dragons Tuesday, Nov. 25. Tip-off is ready for six p.m. (EST).<\/span>
\u2022 Morgan State and Drexel met on Dec. 11, 1999.\u00a0 The Dragons posted a 72-59 victory at Hill Subject Home.<\/span>
\u2022 Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b> has emerged as a serious activate the bench to open the 2025\u201326 season. The senior guard led the Bears with a game-high 20 factors, including 5 rebounds and 4 assists in 29 minutes at Georgetown on Nov. 11. He adopted that effort with one other 20-point outing in opposition to Central Penn at Hill Subject Home. He leads the Bears, averaging 13.0 factors on 39 p.c taking pictures from the sector and 35 p.c from past the arc.<\/span>
\u2022 Senior guard Alfred Worrell Jr.<\/a><\/dfn> <\/b>performed in 32 video games and averaged 6.5 factors and 1.6 rebounds as a junior at Southern Mississippi final season. He shot 38 p.c from the ground, 33 p.c from distance, and 87 p.c from the free throw line. He enters Tuesday’s matchup averaging 12.8 factors on 29 p.c taking pictures from the sector.<\/span>
\u2022 Graduate guard Elijah Davis<\/a><\/dfn> <\/b>transferred from Bowie State, the place he began in each sport (30) and averaged 10 factors, 3.3 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.9 steals, and 31.8 minutes. He additionally performed for Mississippi Valley State (2021-22), Walter State C.C. (2022-23), and Incarnate Phrase (2023-24). He is at present averaging 12.3 factors, 4.5 assists, and three.2 rebounds and is taking pictures 53 p.c from the ground.\u00a0<\/span>
\u2022 Graduate guard Walter Peggs Jr.<\/a><\/dfn> <\/b>was a BOXTOROW DII HBCU All-America First Crew choice as a standout at Spring Hill School. He turned this system’s main scorer within the Division-II period, with 1,137 profession factors. He additionally broke the crew’s two-year profession factors per sport file, averaging 21.3 factors per sport over two seasons.<\/span>
\u2022 Graduate middle Dallas James<\/a><\/dfn><\/b> spent 4 seasons at South Carolina State earlier than becoming a member of the Indiana Hoosiers in 2024-25.<\/span>
SCOUTING DREXEL<\/b><\/span>
\u2022 Zach Spiker <\/b>is now in his tenth season as the pinnacle coach of the Drexel Males’s Basketball program. Spiker and his workers have led the Dragons to 5 straight profitable seasons for the primary time because the 1996-97 season. Final season, the Dragons had been 18-15 general and narrowly missed defeating the highest seed within the Coastal Athletic Affiliation quarterfinals. Spiker has continued to rebuild the roster and maintain Drexel as a serious participant within the Coastal Athletic Affiliation regardless of the altering atmosphere in faculty athletics.<\/span>
\u2022 Shane Blakeney <\/b>was named CAA Preseason Honorable Point out. Blakeney completed the 2024-25 marketing campaign as Drexel’s sixth man, showing in all 33 video games for the blue and gold. The junior averaged 7.5 factors and three.6 rebounds per sport, together with taking pictures a 73 p.c mark from the charity stripe. The Rock Hill, S.C. native completed second on the crew with 19 blocked pictures, handed out 52 assists and got here away with 22 steals. The Dragons had been picked to complete tenth within the CAA Preseason Ballot.<\/span>
\u2022 Drexel has 5 new faces on the roster this season. Freshman Moses Hipps<\/b> transferred from Boise State, the place he sat out final season as a redshirt. He was ranked a three-star prospect by each ESPN and 274Sports, in addition to being a prime 250 recruit within the class of 2024. Senior Eli Beard<\/b> transferred from Mary Hardin-Baylor the place he began 26 video games and was named a First Crew All-American after ending second within the ASC with 22.3 factors per sport. Junior Martin de LaPorterie<\/b> transferred from Yavapai Neighborhood School, the place he began each sport final season whereas averaging 12.8 factors and 6.4 rebounds. Sophomore Dillon Tingler <\/b>joins the Dragons after spending final 12 months at Japanese Michigan. Freshman Ignacio Campoy Galvez <\/b>has received 9 championships. He’s a three-time Spanish Champion, four-time Madrid Champion, and two European Championships<\/span>
\u2022 The Dragons are led by junior guard\u00a0 Shane Blakeney<\/b>, who’s averaging 12.7 factors and 4.9 rebounds via seven video games. Sophomore guard Josh Reed<\/b> is contributing 11 factors and 4.0 rebounds, whereas junior guard Kevon Vanderhorst<\/b> provides 11 factors and three.6 rebounds.<\/span>
\u2022 The Monarchs are averaging 73.4 factors per sport whereas taking pictures 44 p.c from the sector and 29.5 p.c from past the arc.<\/span>
