With two losses in MEAC, Morgan State football can't afford any more setbacks

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Saturday’s 20-17 loss at North Carolina Central saddled Morgan State with a two-game losing streak in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a 3-4 overall record and a 3-2 mark in the league.

With four teams with one MEAC loss or fewer and just three games left on the schedule, the Bears’ hopes of repeating as conference champions are dwindling. Coach Lee Hull didn’t try to sugarcoat anything when he noted that the team can’t afford to slip any farther behind No. 20 North Carolina A&T (6-1, 4-0), Bethune-Cookman (6-2, 4-1), North Carolina Central (4-3, 3-1) and South Carolina State (4-3, 3-1).

But Hull also pointed out that Morgan State finished in a five-way tie for first place in last year’s standings with a 6-2 league record and captured the title via tiebreakers.

“Obviously right now, we can’t give any...

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