About six years after it was originally expected, Hampton University officially joined the Colonial Athletic Association this afternoon. The move puts the Pirates outside of the HBCU universe for the second time in four years, after leaving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for the Big South in 2018.
Hampton's move drops the hammer on the MEAC in several ways. First, it all but dashes any hope that the Pirates will soon find their way back to the conference whose profiled it helped to build in the mid-1990s and early 2000s with multiple titles in football and men's and women's basketball. But it deepens the gash of historically Black conferences all around the country growing while the MEAC faces waves of questions about its future.
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