Who do those teams play out of conference? I always read that Coppin's athletic department revenue is such that they have to use most of their non-con schedule to go play power-level programs just to get the money they need to keep their other sports funded. Maybe times have changed.
From what I can tell (I looked at Coppin and 2 other top programs in the conference) it looks like they typically schedule between 3-6 P5 or decently high quality opponents (I'm including mid-majors that have had recent success like Loyola-Chicago.) But because they only play 16 conference games they're free to schedule more OOC games, and they typically schedule around 15 or 16 of them. Those extra 5 or 6 games are usually against top-tier opponents, but the remaining 10 are against smaller programs.
So a good program in MEAC usually gets either 0 or 1 win against a top tier program, and then splits the portion of their OOC schedule versus small programs, while getting at least 12 wins in conference play. That is usually good for 18+ wins.