MEAC Basketball: Ranking of 25 best players from last decade (2013-23)

15. Jermaine Marrow

If we could include his entire career today, Marrow would be significantly higher on this list. A 6’0 point guard from Newport News, Virginia, he arrived at Hampton in 2016 and starred for four seasons with the Pirates. However, Hampton departed the MEAC for the Big South after his sophomore season. Marrow already showed up in our Big South article but he did enough to get mentioned here too.

He certainly didn’t have the same type of offensive numbers as those upperclassman seasons, but Marrow as still special early for the Pirates. He’d average 15.6 points per game as a freshman, including a 31-point effort at Florida A&M. Marrow helped guide Hampton to a pair of 3rd place finishes in the MEAC, getting the program to the CBI as a freshman and NIT as a sophomore. He was also averaging 19.1 points, 5.4 assists, and 5.0 rebounds already as a sophomore.

Marrow became a nationally ranked scorer in the Big South but was already dominant in the MEAC, earning First Team All-MEAC honors in that fantastic sophomore season. Not only did he contribute on two high-quality seasons for Hampton before changing leagues, but he was among the MEAC’s leaders in most categories, most notably assists and scoring. He was truly Hampton’s most explosive player in recent memory.