North Carolina A&T and Southern broke NCAA event floor once they made the primary look by an HBCU within the DI males’s basketball event’s spherical of 64 in 1985, the primary 12 months of the expanded bracket. Since then, a complete of 19 HBCU males’s basketball packages have performed within the first spherical of the March Insanity bracket.
Let’s dive in to the previous efficiency of the HBCU packages through the first spherical.
College breakdown
Texas Southern has essentially the most spherical of 64 appearances of any HBCU males’s basketball program, however has but to win a recreation. The Tigers final appeared within the spherical of 64 in 2022. Grambling State grew to become the most recent HBCU to make its debut look within the spherical of 64 through the 2024 season.
This is a have a look at the looks of HBCUs within the spherical of 64.
# of Appearances | HBCU |
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8 | Texas Southern |
7 | North Carolina A&T, Southern |
5 | Hampton, South Carolina State |
4 | Mississippi Valley State |
3 | Coppin State, Jackson State, Norfolk State |
2 | Alabama State, Florida A&M, Howard, Morgan State, Tennessee State |
1 | Alcorn State, Delaware State, Grambling State North Carolina Central, Prairie View A&M |
The one HBCUs to win a spherical of 64 recreation are Southern, Coppin State, Hampton and Norfolk State. Alcorn State does have a first-round win, however that got here in 1980 when there have been solely 32 groups within the bracket. Each different HBCU males’s NCAA event win got here within the opening or First 4 spherical.
This is a have a look at the data of HBCUs, by faculty, within the spherical of 64.
College | Document | Win % | Final APP |
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Alabama State | 0-2 | .000 | 2004 |
Alcorn State | 0-1 | .000 | 1999 |
Coppin State | 1-2 | .333 | 1997 |
Delaware State | 0-1 | .000 | 2005 |
Florida A&M | 0-2 | .000 | 2004 |
Grambling State | 0-1 | .000 | 2024 |
Hampton | 1-4 | .200 | 2016 |
Howard | 0-2 | .000 | 2023 |
Jackson State | 0-3 | .000 | 2007 |
Mississippi Valley State | 0-4 | .000 | 2008 |
Morgan State | 0-2 | .000 | 2010 |
Norfolk State | 1-2 | .333 | 2022 |
North Carolina A&T | 0-7 | .000 | 2013 |
North Carolina Central | 0-1 | .000 | 2014 |
Prairie View A&M | 0-1 | .000 | 1998 |
South Carolina State | 0-5 | .000 | 2003 |
Southern | 1-6 | .142 | 2013 |
Tennessee State | 0-2 | .000 | 1994 |
Texas Southern | 0-8 | .000 | 2022 |
Convention breakdown
This is a breakdown of NCAA event efficiency by HBCU convention.
Convention | appearances | Wins | Losses | Win % |
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MEAC | 31 | 3 | 28 | .096 |
SWAC | 27 | 1 | 26 | .037 |
Tennessee State (OVC) | 2 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
Complete | 58 | 4 | 54 | .069 |
Seeding
HBCUs have usually been seeded in the direction of the underside of the bracket because the spherical of 64 started. Of the 60 occasions HBCUs have participated within the spherical of 64, they’ve been seeded sixteenth — the bottom potential seed — 34 occasions.
One of the best seed any HBCU has had coming into the Spherical of 64 has been No. 13, held by Southern in 1993. The Jaguars received their first spherical recreation with a 93-78 win over No. 4 Georgia Tech.
