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MEAC Basketball: Top 10 head coaches of the century (2000-20)

By Joey Loose

OMAHA, NE - MARCH 16: Players for the Norfolk State Spartans support their teammates from the bench against the Missouri Tigers during the second round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at CenturyLink Center on March 16, 2012 in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
OMAHA, NE - MARCH 16: Players for the Norfolk State Spartans support their teammates from the bench against the Missouri Tigers during the second round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at CenturyLink Center on March 16, 2012 in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) /
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COLLEGE PARK, MD – DECEMBER 29: Head coach Greg Jackson of the Delaware State Hornets (Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MD – DECEMBER 29: Head coach Greg Jackson of the Delaware State Hornets (Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images) /

8. MEAC Basketball coach rankings – Greg Jackson (Delaware State, 2000-2014)

There was plenty to like about Jackson’s fourteen years leading Delaware State, especially when you consider what he was working with. He got his career started as head coach at North Carolina Central before that program joined Division 1. He inherited a Delaware State program without much success, but that wouldn’t last forever.

Jackson took Delaware State to their first (and only) NCAA Tournament in 2005 and followed that up with a run of three straight MEAC regular season titles. One wild fact about Jackson’s tenure is that Delaware State won at least 11 conference games in each of his first six seasons, something that had never happened since they had joined the league in the 1970’s. For the first time in their history, the Hornets were actually competing for conference titles on Jackson’s watch.

Things sputtered out and Jackson was fired midseason in 2014, though he certainly left behind quite a legacy with the Hornets. He’s still responsible for almost all of the program’s positive history. Consider that Jackson was 145-83 in MEAC play after his predecessors failed to field competitive teams. Fifteen years have passed since that NCAA Tournament run, and this Hornets program is nowhere close to getting back there, winning just 16 games in their last three years.