HBCU basketball took over the Saturday afternoon spotlight for the historic HBCU Showcase doubleheader featuring two of HBCU hoops’ biggest rivalries. North Carolina A&T vs North Carolina Central and Hampton vs Howard were televised back to back on the CBS Sports Network on Saturday afternoon as HBCU basketball was broadcast to millions of homes across the country on the CBS Sports HBCU Showcase.
North Carolina A&T’s men’s basketball team played its best game of the season against longtime rival North Carolina Central University (NCCU), taking down the visitors from Durham with an 85-72 victory.
“You have to be careful as a coach the way you approach a game like this,” Aggies coach Monté Ross said about the historic HBCU rivalry. “Every game is important, but there is significance to rivalry games like this game. I didn’t want them to be out there and getting emotionally drunk, where they’re just flying on emotion. And then when that emotion subsides, it’s a basketball game to play.”