NORFOLK, Virginia -- Maybe losing two of its last four conference games is the sort of reality check that can benefit Norfolk State when the basketball season actually starts to mean something.A coach can hope.
Robert Jones was an assistant on the Spartans team that thought it was unbeatable going into last year's MEAC tournament at Scope, only to be bounced in its first game by Bethune-Cookman.
After sweeping through the conference at 16-0, "we kind of went into the tournament big-headed," said Jones, who is now in charge of checking players' hat sizes.
Under the 34-year-old Jones, Norfolk State picked up where it left off before last year's tournament debacle, stretching its regular-season MEAC winning streak to 23 before falling to Morgan State on Jan. 18. After righting the ship against Coppin State, the Spartans lost at South Carolina State on Saturday.
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