NCCU AT BCU 2013 MBBALL
NCCU and B-CU renew their rivalry on Monday night in a huge early season league matchup

Men's Basketball Chris Hooks, Assistant Sports Information Director/Broadcast Media Coordinator

NCCU MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES AT BETHUNE-COOKMAN (JAN. 14, 2013)

Eagles look for fourth straight win in huge Monday night matchup


NCCU Sports Network Broadcast Link (Doubleheader airtime at 5:15 p.m.)

NCCU at Bethune-Cookman Game Notes


THE GAME
Sitting at 2-0 in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play, the maroon and gray of North Carolina Central University face the Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman University in what should be a hotly contested ballgame from Daytona Beach, Fla. The game features the league’s top two scorers BCU’s Adrien Coleman (17.9 points per game) and Jeremy Ingram (16.6 points per game) in a crucial early season conference matchup.

THE SERIES
NCCU and B-CU have met six previous times as the Eagles hold a 2-4 record against the Wildcats, with the maroon and gray winning two of the last three meetings. NCCU outlasted B-CU 81-79 in the last meeting inside Moore Gymnasium, but the Wildcats beat the Eagles in the quarterfinals of the MEAC Tournament 60-59 on March 8, 2012.

NCCU SPORTS NETWORK
Tune in to wall-to-wall coverage of Monday evening's doubleheader beginning at 5:15 p.m. with the Champps Pregame Show as play-by-play voice of the NCCU Sports Network Chris Hooks will call the action live from Moore Gymnasium.  Fans can interact with Hooks during the broadcast by sending a tweet to @NCCUAthletics or @ChrisHooks22 and by using the hashtag #NCCUMBB.  Also fans can send an e-mail to either NCCUSN@NCCU.edu or whooks@NCCU.edu.

BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY "WILDCATS"
The Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman enter play on Monday night with a 6-11 record overall, 1-1 in MEAC action. B-CU is led by second year head coach Gravelle Craig who has compiled a 24-28 record at the helm. In his first season, Craig became the first coach at B-CU since Raymond McDouogle in 1966-67 (19-10) to record a winning record in their first season as head coach as the Cats finished 18-17. This program has recorded four consecutive winning seasons, proving to be one of the top teams in the league during that span. He also led the Wildcats to the MEAC Tournament Championship game which was also another first for the program. B-CU is coming off a 72-60 win over North Carolina A&T, where the Aggies held the conference’s leading scorer Adrien Coleman (17.9 points per game) to 8 points holding the junior to just six shot attempts in 27 minutes. That’s where teammates Kevin Dukes and Malik Jackson stepped up hitting a combined 11 three-pointers to propel the Wildcats to the win at home. Dukes is second on the squad averaging 11.4 points a game which ranks him No. 21 in the league in that category, while he is sixth in the league in assists at 4.1 per game, fifth in steals at 1.9 per contest, and eighth in three-pointer percentage at 35.9 percent. Coleman also ranks third in the conference in rebounding ripping down 7.3 boards a game. Fellow forward Alex Smith is seventh in the conference in rebounding averaging 6.6 boards a contest, while perched atop the league in field goal percentage at 67.0 percent. As a team, B-CU sits right behind NCCU and FAMU at third in the conference in scoring offense at 68.9 points per game and is second in the MEAC averaging 13.8 assists per game. The Wildcats have sent out a different starting lineup in four of the last five games.

UP NEXT
The maroon and gray return home to end the month of January and begin a crucial three-game MEAC homestand against Howard University on Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.), Coppin State on Jan. 26 (4:00 p.m.), and Morgan State on Jan. 28 (7:30 p.m.). Following the week-long stay at home, the Eagles will hit the road for a Saturday, Feb. 2 showdown against Delaware State (4:00 p.m.) and will wrap-up the road trip on Monday night Feb. 4 at Maryland Eastern Shore at 7:30 to begin the month of February. 


 
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