Men's Bracket | Women's Bracket

NORFOLK, Va., April 24, 2023 – North Carolina Central will serve as host for the 2023 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Tennis Championships, which will be held Thursday through Saturday at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. The brackets were officially unveiled on Monday.
 
All six men's teams and all seven women's teams will be competing for their respective titles.
 
South Carolina State will be the top seed in the men's bracket after going 5-0 in MEAC play this season; the Bulldogs, who won the MEAC the last two seasons and have 17 titles overall (and 14 since 2004), will have a bye into Friday's semifinal round, as will No. 2 seed Morgan State, which went 4-1 in MEAC play.
 
Thursday's quarterfinal round will see No. 3 seed North Carolina Central (3-2) take on No. 6 seed Coppin State (0-5) at 2 p.m., while the 4/5 match-up will be between Howard (2-3) and Norfolk State (1-4) at the same time. South Carolina State will take on the winner of the Howard-NSU match, while Morgan State will face the NCCU-Coppin State winner.
 
On the women's side, two-time defending champion South Carolina State is the top seed after going a perfect 6-0 in conference play and will have a bye into the semifinals. Since 2005, the Bulldogs have won 15 titles.
 
The Bulldogs will face the winner of Thursday's 8 a.m. quarterfinal between No. 4 seed Howard (4-2) and No. 5 seed Morgan State (2-4). The other 8 a.m. quarterfinal will pit No. 2 seed North Carolina Central (4-2) against No. 7 seed Coppin State (0-6), while at 11 a.m. on Thursday, No. 3 seed Delaware State (4-2) will take on No. 6 Norfolk State (1-5).
 
With the Eagles, Hornets and Bison each finishing 4-2 in MEAC play and going 1-1 head-to-head, the tiebreaker fell to points won against all tied teams; North Carolna Central won that tiebreaker with eight combined points won against the Hornets and Bison, with Delaware State following with seven points won and Howard six.
 
The semifinals and championship matches of the 2023 MEAC Tennis Championships will stream live for the second straight year, this season, those matches will be live on ESPN+. Friday's semifinals will get underway with women's matches at 9 a.m., followed by the men at 12 p.m.
 
Championship Saturday will begin with the women's title match at 9 a.m., followed at 1 p.m. by the men's championship final. 
 
For more information on the 2023 MEAC Tennis Championships, please visit the Championship Central page.

 
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 51^st year of intercollegiate competition with the 2021-22 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.