Heading into a two game road trip, second year FAMU basketball coach Eugene Harris has his young Rattler basketball team on top of the MEAC standings for the first time in more than a decade. The Rattlers won a crucial four game home stand besting conference foes Howard, Hampton, Morgan, and Coppin.Today's two-game road stretch will pit the Rattlers against Maryland Eastern Shore (at 4 pm) and against Delaware State on Monday evening. UMES is 3-14, while Del State is 4-15, 2-2 MEAC.
The Rattlers are no stranger to the road having played nine of their first 11 games away from Gaither Gym, most of those games were guarantee games.