Somebody call a paramedic!!! Morgan St & Coppin St are in the MEAC finals!!!

OMG!!! I am overjoyed to know that Morgan FINALLY has a good enough basketball team. I’m so proud of my alma mater. Coppin, ya’ll have been there done that before, so I’m not caring so much, plus I want Morgan to wax your hot Baltimore asses tonight.

Let me tell you, damn scarlet and gray groupies, this ain’t nothin’ like OSU vs. Michigan. First of all, it’s black folks with bands that play songs that make you say “unnhh…na-na-na-naaa”. I’m so mad we moved from Raleigh (ok, Cary, NC…the suburban equivalent of where I grew up in MD…trust me, I righted that wrong move this round.) or I’d be there.

Even I want to see this, and I don’t follow much basketball. The Morgan-Coppin game was always the highlight of the Basketball season for those of us at those schools and who lived in Baltimore. It was East Side vs West Side…wassup! wassup! pow! (Ms. Tony moment). There’s not much to Coppin, but I have to give their basketball program props for their ability to work the local area and scoop those basketball boys that probably had given up thoughts of/or never had thoughts of playing in college and giving them a break. Morgan has been a little slower on that front, well basically the entire sports front. I guess that’s why this whole freakish allegiance I see folks have to their school’s football and basketball programs seems so foreign to me. My hubby attended Big East schools, and he’s in the scene, but even he is weirded out about the extent that some areas are about their schools. Just for kicks, and just because, we wear our school’s gear when we go to breakfast on game days just to break up the monotony of OSU sweatshirts from the staff to the customers.

Damnit! I gotta make that money tonight and go to work. I jokingly call my hubby my pimp since I work nights (my job’s legit in case you’re wondering…hee’hee!). I’ll record it, and I won’t even have to bother with someone ruining it by telling me the score because most people around these parts have never heard of Morgan State or Coppin State in the first place.

Go Bears! Do me proud for once, please? Check out the article I pasted below from The Baltimore Sun or check the link www.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/basketball/mens/bal-morgan0314,0,4856866.story

baltimoresun.com
Morgan St. 61, Delaware St. 55
Holmes’ free throws send Morgan St. to MEAC finals
The Associated Press
11:47 PM EDT, March 14, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C.

Reggie Holmes scored 18 points, including 10 of 12 free throws in the final 1:09, to lead Morgan State to 61-55 semifinal victory over Delaware State in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament today.

Top-seeded Morgan State (22-9) will play Coppin State on Saturday.

Morgan State played in the MEAC tournament finals from 1974-78 but only won in 1977. Fourth-seeded Delaware State (14-16) was gunning for its fourth straight championship game and last won the title in 2005.

The Bears overcame a horrible first half where they trailed 19-14 and had more turnovers, 7, than field goals, 4 of 17. The Hornets weren’t much better, shooting 7 of 20 from the floor and turning the ball over eight times in the half.

But in the second half, the Bears shot 61.9 percent from the field and took the lead for good at 29-28 with 9:53 left on two free throws by Jerrell Green.

Boubacar Coly added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Bears.

Roy Bright led Delaware State with 22 points. Marcus Neal and Kyle White had 10 apiece.