A trio of ACC applications in addition to Energy 4 opponents from the SEC and Huge Ten are doubling an HBCU program’s income. North Carolina Central College is on observe to double its males’s basketball assure income within the 2025-26 season. That enhance stems from a stacked non-conference schedule this upcoming winter.
Males’s Basketball Schedule Driving Development
A June 23 presentation to the NCCU Board of Trustees outlines the projected enhance. This system expects to spice up assure income from $325,000 to $670,000. The bounce comes because the Eagles put together to face 5 major-conference opponents: NC State, UNC, and UVA from the ACC; Kentucky from the SEC; and Penn State from the Huge Ten.
NCCU will journey to NC State on Nov. 3, UVA on Nov. 7, App State on Nov. 9, UNC on Nov. 14, USC Upstate on Nov. 22, James Madison on Dec. 3, Kentucky on Dec. 9, and Penn State on Dec. 29.
This isn’t unfamiliar floor for the Eagles. In 2013, NCCU shocked NC State with a program-defining win. The HBCU has additionally saved contests shut in opposition to UNC in recent times, proving it could compete with top-tier applications.
Further Financial savings and Fundraising Progress
Strategic scheduling can be saving cash. By staying inside driving distance, NCCU expects to save lots of $80,000 in flight prices for males’s and girls’s basketball mixed. The college has already raised $316,963 towards its $552,000 fundraising objective for FY24 and FY25. It has additionally generated $125,177.80 in whole income over that span.
Ladies’s Basketball Faces High Competitors
The ladies’s basketball crew additionally faces a robust non-conference schedule. The Eagles will journey to UNC, Wake Forest, South Carolina, and different applications from main conferences. These matchups mirror a push for elite competitors whereas protecting journey prices down.
Pushing Ahead in Division I
Fifteen years into its Division I journey, NCCU continues to embrace challenges. Going through a number of Energy 4 colleges offers the HBCU publicity, expertise, and monetary progress—key elements in right this moment’s faculty sports activities panorama.
