Saying that the convention needed to develop the basketball match, SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland introduced that the league will maintain the occasion in Atlanta beginning in 2025.
At SWAC soccer media on Tuesday, McClelland indicated that the basketball match is transferring from Birmingham, Alabama, to the Gateway Middle in Faculty Park, Georgia, subsequent 12 months.
The transfer will even deliver a couple of new format. In 2025, 10 males’s and ladies’s groups shall be match qualifiers earlier than shifting to 12 groups per aspect in 2026.
McClelland stated that the transition to a brand new location is extra than simply about basketball.
“We’re going to have all forms of occasions,” he stated. “We’re speaking about blockading the lodges. It will be inside strolling distance (to the world). We’re going to have live shows. We’re going to have day events.
“We’ve talked about increasing our match in making it a bigger occasion. Effectively, that’s going to begin in 2025.”
Gateway Middle Area, a 3,500-seat venue for basketball, is dwelling to the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA.
