Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC /ˈmiːæk/ MEE-ak) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).^[1]

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

Association	NCAA
Founded	1970
Commissioner	Sonja O. Stills (since 2022)
Sports fielded	14 men's: 6 women's: 8
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FCS
No. of teams	8
Headquarters	Norfolk, Virginia
Region	South Atlantic, Middle Atlantic
Official website	meacsports.com
Locations

Currently, the MEAC has automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postseason play in men's basketball (since 1981), women's basketball (since 1982), softball (since 1995), men's and women's tennis (since 1998), and volleyball (since 1994). Bowling was officially sanctioned as a MEAC-governed sport in 1999. Before that season, the MEAC was the first conference to secure NCAA sanctioning for women's bowling by adopting the club sport prior to the 1996–97 school year.

History

Locations of eight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference members

In 1969, a group whose members were long associated with interscholastic athletics met in Durham, North Carolina for the purpose of discussing the organization of a new conference. After the formulation of a committee, and their research reported, seven institutions, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State College, agreed to become the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.^[2] South Carolina State had been a longtime member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while the other charter members had been longtime members of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The conference's main goals were to establish and supervise an intercollegiate athletic program among a group of educational institutions that shared the same academic standards and philosophy of co-curricular activities and seek status as a Division I conference for all of its sports.^{[citation needed]}

The conference was confirmed in 1970, and had its first season of competition in football in 1971. The MEAC has had three full-time commissioners.^[2] In 1978, the MEAC selected its first full-time commissioner, Kenneth A. Free, who served as commissioner until he resigned in 1995. He was succeeded by Charles S. Harris, who served at the position until 2002. On September 1, 2002, Dennis E. Thomas became the conference's commissioner. He retired on December 31, 2021. Sonja O. Stills became the first female commissioner of the MEAC on January 1, 2022. She is also the only female commissioner of a Division I HBCU athletic conference.

The MEAC experienced its first expansion in 1979 when Bethune–Cookman College (now Bethune–Cookman University) and Florida A&M University were admitted as new members. That same year, founding members Morgan State University, North Carolina Central University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore withdrew from the conference. All three schools eventually returned to the conference; Maryland Eastern Shore rejoined in 1981, Morgan State in 1984, and North Carolina Central in 2010.

On June 8, 1978, the MEAC was classified as a Division I conference by the NCAA. Prior to that year, the league operated as a Division II conference. The following month the MEAC received an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

In 1984, membership in the MEAC again changed, as Florida A&M chose to leave. The university returned to the conference two years later. Coppin State College, now Coppin State University, joined the conference in 1985. The MEAC found some stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997, respectively. For the next ten years, the MEAC remained an 11-member conference. In 2007, former CIAA member Winston-Salem State University was granted membership, but announced on September 11, 2009, that it would return to Division II at the end of 2009–10 and apply to return to the CIAA before ever becoming a full member of the MEAC.^[3]

North Carolina Central University rejoined the conference effective July 1, 2010.^[4][5] NCCU was one of seven founding member institutions of the MEAC, but withdrew from the conference in 1979, opting to remain a Division II member when the conference reclassified to Division I.^[4]

Savannah State University was announced as the newest member of the MEAC on March 10, 2010.^[5] Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006 but faced an NCAA probationary period soon after. Membership was then deferred until the completion of the imposed probation period, which ended in May 2009. Savannah State then resubmitted their application for membership again in 2009 and was finally granted probationary membership status.^[5] On September 8, 2011, the university was confirmed as a full MEAC member.^[6]

While the MEAC has had no new full members since then, the conference added an associate member in 2014 when Augusta University, then known as Georgia Regents University, a Division II institution with Division I programs in men's and women's golf, joined for men's golf.^[7] Augusta became the MEAC's first associate member and first non-HBCU with any type of membership. The conference has since added two more non-HBCU associate members, with Monmouth University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) joining for bowling in 2018.^[8]

In April 2017, Savannah State announced that it would drop to Division II effective with the 2019–20 school year.^[9] In November 2017, Hampton announced they would leave the MEAC to join the Big South Conference beginning with the 2018–19 season.^[10]

In February 2020 North Carolina A&T announced departing MEAC to join Big South Conference effective July 2021. Within few months, in June 2020, Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman also announced that they will leave the MEAC and join the SWAC starting in July 2021. As a result, the MEAC will have eight members remaining for 2021, with only six of its members sponsoring football. The MEAC has hired a consulting firm to help assess its current schools and to help it identify potential institutions for addition to the conference.^[11] The conference plans to operate with eight current members, starting 2021 until further expansion, in a compact geographical footprint removing North and South divisions.

