This past February, the Dillard University Athletics Department announced the addition of a baseball program and the hiring of Trennis Grant as its new head baseball coach. The Dillard baseball program is scheduled to begin playing games opening the HBCU…
HBCU baseball programs, Coppin State, Alabama State, and Southern University received votes in Collegiate Baseball’s 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Top 50 Poll as recently announced by the publication. This is the first time in history that three Historically Black…
The publication Collegiate Baseball recently ranked the Savannah State baseball program in its 2023 NCAA Division II Pre-Season Top 40 Poll. The newspaper listed 65 top Division II teams and ranked Savannah State, a member of the Southern Intercollegiate…
Coppin State’s baseball team received votes in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper 2023 Preseason Poll, which was released on Tuesday. The Eagles join Central Connecticut State as the only Northeast Conference (NEC) programs to receive votes in the Top 50 Poll.…
The National College Baseball Hall of Fame has announced its 2022 class of inductees and it includes two HBCU greats from Southern University, Roger Cador and Rickie Weeks. After two years of of virtual inductions, this year’s class will be…
Former Stillman College baseball coach Donny Crawford will be inducted into the Stillman inaugural Hall of Fame class on February 17, 2023, for guiding the Tiger baseball program to unprecedented success. After being hired in 2005 as the head baseball…
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) recently announced the restructuring of the nation’s oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) conference, when it held its annual Board of Directors meeting this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. The meeting resulted in…
Jackson State University baseball will open the 2023 season in the inaugural Cactus Jack HBCU Classic, in partnership with the Houston Astros and the Cactus Jack Foundation. The opening weekend event will be played Friday – Sunday, February 17-19 at…
The Clark Atlanta University baseball program is working hard, and their fall baseball league is underway. The Panthers return most of their core players and added a couple transfers and freshmen to a group that went from being dead last…
Wilberforce University holds the distinction of being the nation’s oldest private, historically black university owned and operated by African Americans, founded in 1856. The baseball program, too, is one of the oldest among HBCUs, dating back to the late-nineteenth century and…
