A Championship HBCU Basketball Team Finally Gets Their White House Moment More Than 65 Years After Their Victory

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 9, 2024

A championship HBCU men’s basketball team finally got their visit to the White House more than 60 years after their big wins.

The Tennessee A&I Tigers of Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University in Nashville made history in 1957, becoming “the first HBCU team to win a national championship,” and then “again by becoming the first college team to win three back-to-back national titles from

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