MEAC Basketball: Sam Sessoms has been a game-changer for Coppin State

Former Binghamton and Penn State PG Sam Sessoms found a new home with Coppin State Basketball and instantly became one of the best scorers in the MEAC in the process. Is he the key to renewed hopes for a MEAC title run?

If you had the chance to watch Sam Sessoms play basketball last season in a Penn State uniform, you kinda saw something like this coming. Sessoms landed in Baltimore with Coppin State hoops and hit the ground running, becoming not just a leader on Coach Juan Dixon’s squad, but becoming one of the more prolific scoring guards in all of the mid-major basketball ranks so far this season. To say that Sessoms has been a walking bucket this season would be…an understatement.

Sessoms is averaging 23.7 points and 5.6 assists per game and has become the offensive focal point for a Coppin State guard rotation that’s among the better groups in mid-major basketball. He’s become a primary variable that opposing coaches have to gameplan for. As the beginning of MEAC conference play approaches, his ability to put the ball in the basket will be at the forefront for a Coppin State squad that isn’t necessarily blessed with size or post depth. What they DO have is a bevy of interchangeable pieces at the guard and forward spots, including a potent backcourt rotation led by Sessoms.

The Mid-Eastern Atletic Conference, much like the majority of mid-major and major college basketball at large, is a breeding ground for tough, hard-nosed, and skilled guard play. Coppin may arguably have the best rotation in the league, led by the most prolific scoring threat in the conference, given Sessom’s offensive wizardry.

It’s going to be entertaining watching how the MEAC adjusts to what he brings to what’s already one of the more parity-filled and competitive leagues in mid-major and Division 1 basketball.