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Game 1
Opponent: Central Penn Knights (0-1)
Date: Thursday, 6, 2025
Site: Hill Field House, Baltimore, Md.
Game Time: 6 p.m. EST
Live Stats: here
MSU Coaches: MSU - Kevin Broadus (82-94, 7th yr) • CPC - Kent Alston (0-1, 1st yr)
Websites: www.MorganStateBears.com | www.CentralPennKnights.com
SETTING THE STAGE
• Morgan State (0-1) opens the 2025-26 season on Thursday, Nov. 6, with a matchup against the Central Penn Knights (0-1) at 6 p.m. (EST) inside Hill Field House.
• Morgan State won the last meeting between the teams by a score of 91-65 on Dec. 1, 2024. Wynston Tabbs had a team-high 27 points, and Rob Lawson added 20 to help Morgan defeat Central Pennsylvania 123-70 to snap the Bears' 4-game losing streak on a Sunday afternoon at Hill Field House. Lawson matched a career-high with 20 points (6-8 FG) off the bench with five assists and four rebounds. The Bears had seven players score in double figures.
• 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 Thursday's matchup coming off a 14-point outing against Georgetown (Nov. 11).
• Rob Lawson paced the Bears with a game-high 20 points on 5-for-9 shooting and was a perfect 7-for-7 from the free throw line, with five boards and four assists in 29 minutes off the bench versus Georgetown (Nov. 11).
• 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.
• 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).
SCOUTING CENTRAL PENN
• Head coach Kenton Alston enters his first year as the Knights' Head Men's Basketball Coach. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. During his collegiate career, Alston helped lead Penn State Harrisburg to two Northeast Athletic Conference (NEAC) Championships. A four-year team captain and four-time All-Conference selection (three-time First Team All-NEAC, one Second Team), he was also recognized as Penn State Harrisburg's Male Student-Athlete of the Year in 2012.
• Dahsan King earned ESAC Second-Team All-Conference honors last season after averaging 17.7 points per game.
The Knights have three players on the roster from Baltimore: F/C Donnell Loud (Kenwood HS), G Khalil Dukes (Parkville), and G Aaron Harrison Jr. (Mervo HS).
THE SERIES
• Morgan State leads the series 2-0.
• Kevin Broadus' first win as coach of the Bears was a 71-44 win over Central Pennsylvania at Hill Field House on November 6, 2019.
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE KNIGHTS
• Dahsan King scored a game-high 18 points to lead Central Penn, but the Knights fell in their season opener, 93-67, to Cheyney on Tuesday night. Jenkins Connor contributed 11 points and four rebounds, while Riley Young added 10 points as the only other Knight in double figures. Cheyney shot 47.8 percent from the field and went 7-for-16 from three-point range. The Knights shot 38 percent overall and connected on 7-of-25 attempts from beyond the arc. Cheyney also held a 40-34 edge on the glass.
NEXT UP
The Bears will host UMBC on Tuesday, November 11, inside Hill Field House. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. EST.
AT THE HELM
• Kevin Broadus is entering 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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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.
