Game 1
Morgan State (0-0, 0-0 MEAC) vs. Shepherd (0-0, 0-0 PSAC)
Date: Monday, Nov. 7, 2022
Site: Baltimore, Md. (Hill Field House)
Tip-off: 5:30 p.m.
Series Record: First Meeting
T/V: N/A
Audio: N/A
Live Stream: Here
Live Stats: Here
Websites: MorganStateBears.com | shepherdrams.com
 
BALTIMORE, Md. (Nov. 7, 2022)-The Morgan State women's basketball team will kickoff the 2022-23 season at home this evening when it welcomes Shepherd to Hill Field House for the season opener at 5:30 p.m. This will be the first meeting between the two programs. Monday's contest will be the first of six consecutive home games to start the season.
 
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.

A LOOK AT THE RAMS: Shepherd (0-0) a member of the Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) was picked to finish ninth in the PSAC East in the league's preseason poll. Shepherd went 25-8 last season and finished 16-6 in league play. The Rams enter the season under the guidance of first-year head coach Julie Kaufman, who came to Shepherd after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant at Mount St. Mary's, where she helped the Mount to back-to-back NEC titles and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances.  
 
MSU VS. SHEPHERD SERIES NOTES: Morgan State and Shepherd will meet for the first time.

NEXT UP: Morgan State will welcome Loyola Maryland to Hill Field House on Thursday, Nov. 10. Tip-off is at 5:30 p.m.

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.
 
MORGAN IN SEASON OPENERS: The Lady Bears are 12-33 all-time in season openers dating back to 1977, following a 69-53 loss at San Francisco last season. Morgan State at one point had lost 23 straight season openers prior to winning three straight from 2006-08.
 
PROTECTING THE 'HOUSE': Morgan State enters the season having won 26 of its last 29 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. Morgan State now leads the all-time series, 12-2.
 
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.
   
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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ABOUT MORGAN
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.