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2018–19 South Carolina State Bulldogs basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ60776460 ↗
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The 2018–19 South Carolina State Bulldogs basketball team represented South Carolina State University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by 6th-year head coach Murray Garvin, and played their home games at SHM Memorial Center in Orangeburg, South Carolina as member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).

The Bulldogs finished the season 8–26 overall, 5–11 in MEAC play, finishing in a tie for ninth place. In the MEAC tournament, they defeated Maryland Eastern Shore in the first round before falling to top-seeded Norfolk State in the quarterfinals.

Previous season

The Bulldogs finished the 2017–18 season 10–22, 6–10 in MEAC play, to finish in tenth place. They lost to Morgan State in the first round of the MEAC tournament.

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“2018–19 South Carolina State Bulldogs basketball team” enters the record as american college basketball season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, Carolina and State can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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