A&T Controls It's Own Destiny

[Aggie One]

Jeff Mills: A&T wins home finale and hits road chasing elusive MEAC title
By Jeff Mills [e-mail] Feb 25, 2020


A&T coach Will Jones (left) and former record holder Thomas "Ice" Griffis (right) honor Aggies junior point guard Kam Langley during halftime of Monday's game, after Langley set the Aggies' career assists record.
H. Scott Hoffmann /News & Record


GREENSBORO — Another year, another perfect MEAC season at Club Corbett.

That’s three in a row if you’re counting, 25 consecutive league wins at the Corbett Sports Center dating to the 2016-17 season finale.

A&T's basketball team put a bow on this season by clobbering Md.-Eastern Shore 83-62 in its home finale Monday night.

Ron Jackson scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead a big night for A&T’s three seniors in their last Corbett Center appearance. Shooting guard Andre Jackson hit eight of 10 free throws and scored 12 points, and 6-foot-8 center Devin Haygood scored 10 points and blocked three shots.

“This place is awesome,” Ron Jackson said. “It’s an electric gym, and once we get going it’s hard to stop us.”

On this night, junior Kam Langley, the point guard from Southwest Guilford, drew the loudest cheers. He finished with 13 assists, 10 points and eight rebounds.

Langley’s third assist, an inbounds pass lobbed to Darrus Maddox for a layup, broke A&T’s career record set by Thomas “Ice” Griffis from 1984 to '88, the height of the glory days for Aggies basketball.

A&T played in seven consecutive NCAA Tournaments in the 1980s, the last four with Griffis at point guard.

The Aggies haven’t won a regular-season title since sharing one with Howard in the 1991-92 season. It was A&T’s 12th title, its seventh in a 12-year span under legendary coach Don Corbett.

And now, at last, these Aggies seem poised to end that 28-year regular-season drought.

A&T (11-3 MEAC, 15-14 overall) is in first place as the last week of February begins.

For the rest of the story:
www.greensboro.com/sports/college/ncat/jeff-mills-a-t-wins-home-finale-and-hits-road/article_59fb386f-b45a-533c-b404-f921d8da5694.html

[oleschoolaggie]

these last 2 games won't be easy. if i were coach jones i'd have my guys to look at these last 2 games as single elimination final 4 "playoff games". win 'em both starting with scsu and we'll win the meac regular season crown. lose 1 or both of these games, then our regular season destiny will be at the mercy of the buzzards and norfolk.

so our guys need to be "razor focused" in these last 2 games, hopefully we'll be able to overcome some injuries. really would be a great 2019-20 sports year if we can take the regular season men's basketball title to go along with our football title and hopefully the men's and women's indoor track titles this weekend...

[codeblu78]

Make free throws and we get these games. Easier said than done!

[lobengula]

Feb 27, 2020 11:15:30 GMT -5 codeblu78 said:

Make free throws and we get these games. Easier said than done!

Well it is on to the next phase of the season put the mess in Durham behind and just focus serious practice time extra emphasis on game management as well as fundamentals.

[JeffAggieFan]

Who do you want Howard or SCSU? I think I want SCSU. HU has always played us tough when they are an underdog. But this is the MEAC tourney and we always beats those Bison.