Seed | Complete seeds | % Seeded | Seed Document | Win % |
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No. 13 | 1 | .017 | 1-0 | 1.000 |
No. 14 | 4 | .069 | 0-4 | .000 |
No. 15 | 21 | .362 | 3-18 | .143 |
No. 16 | 34 | .567 | 0-34 | .000 |
Sport outcomes
Listed here are the outcomes from each spherical of 64 recreation from an HBCU males’s basketball program
Yr | College | Seed | Opponent | Outcome | Rating |
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2024 | Grambling State | No. 16 | No. 1 Purdue | L | 78-50 |
2023 | Howard | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 68-96 |
2022 | Texas Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 56–83 |
Norfolk State | No. 16 | No. 1 Baylor | L | 49–85 | |
2021 | Texas Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 Michigan | L | 66–82 |
Norfolk State | No. 16 | No. 1 Gonzaga | L | 55–98 | |
2018 | Texas Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 Xavier | L | 83–102 |
2017 | Texas Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 North Carolina | L | 64–103 |
2016 | Hampton | No. 16 | No. 1 Virginia | L | 45–81 |
2015 | Texas Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 Arizona | L | 72–93 |
Hampton | No. 16 | No. 1 Kentucky | L | 56–79 | |
2014 | North Carolina Central | No. 14 | No. 3 Iowa State | L | 75–93 |
2013 | Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 Gonzaga | L | 58–64 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 16 | No. 1 Louisville | L | 48–79 | |
2012 | Norfolk State | No. 15 | No. 2 Missouri | W | 86–84 |
2011 | Hampton | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 45–87 |
2010 | Morgan State | No. 15 | No. 2 West Virginia | L | 50–77 |
2009 | Morgan State | No. 15 | No. 2 Oklahoma | L | 54–82 |
2008 | Mississippi Valley State | No. 16 | No. 1 UCLA | L | 29–70 |
2007 | Jackson State | No. 16 | No. 1 Florida | L | 69–112 |
2006 | Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 54–70 |
2005 | Delaware State | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 46–57 |
2004 | Alabama State | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 61–96 |
Florida A&M | No. 16 | No. 1 Kentucky | L | 76–96 | |
2003 | South Carolina State | No. 16 | No. 1 Oklahoma | L | 54–71 |
2002 | Hampton | No. 15 | No. 2 Connecticut | L | 67–78 |
2001 | Alabama State | No. 16 | No. 1 Michigan State | L | 35–69 |
Hampton | No. 15 | No. 2 Iowa State | W | 58–57 | |
2000 | Jackson State | No. 16 | No. 1 Arizona | L | 47–71 |
South Carolina State | No. 16 | No. 1 Stanford | L | 65–84 | |
1999 | Alcorn State | No. 15 | No. 2 Stanford | L | 57–69 |
Florida A&M | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 58–99 | |
1998 | Prairie View A&M | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 52–110 |
South Carolina State | No. 15 | No. 2 Kentucky | L | 67–82 | |
1997 | Jackson State | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 64–78 |
Coppin State | No. 15 | No. 2 South Carolina | W | 78–65 | |
1996 | Mississippi Valley State | No. 15 | No. 2 Georgetown | L | 56–93 |
South Carolina State | No. 15 | No. 2 Kansas | L | 54–92 | |
1995 | Texas Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 Arkansas | L | 78–79 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 16 | No. 1 Wake Forest | L | 47–79 | |
1994 | Texas Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 Duke | L | 70–82 |
Tennessee State | No. 14 | No. 3 Kentucky | L | 70–83 | |
North Carolina A&T | No. 16 | No. 1 Arkansas | L | 79–94 | |
1993 | Southern | No. 13 | No. 4 Georgia Tech | W | 93–78 |
Tennessee State | No. 15 | No. 2 Seton Corridor | L | 59–81 | |
Coppin State | No. 15 | No. 2 Cincinnati | L | 66–93 | |
1992 | Mississippi Valley State | No. 16 | No. 1 Ohio State | L | 56–83 |
Howard | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 67–100 | |
1990 | Texas Southern | No. 14 | No. 3 Georgetown | L | 52–70 |
Coppin State | No. 15 | No. 2 Syracuse | L | 48–70 | |
1989 | Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 North Carolina | L | 79–93 |
South Carolina State | No. 15 | No. 2 Duke | L | 69–90 | |
1988 | Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 Kentucky | L | 84–99 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 14 | No. 3 Syracuse | L | 55–69 | |
1987 | Southern | No. 15 | No. 2 Temple | L | 56–75 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 15 | No. 2 Alabama | L | 71–88 | |
1986 | Mississippi Valley State | No. 16 | No. 1 Duke | L | 78–85 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 16 | No. 1 Kansas | L | 46–71 | |
1985 | Southern | No. 16 | No. 1 St. John’s | L | 59–83 |
North Carolina A&T | No. 16 | No. 1 Oklahoma | L | 83–96 |
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