PRINCESS ANNE, Maryland -

Maryland Eastern Shore's Bakari Copeland (Decatur, Georgia) has been selected as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball player of the week after a strong performance at the Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational last week.

He was also honored as the CollegeSportsMadness.com MEAC Player of the Week. College Sports Madness identifies the players who have had the greatest impact to their team from each conference and on a national basis each Monday.

Copeland averaged 17 points and six rebounds in three contests last week as the Hawks finished 1-2 overall. The senior shot 44 percent from the field, 54.4 percent from the 3-point arc, 73.3 percent from the free throw line along with averaging two assists. In the non-conference win at University of Texas El Paso last Wednesday, Copeland scored a game-high 27 points along with seven rebounds on 53.8 percent shooting.

The performance against the Miners included a career-high in points.

The Hawks (2-11) fell at American (3-8) on Monday, before topping UTEP (2-9) in the tourney opener Wednesday and dropping the event's title game to Akron (10-3) on Thursday.

Eastern Shore is on a break for the holidays and will return to the court Jan. 2, at 6 p.m., when it hosts University of Valley Forge a National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Division II opponent in its third year of provisional membership in NCAA Division III.

Games can be heard locally on Fox Sports Radio 960 AM WTGM or on www.EasternShoreHawks.com. Will DeBoer and David Byrd will have the call Jan. 2 from the William P. Hytche Athletic Center on The Shore Sports Network.

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