In a recap of its newest Board of Administrators assembly, the CIAA alluded to a possible change of surroundings for his or her convention basketball match.
The convention introduced that in January 2025, they’ll start a bidding course of for the positioning of the 2027 match and past. They count on to announce the subsequent website earlier than the 2026 basketball match.
This comes at some point after the CIAA introduced that its soccer championship recreation would transfer from Salem, Virginia, to Durham, North Carolina, starting in 2025 and persevering with by at the least 2027.
Baltimore, the present website of the CIAA Basketball Event after 14 years in Charlotte, has made a robust case for persevering with to host the match.
“Baltimore has positioned themselves as sturdy match host, as indicated within the by the upward trajectory of its financial affect throughout match week,” the convention stated in its Board of Administrators assembly recap. “The financial affect over the previous three years at present stands at $81.7M.”
The 2026 CIAA match will mark the 80-year anniversary of the occasion and would be the fifth since returning to town of Baltimore (Baltimore beforehand hosted the 1952 match).
