A complete history of HBCU men’s basketball in the NCAA tournament’s round of 64

North Carolina A&T and Southern broke NCAA match floor after they made the primary look by an HBCU within the DI males’s basketball match’s spherical of 64 in 1985, the primary yr of the expanded bracket. Since then, a complete of 19 HBCU males’s basketball applications have performed within the first spherical of the March Insanity bracket.

Let’s dive in to the previous efficiency of the HBCU applications throughout the first spherical.

Faculty 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 turned the newest HBCU to make its debut look within the spherical of 64 throughout the 2024 season.

Here is a take a look at the looks of HBCUs within the spherical of 64.

# of Appearances	HBCU
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 match win got here within the opening or First 4 spherical.

Here is a take a look at the data of HBCUs, by college, within the spherical of 64.

Faculty	Report	Win %	Final APP
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

Here is a breakdown of NCAA match efficiency by HBCU convention.

Convention	appearances	Wins	Losses	Win %
MEAC	31	3	28	.096
SWAC	27	1	26	.037
Tennessee State (OVC)	2	0	2	.000
Whole	58	4	54	.069

Seeding

HBCUs have sometimes been seeded in the direction of the underside of the bracket for the reason that spherical of 64 started. Of the 60 instances HBCUs have participated within the spherical of 64, they’ve been seeded sixteenth — the bottom potential seed — 34 instances.

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	Whole seeds	% Seeded	Seed Report	Win %
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

12 months	Faculty	Seed	Opponent	Outcome	Rating
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

Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s 2010 season was vacated for NCAA violations