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Game 7
Opponent: Drexel Dragons (3-4)
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Site: Hill Field House, Baltimore, Md.
Game Time: 6 p.m.
Series Record: Drexel leads 1-0
Radio: HSRN.com
Live Stats: www.morganstatebears.com
Coaches: MSU -Kevin Broadus (83-99, 7th yr) • Drexel - Zack Spiker (134-148, 10th yr)
Websites: www.morganstatebears.com | www.drexeldragons.com
SETTING THE STAGE
• The Morgan State Bears (1–5) return to Hill Field House for non-conference action against the Drexel Dragons Tuesday, Nov. 25. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. (EST).
• Morgan State and Drexel met on Dec. 11, 1999. The Dragons posted a 72-59 victory at Hill Field House.
• Rob Lawson has emerged as a major spark off the bench to open the 2025–26 season. The senior guard led the Bears with a game-high 20 points, adding five rebounds and four assists in 29 minutes at Georgetown on Nov. 11. He followed that effort with another 20-point outing against Central Penn at Hill Field House. He leads the Bears, averaging 13.0 points on 39 percent shooting from the field and 35 percent from beyond the arc.
• Senior guard Alfred Worrell Jr. played in 32 games and averaged 6.5 points and 1.6 rebounds as a junior at Southern Mississippi last season. He shot 38 percent from the floor, 33 percent from distance, and 87 percent from the free throw line. He enters Tuesday's matchup averaging 12.8 points on 29 percent shooting from the field.
• Graduate guard Elijah Davis transferred from Bowie State, where he started in every game (30) and averaged 10 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.9 steals, and 31.8 minutes. He also played for Mississippi Valley State (2021-22), Walter State C.C. (2022-23), and Incarnate Word (2023-24). He's currently averaging 12.3 points, 4.5 assists, and 3.2 rebounds and is shooting 53 percent from the floor.
• Graduate guard Walter Peggs Jr. was a BOXTOROW DII HBCU All-America First Team selection as a standout at Spring Hill College. He became the program's leading scorer in the Division-II era, with 1,137 career points. He also broke the team's two-year career points per game record, averaging 21.3 points per game over two seasons.
• Graduate center Dallas James spent four seasons at South Carolina State before joining the Indiana Hoosiers in 2024-25.
SCOUTING DREXEL
• Zach Spiker is now in his 10th season as the head coach of the Drexel Men's Basketball program. Spiker and his staff have led the Dragons to five straight winning seasons for the first time since the 1996-97 season. Last season, the Dragons were 18-15 overall and narrowly missed defeating the top seed in the Coastal Athletic Association quarterfinals. Spiker has continued to rebuild the roster and keep Drexel as a major player in the Coastal Athletic Association despite the changing environment in college athletics.
• Shane Blakeney was named CAA Preseason Honorable Mention. Blakeney finished the 2024-25 campaign as Drexel's sixth man, appearing in all 33 games for the blue and gold. The junior averaged 7.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game, along with shooting a 73 percent mark from the charity stripe. The Rock Hill, S.C. native finished second on the team with 19 blocked shots, handed out 52 assists and came away with 22 steals. The Dragons were picked to finish 10th in the CAA Preseason Poll.
• Drexel has five new faces on the roster this season. Freshman Moses Hipps transferred from Boise State, where he sat out last season as a redshirt. He was ranked a three-star prospect by both ESPN and 274Sports, as well as being a top 250 recruit in the class of 2024. Senior Eli Beard transferred from Mary Hardin-Baylor where he started 26 games and was named a First Team All-American after finishing second in the ASC with 22.3 points per game. Junior Martin de LaPorterie transferred from Yavapai Community College, where he started every game last season while averaging 12.8 points and 6.4 rebounds. Sophomore Dillon Tingler joins the Dragons after spending last year at Eastern Michigan. Freshman Ignacio Campoy Galvez has won nine championships. He is a three-time Spanish Champion, four-time Madrid Champion, and two European Championships
• The Dragons are led by junior guard Shane Blakeney, who is averaging 12.7 points and 4.9 rebounds through seven games. Sophomore guard Josh Reed is contributing 11 points and 4.0 rebounds, while junior guard Kevon Vanderhorst adds 11 points and 3.6 rebounds.
• The Monarchs are averaging 73.4 points per game while shooting 44 percent from the field and 29.5 percent from beyond the arc.
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE DRAGONS
• Nov. 23, 2025 -- The Drexel Dragons defeated the Old Dominion Monarchs Sunday afternoon, 75-71, at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. Kevon Vanderhorst scored a career-high 16 points. Josh Reed led the team with 18 points off the bench, shooting 54% from the field, and three assists. Shane Blakeney scored 15 while pulling down four rebounds and blocking two Monarch shots. Drexel outrebounded Old Dominion 38-35 and shot a season high 76.2% from the free throw line.
THE SERIES
• Drexel leads the series 1-0 since 1999.
UP NEXT
The Bears will host Longwood on Saturday, December 6, at Hill Field House. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. EST.
AT THE HELM
• Kevin Broadus is in his seventh season at the helm of the program, having been named the men's head basketball coach in 2019.