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE DRAGONS<\/b>
\u2022 Nov. 23, 2025 — The Drexel Dragons defeated the Previous Dominion Monarchs Sunday afternoon, 75-71, on the Daskalakis Athletic Heart. Kevon Vanderhorst <\/b>scored a career-high 16 factors. Josh Reed<\/b> led the crew with 18 factors off the bench, taking pictures 54% from the sector, and three assists. Shane Blakeney<\/b> scored 15 whereas knocking down 4 rebounds and blocking two Monarch pictures. Drexel outrebounded Previous Dominion 38-35 and shot a season excessive 76.2% from the free throw line.<\/span>
THE SERIES<\/b>
\u2022 Drexel leads the sequence 1-0 since 1999.<\/span>
UP NEXT<\/b>
The Bears will host Longwood on Saturday, December 6, at Hill Subject Home. Tip-off is ready for 4 p.m. EST.<\/span>
AT THE HELM<\/b>
\u2022\u00a0Kevin Broadus<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0is in\u00a0his seventh season on the helm of this system, having been named the boys’s head basketball coach in 2019.
\u2022 The Broadus-led Bears crew has compiled a number of important victories over non-conference competitors, elevating the caliber of wins for a program that goals to compete at a championship stage inside the Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention (MEAC). Broadus demonstrated exemplary management whereas efficiently overcoming quite a few challenges on the onset of his tenure at Morgan, together with navigating the rebuilding of a program underneath the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
\u2022 Throughout the 2024\u201325 season, the Bears completed with an general file of 14\u201318, highlighted by a balanced 7\u20137 mark in MEAC play. The efficiency mirrored that of the earlier season, when Morgan State went 11\u201320 general, whereas additionally posting a .500 file in convention competitors. In 2022\u201323, the Bears completed 15\u201315 general and seven\u20137 within the MEAC, following a 13\u201315 marketing campaign in 2021\u201322 that noticed them place fourth within the league standings and attain the MEAC Event semifinals. The 12 months prior, in 2021, Morgan superior all the way in which to the MEAC Event championship sport.
\u2022 Earlier than Morgan, Broadus labored on the College of Maryland, School Park, the place he was one of many nation’s greatest recruiters as the highest assistant on Mark Turgeon’s teaching workers. Broadus was influential within the profitable NCAA event run for the Terps.
\u2022 Persistently ranked within the prime 20 nationally for recruiting, Broadus was instrumental in signing a number of native Baltimore skills akin to DeJuan Summers, Brandon Herbert, LaFonta Johnson, and Henry Sims.<\/span>
WHO’S OUT<\/b>
Kameron Hobbs<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0(Stockbridge, Ga.\/Dutchtown HS),\u00a0Wynston Tabbs<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0(Suitland, Md.\/St. Mary’s Ryken Faculty HS),\u00a0Amahrie Simpkins<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0(Brooklyn, N.Y.), and\u00a0Will Thomas<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>(Baltimore, Md.\/Mervo HS) wrapped up their collegiate careers and graduated final spring.\u00a0
\u2022\u00a0Hobbs<\/b>, a BOXTOROW HBCU First Crew All-American, handed Jimmy Fields (139) to turn into No. 6 on Morgan State’s\u00a0all-time 3-point area targets leaderboard. He accomplished his profession with 150 3-pointers.<\/span>
WHO’S BACK<\/b>
The Bears return three starters from final 12 months’s crew, bringing again guard\u00a0Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>and ahead\u00a0Trent Edwards<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>. MSU additionally returns\u00a0Christian Oliver<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0<\/b>who was on the squad through the 2023-24 season.<\/span>
WHO’S IN<\/b>\u00a0
The Bears have added a number of newcomers to the 2025-26 roster: G\u00a0Elijah Davis<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>(Bowie State), G\u00a0Alfred Worrell Jr.<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>(Southern Mississippi), and G\u00a0Christian Meeks<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>(Waubonsee C.C.). Newcomers additionally embrace F\u00a0\u00a0Eugene Alvin<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0(Florida Southwestern) and F\u00a0Manok Lual<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>(Frostburg State), together with C\u00a0Dallas James<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, a switch from Indiana.<\/span>
