Barber-Scotia College "Sabers"
(0-9 overall, 0-3 Road)
vs.
North Carolina Central University "Eagles"
(4-1 overall, 0-0 MEAC, 2-0 Home)
Tuesday, November 26, 2013- 7:00 p.m. (EST)
McDougald-McLendon Gym - Durham, N.C.
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THE GAME
North Carolina Central University enters the week riding a surprising four-game winning streak to many as the maroon and gray look to finish the pre-Thanksgiving day schedule on a high note. The Eagles are 38-13 at home during head coach LeVelle Moton's tenure as NCCU welcomes in-state foe Barber-Scotia College to the friendly confines of McDougald-McLendon Gymnasium.
THE SERIES
This will be the fourth meeting between NCCU and Barber-Scotia with the Eagles owning a 3-0 series lead over the Sabers. The last encounter between these two teams took place on this exact date (Nov. 26) in the 2011-12 season with the maroon and gray cruising to the 104-55 win. The first meeting between these two took place during the 1986-87 season.
NCCU SPORTS NETWORK
Join play-by-play voice Chris Hooks along with color analyst Joe Simmons for the Denny's of Durham Pregame Show beginning at 6:45 p.m. Fans can watch the contest live on EagleVision for $8.95 or listen online for free at the links above.
BARBER-SCOTIA COLLEGE "SABERS"
Barber-Scotia enters Tuesday night's contest at 0-9 on the year. For fans that may not know that BSC began as a female seminary in 1867. Scotia Seminary was founded by the Reverend Luke Dorland and chartered in 1870. This was a project by the Presbyterian Church to prepare young African American southern women (the daugthers of former slaves) for careers as social workers and teachers. It was the coordinate women's school for Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith University). It was the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War. One of BSC's most famous alumae was Mary McLeod Bethune, advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who started a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Fla. that is known now as Bethune-Cookman University. The Sabers compete in the United State Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA). BSC fields a men's and women's basketball team. The first meeting between these two programs took place on Dec. 8, 1986 as the Eagles took down the Sabers 79-74. Meeting No. 2 took place on Nov. 27, 1992 as NCCU crushed Barber-Scotia 103-72 in current head coach LeVelle Moton's debut.
UP NEXT
NCCU hits the road when the calendar turns to December as the Eagles will be away from the Bull City for four of the five matchups slated, beginning with the second matchup since 2007 with Monarchs of Old Dominion University on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7:00 p.m. from the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Va. Four days after that contest the maroon and gray will head to Indianapolis, Ind. to take on the Jaguars of IUPUI on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 3:05 p.m.
NCCU MAKES FIRST APPEARANCE IN MID-MAJOR TOP 25
The Eagles 4-1 start has caught the attention of many around the nation as NCCU made its first appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 at No. 24 on Nov. 25. The maroon and gray join the likes of Wichita State, Gonzaga, Belmont, Indiana State, and Harvard who reside in the top five.
EAGLES OFF TO A SOLID START
Five games into the 2013-14 season, NCCU sits at 4-1, something that hasn't happened a ton since making the transition to the Division I Level. Not since the 2004-05 season have the Eagles started this strong. A win against BSC and the maroon and gray will equal that same start. In head coach LeVelle Moton's final season as a student-athlete, NCCU went 17-1 through the first 18 games, finishing the season 20-7, falling in the first round of the NCAA Playoffs.
INGRAM EARNS MULTIPLE HONORS ON NOV. 25
After North Carolina Central University's exciting 3-0 week that included victories over Campbell, Appalachian State, and NC State, the recognition is pouring in for senior guard Jeremy Ingram (Charlotte, N.C.) who led the Eagle charge as he was named MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) Player of the Week by both the league and College Sports Madness, while also garnering Mid-Major Player of the Week on the same website and lastly the Lou Henson Award National Player of the Week Honors on CollegeInsider.com. The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the top Mid-Major player in Division I college basketball. The award is named in honor of Lou Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four. J.J. Mann of Belmont and Kendrick Perry of Youngstown State won the award in previous weeks. In NCCU's three big victories over Campbell (62-43), NC State (82-72, OT), and Appalachian State (76-70, OT) Ingram put up back-to-back 29-point performances along with a career-high 36 points in the Eagles 76-70 victory over the visiting Mountaineers on Friday night. The shooting guard also broke a school record in the historic overtime win over the Wolfpack last Wednesday, hitting 19-of-21 free throws in the win.