• The Broadus-led Bears team has compiled several significant victories over non-conference competition, elevating the caliber of wins for a program that aims to compete at a championship level within the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). Broadus demonstrated exemplary leadership while successfully overcoming numerous challenges at the onset of his tenure at Morgan, including navigating the rebuilding of a program under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• During the 2024–25 season, the Bears finished with an overall record of 14–18, highlighted by a balanced 7–7 mark in MEAC play. The performance mirrored that of the previous season, when Morgan State went 11–20 overall, while also posting a .500 record in conference competition. In 2022–23, the Bears finished 15–15 overall and 7–7 in the MEAC, following a 13–15 campaign in 2021–22 that saw them place fourth in the league standings and reach the MEAC Tournament semifinals. The year prior, in 2021, Morgan advanced all the way to the MEAC Tournament championship game.
• Before Morgan, Broadus worked at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was one of the nation's best recruiters as the top assistant on Mark Turgeon's coaching staff. Broadus was influential in the successful NCAA tournament run for the Terps.
• Consistently ranked in the top 20 nationally for recruiting, Broadus was instrumental in signing several local Baltimore talents such as DeJuan Summers, Brandon Herbert, LaFonta Johnson, and Henry Sims.
WHO'S OUT
Kameron Hobbs (Stockbridge, Ga./Dutchtown HS), Wynston Tabbs (Suitland, Md./St. Mary's Ryken School HS), Amahrie Simpkins (Brooklyn, N.Y.), and Will Thomas (Baltimore, Md./Mervo HS) wrapped up their collegiate careers and graduated last spring.
• Hobbs, a BOXTOROW HBCU First Team All-American, passed Jimmy Fields (139) to become No. 6 on Morgan State's all-time 3-point field goals leaderboard. He completed his career with 150 3-pointers.
WHO'S BACK
The Bears return three starters from last year's team, bringing back guard Rob Lawson and forward Trent Edwards. MSU also returns Christian Oliver, who was on the squad during the 2023-24 season.
WHO'S IN
The Bears have added several newcomers to the 2025-26 roster: G Elijah Davis (Bowie State), G Alfred Worrell Jr. (Southern Mississippi), and G Christian Meeks (Waubonsee C.C.). Newcomers also include F Eugene Alvin (Florida Southwestern) and F Manok Lual (Frostburg State), along with C Dallas James, a transfer from Indiana.
RETURNING PRODUCTION NUMBERS
Morgan State returns 16.6 percent of its scoring, 18.7 percent of its rebounding, and 23.8 percent of its minutes played totals from last year's team. The team leaders in field goal percentage (Rob Lawson - .350), three-point percentage (Rob Lawson, .379), free throw percentage (Rob Lawson., .747), rebounding (Rob Lawson - 2.6 rpg), assists (Rob Lawson, 2.4), steals (Rob Lawson, 0.9), blocked shots (Trent Edwards, 1.0), and minutes played (Rob Lawson, 26.7). Rob Lawson (23) is the only returner who has started in at least five (5) games a year ago.
HOME GROWN
Morgan State has five (5) players from the DMV (D.C., Maryland & Metropolitan-D.C.) area. Senior guard Rob Lawson is from Capitol Heights and played at National Christian Academy. Veteran guard Elijah Davis hails from Severn, Md., and played at Incarnate Word. Redshirt senior forward Jayden Socka is from Silver Spring, Md., and attended Springbrook HS. Graduate student guard Alfred Worrell Jr. and freshman David Bumpass are from Washington, D.C. Worrell went to Montgomery Blair HS, and Bumpass attended Friendship Tech Prep Academy.
ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTION
Graduate student Walter Peggs Jr., a transfer from Spring Hill College, was named to the preseason All-MEAC Third Team.
• Peggs was a BOXTOROW Division II HBCU All-America First Team selection and became the first player in program history to earn two BOXTOROW HBCU All-America honors. He was also a SIAC First Team All-Conference pick and was named to the NABC Honors Court.
• At Spring Hill, Peggs became the program's Division II era career scoring leader with 1,137 points and set the two-year career scoring average record at 21.3 points per game. He started all 26 games last season, averaging a career-best 26.0 points and 35.6 minutes per game. Peggs totaled 676 points to set the program's Division II single-season scoring record, while adding 92 rebounds. He also set Division II era records with 99 made three-pointers and 151 made free throws. Peggs shot career highs of 48.2% (213-442) from the field, 42.1% (99-235) from three-point range, and 87.8% (151-172) from the free-throw line.
TABBED TO FINISH FOURTH
The Morgan State men's basketball team has been picked to finish fourth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's preseason poll, announced by the conference today.
• The 2025-26 Bears earned 73 total points in the voting. Norfolk State claimed 12 first-place votes and 118 points total as the defending MEAC champions. Howard (97 pts) was selected second, followed by South Carolina State in third place (90 pts). Delaware State (70 pts), North Carolina Central (70 pts), Maryland Eastern Shore (31 pts), and Coppin State (27 pts) rounded out the league's predicted order of finish.
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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.
