The 2018–19 Delaware State Hornets men's basketball team represented Delaware State University in the

2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four in Minneapolis on April 8, 2019. Practices officially began on Septembe ...

. They played their home games at Memorial Hall in

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, and were led by 1st-year head coach

Eric Skeeters Eric Skeeters is an American college basketball coach who was most recently head coach of the Delaware State Hornets men's basketball team. Playing career Skeeters played basketball and lacrosse at Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsvi ...

Previous season

The

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finished the 2017–18 season 4–28, 2–14 in the MEAC play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the MEAC tournament to

North Carolina A&T North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, historically black land-grant research university in Greensboro, North Caro ...

. They lost every game on the road and on a neutral court, with both of their non-conference victories coming against non-Division I schools. They had the dubious distinction of finishing the season 351st in RPI out of the 351 teams in the NCAA. On February 22, 2018, head coach

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was fired and associate head coach Keith Johnson was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season. On July 26, 5 months after Walker was fired, the school hired UMBC assistant

for the head coaching job.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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