Coppin State basketball coach Michael Grant says morale hasn't dipped despite 11-game skid

COURTESY COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Coppin State has gone 46 days since its only victory of the season – a 103-50 pasting of Division II Goldey-Beacom on Dec. 1.

But despite an 11-game losing streak and a 0-3 start in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, coach Michael Grant insisted that the Eagles (1-15 overall) have remained positive about turning the season around with upcoming home games against Bethune-Cookman (4-13, 0-3) on Saturday and Florida A&M (0-16, 0-3) on Monday.

“We feel pretty confident about going into these next two games against Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M,” Grant said Thursday afternoon. “Both of those games are games that we would really have a great opportunity of winning and could really get ourselves back into contention with everyone else. So that would really, really help us a lot. … But the guys are in great spirits. They have really believed that they could win. … Our guys still feel good that we can compete with anybody that is within our league, and we should be ready to go this weekend.”

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