CIAA Women’s Tournament Celebrates 50 Years of Basketball Excellence In Style.
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA®), the nation’s oldest historically Black athletic conference, today announced that the 2025 Food Lion CIAA Basketball Tournament Early Bird Tickets are now on sale for a limited time. Following the tremendous success of the recent 2024 tournament, featuring numerous sold out events, the 2025 Food Lion CIAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament will return to the CFG Arena in Charm City from February 25th to March 1st, 2025.
2025 will mark 50 years of the CIAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, which has been held annually since its inception in 1975. This year’s celebration will include a number of memorable events, giveaways and promotions to commemorate the historic event and players, coaches and teams from the conference’s 13 member institutions. February is CIAA and the CIAA and Visit Baltimore will again host 26 Basketball showdowns, Fan Fest, step shows, parties, Career Expo, Education Day, A-list performances and so much more!
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About the CIAA:
Founded in 1912, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is the first, and longest running, African American athletic conference in the U.S. and one of the most recognized conferences in Division II. The CIAA conducts 14 championships attended by more than 150,000 fans from around the country. The Basketball Tournament has been honored as a 2019 Champion of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism by Sports Destination Management, the leading publication with the largest circulation of sports event planners and tournament directors in the sports tourism market, for both 2018 and 2019.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the CIAA is governed by the Presidents and Chancellors of its 13 member institutions: Bowie State University, Bluefield State University, Claflin University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, Johnson C. Smith University, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Livingstone College, Saint Augustine’s University, Shaw University, Virginia State University, Virginia Union University, and Winston-Salem State University. For more information on the CIAA, visit theciaa.com, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
