NORFOLK, Virginia -- Ask almost anyone on the Norfolk State basketball team about the options they have on offense, they’ll likely respond with, “It’s pick your poison.”
Robert Jones is the only coach in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with three players that rank among the top 15 scorers. “It has it’s benefits,” said the team’s second-year head coach.
At the point, and the team’s focal point, is Jeff Short. The 6-foot-4 redshirt-junior transferred from Fordham University and had to sit out last season due to NCAA rules. Even after all that “down time,” he’s still the leading scorer in the MEAC with 19.4 points per game.
Short has shown off that talent on a number of occasions during practice, even against the likes of Pendarvis Williams (former MEAC Player of the Year) and Malcolm Hawkins. But to see him “explode” onto the scene is something his teammates and coaches didn’t expect to see so quickly.
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