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Friday, November 27
Harrisonburg, Va.
12 p.m.
James Madison University
vs
Norfolk State
Dukes Welcome Norfolk State for Friday Tilt
11/26/2020 7:25:00 PM | Men's Basketball
James Madison Dukes (1-0) vs. Norfolk State Spartans (0-0)
November 27, 2020Â -- 12 p.m.
Harrisonburg, Va. -- Atlantic Union Bank Center
Game Links
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QUICK HITS
- The James Madison Dukes will look to open the 2020-21 season with back-to-back wins on Friday afternoon, when the Dukes welcome Norfolk State to Harrisonburg for a noon tip at the Atlantic Union Bank Center.
- The Dukes started a new era of basketball with a comfortable win on Wednesday afternoon, topping Limestone University in an 89-55 victory at home.
- The win was the first in the Dukes' new home and the first for new head coach Mark Byington, who arrived in Harrisonburg early in 2020 after seven seasons at Georgia Southern, where he amassed a 131-97 record and three straight 20-win seasons.
- Seniors Matt Lewis and Zach Jacobs return to lead a new-look JMU squad that welcomes 10 newcomers and returns just five players from last season's 9-21 campaign that saw the Dukes go 2-16 in league play.Â
- On Wednesday, six different James Madison players scored in double figures for the first time in nearly a decade, with freshman Justin Amadi leading the way with 16 points on 8-of-8 shooting from the floor.
- Freshman Terell Strickland made a historic debut for the Dukes, chipping in four points and eight assists without a turnover, but racked up 10 steals, setting new JMU and CAA records with the third-most steals ever recorded in Division I by a freshman.
- As a team, the Dukes broke their own program record for single-game steals with 21, besting their mark of 20, set against Wilmington College on Jan. 17, 1976, the year before the Dukes moved to Division I. The program mark since the Division I transition was 15, set on Dec. 5, 2012 against East Tennessee State and matched last season against Shenandoah.
- While the Dukes were picked to finish ninth in the Colonial Athletic Association in this season's preseason poll, Lewis was named the CAA Preseason Player of the Year, the first Duke to earn that nod in the preseason.
- Norfolk State returns 10 letterwinners from its 2019-20 squad that went 16-15 (12-4 MEAC) and secured the No. 2 seed in the MEAC Tournament before its cancellation due to COVID-19.
- According to research conducted by East Carolina University, the Spartans return the seventh-most letterwinners in Division I this season, led by Preseason Second Team All-MEAC pick Joe Bryant, Jr., who averaged 12.0 ppg and 3.8 rpg last season.
- The Dukes and Spartans have met three times in men's basketball, with the most recent meeting coming during the 2014-15 season, when Norfolk State bested JMU in a 74-71 victory at the JMU Convocation Center.
- All three - now four - of the matchups between the in-state foes to date have come in Harrisonburg.
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