Climbing the Ladder

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Haha our much improved schedule:

Nov 16 VMI
Nov 19 @ Navy
Nov 23 @ Detroit Mercy
Nov 26 Stony Brook
Nov 30 @ Nevada

Dec 3 Kansas City
Dec 7 @ Md-Baltimore County
Dec 14 Robert Morris
Dec 21 @ La Salle
Dec 28 Niagara

Jan 4 @Fresno State

Conference
Jan 11 @ Presbyterian
Jan 14 Chicago State
Jan18 @ Citadel
Jan 21 @ Texas-Rio Grande
Jan 25 Kennesaw
Jan 28 @ Longwood

Feb 1 Howard
Feb 4 Prairie View
Feb 8 @ Mississippi Valley
Feb 11 Grambling
Feb 15 @Alcorn State
Feb 18 @ Merrimack
Feb 22 North Alabama
Feb 25 Presbyterian

Mar 1 @ Chicago State
Mar 4 Citadel

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Preseason poll
1 Kansas
2 Arizona
3 Duke
4 Wisconsin
5 Kentucky
6 Louisville
7 Syracuse
8 Maryland
9 North Carolina
10 Florida
11 Illinois
12 Gonzaga
13 Ohio State
14 Xavier
15 Villanova
16 West Virginia
17 Michigan State
18Texas
19 Marquette
20 Memphis
21 Virginia
22 Iowa
23 Cincinnati
24 Florida State
25 Iowa State

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Roster

Starting
Murray McLean 6-4 Sr Taking over at point guard. He should score a lot of points for us, Good passer, great rebounder for a PG.
BJ Walters 6-6 Sr SG he is an excellent outside shooter. Good from the line. avg passing and handling. good rebounder. good thief
TJ Alexander 6-8 So TJ returns as our starting SF this year.Hes an avg shooter. Good rebounder and our best defender.
Scott McNight 6-6 So starting PF. He is our most improved player.Below avg shooter. Good rebounder good shot blocker and stealer
William Guinn 6-8 Jr good scorer. above avg rebounder above avg def

Bench
Kevin Mosley 6-4 So walkon PG
Corey Jones 6-3 Fr walkon PG
Inyo Wade 6-0 Jr good outside shooter. Will be mostly backup PG
Bevon Gray 6-1 Jr started at SG last year. Good shooter
Jared Jackson 6-7 Jr will see very little playing time
Delano Tart 6-7 Fr redshirted last year. will see action at forward. Avg shooter, below avg everything else
Juan Miller 6-6 Sr started at PF last year. avg shooter. decent rebounder
Darnell Mims 6-8 Fr C good inside shooter, bad at everything else
Lamont Butler 6-8 Sr. Started most of the year at C last year. decent inside shooter decent rebounder and avg defender

Ike Williams 6-7 PF redshirted

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VMI Keydets @ UMES Hawks Nov 16, 2020

VMI comes to town. Opening game for both clubs. We get off to a hot start and never look back. We led 40-28 at half and end the game with a 84-70 victory. We played as a team with 5 players in double figures. It was a good start to the season.

BJ Walters SG was player of the game. He had 20 pts 3 asts 2 rebs 2 stls. He was lighting them up hitting 5 of 9 3s. Guinn our C added 11 pts and 8 rebs.

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UMES Hawks 1-0 @ Navy Midshipmen 0-1 Nov 19, 2020

We take on Navy for our first road game.Navy jumped out to a big lead. They led 54-34 at half. We couldnt get any closer in the second. They won 98-75. We shot well and handled the ball ok. The big problem was second chance points. They had 14 we had 0. We only got 4 offensive rebs the entire game. We were -16 on rebs.

Murray McLean our PG did all he could. He scored 28 pts hitting 8 of 15 3s. added 7 asts, 3 rebs, 1 blk
BJ Walters SG hit 6-9 3s for 18 pts

Jim McKnight signs a LOI. We have 4 scholarships left

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UMES Hawks 1-1 @ Detroit Mercy Titans 1-1Nov 23, 2020

We take the long trip to play the K conf Titans. We stayed with them the whole game. It was 39-38 in their favor at half. In the end we just fell short 83-80. We rebounded much better this game being -3.

Murray McLean PG was our top scorer again. He had 21 pts. He is hitting 51.7% on 3s for the first 3 games.

William Guinn our C played limited minutes because of foul trouble. Lamont Bulter our backup C had a great game off the bench. He had 20 pts 8 rebs 2 asts.

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Stony Brook Seawolves 1-2 @ UMES Hawks 1-2 Nov 26, 2020

A hard fought game. We didnt shoot as well this game as we have been especially from 3 pt land. At the end the Seawolves pulled away and beat us 71-61.

McLean PG had our best game 12 pts 5 rebs 4 asts 1 stl.

Next up we have to travel west to face Nevada from conf E

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UMES Hawks 1-3 @ Nevada Wolfpack 2-1 Nov 30, 2020

Long trip to Nevada. They shut us down in the first half. and we committed too many fouls. At half they led 47-22. We played a good game the second half but not well enoughto overcome a 25 pt lead. Final Wolfpack 92 Hawks 79

We had 5 men in double figures.

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Kansas City Kangaroos 0-3 @ UMES Hawks 1-4Nov 3, 2020
We dominated this one from the start. Our best game. We did everything well in this one. Hope it is a sign of things to come. We led 46-32 at half and won it 95-70.

once again we had a lot of players scoring with 6 in double figures.Scott McNight our sophmore PF was player of the game with 17 pts 8 rebs 1 stl.

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UMES Hawks 2-4 @ Md-Baltimore County Retrievers 3-3 Dec 7, 2020

A good defense held the Retrievers in check. We were +26 in the paint. We led by 10 at half and won it 74-61. We never trailed. We were up by as many as 21. Final Hawks 74 Retrievers 61

TJ Alexander SF named player of the game 11 pts 6 rebs 5 asts 5 stls