RETURNING PRODUCTION NUMBERS<\/b>\u00a0
Morgan State returns 16.6 p.c of its scoring, 18.7 p.c of its rebounding, and 23.8 p.c of its minutes performed totals from final 12 months’s crew. The crew leaders in area aim proportion (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>– .350), three-point proportion (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, .379), free throw proportion (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn>.<\/b>, .747), rebounding (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0– 2.6 rpg), assists (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, 2.4), steals (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, 0.9), blocked pictures (Trent Edwards<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, 1.0), and minutes performed (Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, 26.7).\u00a0\u00a0Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(23) is the one returner who has began in not less than 5 (5) video games a 12 months in the past.<\/span>
HOME GROWN<\/b>
Morgan State has 5 (5) gamers from the DMV (D.C., Maryland & Metropolitan-D.C.) space. Senior guard\u00a0Rob Lawson<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0is from Capitol Heights and performed at Nationwide Christian Academy. Veteran guard\u00a0Elijah Davis<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0hails from Severn, Md., and performed at Incarnate Phrase. Redshirt senior ahead\u00a0Jayden Socka<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0<\/b>is from Silver Spring, Md., and attended Springbrook HS. Graduate pupil guard\u00a0Alfred Worrell Jr.<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0and freshman\u00a0David Bumpass<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>\u00a0are from Washington, D.C. Worrell went to Montgomery Blair HS, and Bumpass attended Friendship Tech Prep Academy.<\/span>
ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTION<\/b>
Graduate pupil\u00a0Walter Peggs Jr.<\/a><\/dfn><\/b>, a switch from Spring Hill School, was named to the preseason All-MEAC Third Crew.
\u2022 Peggs was a BOXTOROW Division II HBCU All-America First Crew choice and have become the primary participant in program historical past to earn two BOXTOROW HBCU All-America honors. He was additionally a SIAC First Crew All-Convention decide and was named to the NABC Honors Courtroom.
\u2022 At Spring Hill, Peggs turned this system’s Division II period profession scoring chief with 1,137 factors and set the two-year profession scoring common file at 21.3 factors per sport. He began all 26 video games final season, averaging a career-best 26.0 factors and 35.6 minutes per sport. Peggs totaled 676 factors to set this system’s Division II single-season scoring file, whereas including 92 rebounds. He additionally set Division II period data with 99 made three-pointers and 151 made free throws. Peggs shot profession highs of 48.2% (213-442) from the sector, 42.1% (99-235) from three-point vary, and 87.8% (151-172) from the free-throw line.<\/span>
TABBED TO FINISH FOURTH<\/b>
The Morgan State males’s basketball crew has been picked to complete fourth within the Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention’s preseason ballot, introduced by the convention in the present day.
\u2022 The 2025-26 Bears earned 73 whole factors within the voting. Norfolk State claimed 12 first-place votes and 118 factors whole because the defending MEAC champions. Howard (97 pts) was chosen second, adopted by South Carolina State in third place (90 pts). Delaware State (70 pts), North Carolina Central (70 pts), Maryland Japanese Shore (31 pts), and Coppin State (27 pts) rounded out the league’s predicted order of end.<\/span>

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Morgan State College, based in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified\u00a0high research (R2)<\/a>\u00a0establishment providing practically 140 tutorial packages resulting in levels from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland’s\u00a0Preeminent Public Urban Research University<\/a>, and the one college to have its whole campus\u00a0designated as a National Treasure<\/a>\u00a0by the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial pupil physique and seeks to make sure that the doorways of upper schooling are opened as large as doable to as many as doable. For extra details about Morgan State College, go to\u00a0www.morgan.edu<\/a>.
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