{"id":13539,"date":"2011-02-21T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:50:59","slug":"meac-matchup-maryland-eastern-shore-hawks-at-morgan-state-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/meac-matchup-maryland-eastern-shore-hawks-at-morgan-state-bears-13539\/","title":{"rendered":"MEAC Matchup: Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks at Morgan State Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks AT Morgan State Bears
\nFeb 21, 2011 at 9 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Morgan State -13
\nCurrent Line: Morgan State -14
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 142
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 140.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Mor St -1200 \/ Md E +800
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Mor St -1525 \/ Md E +925<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Morgan State is a big favorite over the lowly Hawks of Maryland Eastern Shore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together Mid Eastern Atlantic Conference opponents Maryland Eastern Shore and Morgan State.\u00a0 Maryland-Eastern Shore is a destitute 6-20 with a 3-10 conference record, which ranks them 2nd to last in the MEAC.\u00a0 Morgan State (13-10) has a conference record of 8-3, good for 2nd in the MEAC.<\/p>\n

Morgan State, despite having a winning record, has a -1.3 point differential, scoring 68.3 a game and giving up 69.6.\u00a0 Maryland Eastern Shore has a -11.3 differential, scoring 68.0 and giving up 79.3.\u00a0 Their atrocious defense will have to improve to have any shot at covering tonight’s spread.\u00a0 The combinative average of the teams’ offensive output is 136.3, under the 142 opening total, but it’s hard to have a basis for comparison between two teams that are usually outmatched.<\/p>\n

Maryland Eastern Shore has lost 8 of their last 10 games.\u00a0 They have a 13 game road losing streak and haven’t won on the road since November 27th against the Navy.\u00a0 They’ve only won 3 games in 2011 so far out of 15 games, and have lost their last three games by an average of 15.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Morgan State has won 8 of their last 11 games and are 9-1 at home this year.\u00a0 They have won 3 straight and have won by an average of 6.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks are led by 6’6″ junior guard Hillary Haley.\u00a0 Haley is far and away the best scorer and player on the Hawks, averaging 16.9 points per game, 5.7 rebounds per game, and shooting 33.8% from three (45 of 133).\u00a0 He has scored in double figures in 21 of the Hawks 26 games and in the 5 games which he did not score over ten points the Hawks are 0-5, so if Morgan State can keep Haley from getting a lot of easy looks, this one should be a blowout.<\/p>\n

Morgan State is led by the trio of Dewayne Jackson, Kevin Thompson, and Aric Brooks.\u00a0 The three combine to score 38.5 points per game, 56% of Morgan State’s offensive output.\u00a0 Jackson, a 6’8″ sophomore forward, leads the way in scoring with 14.9 points per game.\u00a0 He also grabs 4.3 boards per game and gathers 1.5 steals per night.\u00a0 His field goal percentage is a low 40.6% due to a poor shot selection.\u00a0 He shoots 26% from three, yet has already attempted 141, far too many for someone of his shooting prowess.\u00a0 Morgan State is not a good three point shooting team, with the team shooting less than 30% from distance.\u00a0 If Maryland-Eastern Shore can keep Morgan State’s bigs from getting involved, and force Morgan State to shoot a lot of jumpers, they could find a way to cover tonight’s spread.\u00a0 Morgan State could theoretically shoot themselves in the foot by simply taking what the defense gives them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks AT Morgan State Bears Feb 21, 2011 at 9 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Morgan State -13 Current Line: Morgan State -14 Opening Total:\u00a0 142 Current Total:\u00a0 140.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Mor St -1200 \/ Md E +800 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Mor St -1525 \/ Md E +925 Tonight’s game brings together Mid Eastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[4525,4526],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-maryland-eastern-shore-hawks","tag-morgan-state-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}