No more waiting for Morgan State's Anthony Hubbard

BALTIMORE, Maryland  --  As the team bus left Baltimore and headed south to Norfolk, Anthony Hubbard’s mind began racing.

In a few hours, he would take the court for the first time as a Division I men’s basketball player when Morgan State would play the University of Texas at San Antonio and he wasn’t sure what might happen.

For a year, the Woodbridge resident had waited for this opportunity after the NCAA ruled he had to sit out a year after transferring from Iowa. Hubbard never played for the Hawkeyes, but he had signed a national letter of intent and received institutional aid while attending summer school there. Morgan State applied for a waiver, but to no avail.

Then of course, there was Hubbard’s back story beyond Iowa. At age 18, Hubbard went to jail for almost four years for an armed robbery he and three other boys committed in Woodbridge on Dec. 13, 2003.

When he was released from prison on Dec. 20, 2007, Hubbard had straightened out his life and saw a bright future ahead of him.

Still, as excited as he was about finally suiting up for Morgan State, there was no denying the impact of the moment.

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