Game 4
Morgan State (3-0) vs. Washington Adventist (2-1)
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
Site: Baltimore, Md. (Hill Field House)
Tip-off: 5:30 p.m.
Series Record: Morgan leads, 6-0
T/V: N/A
Audio: Heritage Sports Radio Network (HSRN.com)
Live Stream: Here
Live Stats: Here
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BALTIMORE, Md. (Nov. 15, 2022)-The Morgan State Lady Bears will welcome the Shock of Washington Adventist to Hill Field House on Wednesday, Nov. 16 for a non-conference contest at 5:30 p.m. for Girls Night Out.
 
HOW TO WATCH GAMES: All men's and women's basketball home games will be video streamed for free through the MorganStateBears.com website. The latest broadcast and video stream information will always be listed on men's and women's basketball schedule pages at MorganStateBears.com.
 
MEN'S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RADIO: All home games and select away games for MSU men's and women's basketball will once again be available through Heritage Sports Radio Network (HSRN.com). Lamont Germany will handle play-by-play responsibilities and will also host pre-game and post-game shows. Including exclusive interviews with members of the teams and women's coach Ed Davis and men's coach Kevin Broadus. Fans can download the HSRN app for free and listen to the MSU broadcasts from anywhere. Simply search for HSRN when using the iHeartRadio app.

BEAR CLAWS: Morgan State (3-0) enters this game coming off a 90-55 non-conference victory over Notre Dame of Maryland (11/14). Jael Butler scored a game-high 20 points to lead four Lady Bear players in double figures scoring. Charlene Shepherd came off the bench to total 18 points and had a game-high 14 rebounds to earn a double-double. Maiya Bumbray added 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from three-point range and Ja'Niah Henson contributed 10 points. Morgan State held a 38-38 advantage at the intermission and closed out the game outscoring the Gators 33-16 in the fourth period.  
  
SHOCK TRAMA: Washington Adventist is a NAIA member institution located in Takoma Park, Maryland. The Shock (2-1) are coached by Jered Lyons, who is in his ninth season at WAU and his first as athletic director. Washington Adventist is coming off a 77-56 victory at West Virginia Institute of Technology on Sunday, Nov. 13. Sole Carroll came off the bench to score a game-high 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting to lead five Shock players in double figures scoring. Sarah Shamdeen added 14 points and Brianna Jones finished with 12 and grabbed seven rebounds. Jahnaya Peterson recorded 10 points, seven rebounds, a game-high five steals and a game-high four assists. Amber Morman also finished with 10 points and seven rebounds.  
 
MSU VS. WASHINGTON ADVENTIST SERIES NOTES: Morgan State leads the all-time series, 6-0. The Lady Bears and Washington Adventist met last season at Hill Field House with Morgan State earning a 73-34 victory (11/24/21).

NEXT UP: Morgan State will continue its six-game homestand when it welcomes its fifth opponent to Hill Field House this season in Saint Peter's on Friday, Nov. 18 for Gratitude Day. Tip-off is at 5:30 p.m.

HENSON NAMED MEAC CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Senior guard Ja'Niah Henson was named MEAC Co-Player of the Week (11/15) along with Norfolk State's Kierra Wheeler. Henson averaged 16 points per game to help Morgan to a 3-0 start. The Baltimore, Md. native, shot a combined 18-of-36 (.500) from the floor and was 9-for-18 (.500) from three-point range. Henson opened the season with 16 points, while knocking down 3-for-4 three-pointers, four steals and two assists against Shepherd, then scored a game-high 22 points with four made three-pointers, four assists, four rebounds and three steals in a comeback win against Loyola Maryland. The 5-foot-3 guard ended the week with 10 points, two rebounds, two assists and a steal against local foe Notre Dame (Md.).
 
BUTLER HAS BIG DAY: Freshman center Jael Butler had a career day in just the third game of her career as a Lady Bear. The 6-foot-2 native of Gilroy, Calif., scored a season-best 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting and added five rebounds, a steal and an assist in the win over Notre Dame of Maryland (11/14). 
 
BUMBRAY FROM THREE: Senior guard Maiya Bumbray came off the bench in the win over Notre Dame of Maryland and scored a career-high 12 points on a career-high four three-pointers made in 13 minutes of action against the Gators. 
 
THAT'S A FIRST: Last season the Lady Bears captured their first-ever MEAC regular season crown in program history, as they finished in a three-way tie with Howard and Norfolk State for a share of the MEAC crown. All three teams split the season series against one another going 1-1 and finished with identical 11-3 MEAC records. The team will be honored during this Saturday's season finale football contest against Howard (11/19) and again on Monday, Jan. 23 when both the women's and men's teams face Norfolk State.
 
MORGAN IN SEASON OPENERS: The Lady Bears improved to 13-33 all-time in season openers dating back to 1977, following their 78-39 victory over Shepherd in the season opener on Monday, Nov. 7. Morgan State at one point had lost 23 straight season openers prior to winning three straight from 2006-08.
 
PROTECTING THE 'HOUSE': With its win over Notre Dame of Maryland (11/14), Morgan State improved to 3-0 on the season and has now won 29 of its last 32 home games dating back to the 2018-19 campaign. The Lady Bears went 9-1 at Hill Field House during the 2021-22 season. During an abbreviated 2020-21 season due to the Covid-19 pandemic, MSU went 6-1 at Hill Field House. The season before that the Lady Bears concluded the 2019-20 campaign with a 10-1 home record, which was the program's best home court mark since the 2017-18 team finished 10-3.
 
MORGAN-LOYOLA MARYLAND RENEW SERIES: The Morgan State and Loyola women's basketball programs renewed their series last year on Dec. 8, 2021 after a 35-year hiatus. The Lady Bears would win on the road, 64-55. It was the first meeting between the two schools separated by 2.7 miles, since the 1985-86 season. The Lady Bears also claimed this season's contest, defeating the Greyhounds at home, 59-50 (11/10). Morgan State now leads the all-time series, 14-2.
 
2022-23 CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED: Morgan State graduate player Taylor Addison (Columbia, Md.) and senior Ja'Niah Henson (Baltimore, Md.) have been named this year's team captains for the 2022-23 campaign.
 
WELCOME HOME: A familiar face joined the Morgan State sideline this season with the addition of Tykyrah Williams as an assistant coach. Williams, who is no stranger to Morgan State, was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter for the Lady Bears from 2014-18. Williams finished her career scoring 1,068 points and pulled down 589 rebounds to become the seventh player at Morgan State to record more than 1,000 points and 500 rebounds. She ranks 13^th all-time in scoring, 10^th in rebounding and 12^th in steals on the Morgan State career charts.
   
MORGAN PICKED TO FINISH FOURTH IN MEAC: Morgan State was picked to finish fourth in the 2022-23 MEAC Preseason Poll. Last season the Lady Bears were picked to finish second for the second consecutive year and ended up finishing tied for first for the MEAC regular season crown with Howard and Norfolk State. It marked the program's first-ever MEAC regular season title.
 
2023 MEAC TOURNAMENT: The 2023 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) men's and women's basketball tournament is scheduled for March 8-11, 2023 at the Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va. The annual MEAC Basketball Tournament moved to Norfolk in 2013 after spending the previous four years in Winston-Salem, N.C. from 2009 through 2012.


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Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified high research (R2) institution offering nearly 140 academic programs leading to degrees from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland's Preeminent Public Urban Research University, and the only university to have its entire campus designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information about Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.