Mid-Eastern Athletic ConferenceThe Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference comes off of an excellent season in which it produced a top-shelf champ — North Carolina Central — and a successful relocation of the conference tournament, to Norfolk. N.C. Central advanced to the NCAA tournament just three years after moving up from Division II. The Eagles rewarded coach LeVelle Moton with a new contract, and they will challenge for the title again. The league's current power base appears to swing from Durham, N.C., through Hampton Roads and north to Baltimore.
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REPEAT. It's not often that a championship team loses a conference Player of the Year and an able point guard, and still gets picked to win the league. But Moton has holdovers from last year's 28-6 team and several key transfers. POY Jeremy Ingram and point guard Emmanuel Parks are gone, but Jamal Ferguson (Marquette), Nimrod Hilliard (Lamar) and JC transfer Rashaun Madison should man the backcourt. Forwards Jordan Parks (10.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg), Jay Copeland (7.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg) and Karamo Jawara (7.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg) are veterans. The frontcourt will be supplemented by transfers Enoch Hood (JMU), 6-11 Nate Maxey (Texas A&M-CC) and JC Jeremiah Ingram.
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