NORFOLK, Va., March 12, 2024 – The Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention (MEAC) is happy to announce that Norfolk, Virginia, will stay the host metropolis for the MEAC Males’s and Girls’s Basketball Match till 2027. The upcoming event, scheduled for March 13-16, shall be held on the Norfolk Scope Enviornment, reaffirming the Metropolis’s dedication to being the host venue. This partnership extension is efficient after the 2023-24 season. MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills conveyed her enthusiasm in regards to the resolution, stating, “We’re thrilled to announce that the MEAC Council of Chief Government Officers and membership have chosen Norfolk, Virginia, to stay because the host metropolis for the 2025, 2026, and 2027 MEAC Males’s and Girls’s Basketball Match. This yr will mark the twelfth event the event has been hosted in Norfolk, and we sit up for persevering with our partnership with the town, showcasing the thrill of the video games, and highlighting the fan actions that make this event so particular. We’re grateful to Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Alexander, his employees, and Metropolis Council Members for offering an impressive expertise for the MEAC and our followers yr in and yr out.”
The Metropolis of Norfolk, additionally house to the MEAC’s headquarters and member establishment Norfolk State College, has hosted the event since 2013. Norfolk served because the event’s host web site from 1991-1993 and once more in 1997. Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander, Ph.D. expressed his enthusiasm for the prolonged partnership, “Norfolk has proudly served because the host metropolis for the Mid-Japanese Athletic Convention since 2013 and we sit up for persevering with that partnership for the subsequent three years. As house to each MEAC and Norfolk State College, Norfolk is the perfect location for this event as a definite and dynamic vacation spot providing a novel expertise for the alumni, scholar athletes, and followers.” The MEAC Basketball Match has been held in numerous cities, together with in Winston-Salem, N.C., Durham, N.C., Greensboro, N.C., Charlotte, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Tallahassee, Fla., Richmond, Va., and Raleigh, N.C. The MEAC Basketball Match, that includes eight Division I traditionally black schools and universities, is a single-elimination championship, could have its quarterfinal and semifinal video games streamed stay on ESPN+. The lads’s championship shall be broadcast stay on ESPN2, and the ladies’s finale shall be stay on ESPN+ and air on ESPNU the next day. Each the boys’s and ladies’s champions will safe an automated bid to the NCAA Division I Match.
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