In May 2021, multiple websites that report on HBCU sports indicated that the MEAC had reached out to two Division II HBCUs about their interest in transitioning to D-I and joining the MEAC. Kentucky State University and Virginia State University, respectively members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, confirmed that they had discussed possible membership with the MEAC and had commissioned feasibility studies on moving to Division I. Officials at both schools stated that they were considering the move, but would not commit to any change. One report also indicated that Chicago State University, a predominantly African-American school but not an HBCU, had lobbied the MEAC regarding membership. CSU was scheduled to leave the Western Athletic Conference, a league in which it is a major geographic outlier, in July 2022 to become an independent. According to this report, the MEAC had offered CSU associate membership in one sport, but was lukewarm to CSU becoming a full member because it does not sponsor football and is well outside the MEAC's geographic footprint.^[12][13]

In July 2022, the Northeast Conference (NEC) announced a partnership with the MEAC in which MEAC schools sponsoring baseball and men's and women's golf would become NEC affiliate members in their respective sports beginning in the 2022-23 season.^[14]

Member schools

Current full members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors
Coppin State University	Baltimore, Maryland	1900	1985	Public	2,724	Eagles
Delaware State University	Dover, Delaware	1891	1970	Public[a]	6,200	Hornets
Howard University	Washington, D.C.	1867	1970	Private	12,065	Bison/Lady Bison
University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Princess Anne, Maryland[b]	1886	1970; 1981[c]	Public	2,333	Hawks
Morgan State University	Baltimore, Maryland	1867	1970; 1984[d]	Public	7,763	Bears
Norfolk State University	Norfolk, Virginia	1935	1997	Public	5,616	Spartans
North Carolina Central University	Durham, North Carolina	1910	1970; 2010[e]	Public	7,553	Eagles
South Carolina State University	Orangeburg, South Carolina	1896	1970	Public	2,649	Bulldogs/Lady Bulldogs

Notes

1. Delaware State is officially chartered as a "privately-governed, state-assisted" institution. This status is broadly similar to that of New York State's statutory colleges, most of which are housed at Cornell University, or institutions in Pennsylvania's Commonwealth System of Higher Education.
2. The UMES campus has a Princess Anne mailing address, but completely lies in unincorporated Somerset County.
3. Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) left the MEAC after the 1978–79 season, while competing for football as an associate member during the 1979–80 season before dropping the sport altogether. UMES rejoined the MEAC effective with the 1981–82 season as a full member that no longer had a football program.^[15]
4. Morgan State left the MEAC after the 1978–79 season, while competing for football as an associate member during the 1979–80 season, before rejoining effective with the 1984–85 season.
5. North Carolina Central left the MEAC after the 1978–79 season, while competing for football as an associate member during the 1979–80 season, before rejoining effective with the 2010–11 season.

Associate members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors	MEAC sport	Primary conference
North Carolina A&T State University	Greensboro, North Carolina	1891	2021–22[a]	13,322	Aggies		bowling (w)	Coastal
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham, Alabama	1966	2018–19	20,902	Blazers			The American

Notes

1. North Carolina A&T was a full member from 1970 to 2021 before joining the Big South Conference.

Former full members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Nickname	Colors	Subsequent conference	Current conference
Bethune–Cookman University	Daytona Beach, Florida	1904	1979	2021	Private	Wildcats		SWAC
Florida A&M University[a]	Tallahassee, Florida	1887	1979; 1986	1984; 2021	Public	Rattlers & Lady Rattlers		SWAC
Hampton University	Hampton, Virginia	1868	1995	2018	Private	Pirates		Big South	Coastal
North Carolina A&T State University[b]	Greensboro, North Carolina	1891	1970	2021	Public	Aggies		Big South	Coastal
Savannah State University	Savannah, Georgia	1890	2010	2019		Tigers and Lady Tigers		SIAC[c]
Winston-Salem State University[d]	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	1892	2007	2010		Rams		CIAA[c]

Notes

1. Florida A&M left the MEAC completely for two seasons from 1984 to 1985 to 1985–86 and competed as an NCAA D-I Independent after a disagreement with the MEAC office over the playing of the rivalry game between Florida A&M and Bethune–Cookman University when FAMU refused to play conference mate BCU at a neutral site in Tampa in 1983 and the game was not played again in 1984. Florida A&M returned all sports to the MEAC effective the 1986–87 school year (with football returning later on, effective the 1987–88 school year). FAMU football left the conference after the 2003 fall season (2003–04 school year) during an attempt to move up to Division I-A (now FBS) with all other sports remaining in the MEAC. Financial difficulties halted the move after the 2004 fall season (2004–05 school year), at which time FAMU football returned back to the MEAC during the 2005 fall season (2005–06 school year).^[16]
2. North Carolina A&T remains as a MEAC associate member for women's bowling.
3. Currently an NCAA Division II athletic conference.
4. Winston–Salem State University was a transitional member and never attained full membership in the MEAC or NCAA Division I before returning to Division II and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) after the 2009–10 school year, due to financial difficulties. They were scheduled to begin full membership and gain access to NCAA tournaments in 2011.^[17][18]

Former associate members

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type	Nickname	Colors	MEAC sport	Primary conference	Subsequent conference
Augusta University	Augusta, Georgia	1785	2014–15	2020–21	Public	Jaguars		Golf (M)	Peach Belt[a]	Southland
Monmouth University	West Long Branch, New Jersey	1933	2018–19	2024–25	Private	Hawks		Bowling	Coastal	Northeast

Notes

1. Currently an NCAA Division II athletic conference.

Membership timeline

Full members Full members (non-football) Assoc. members (football only) Assoc. member (women's bowling) Other Conference Other Conference

Facilities

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity
Coppin State	Non-football school[a]		Physical Education Complex	4,100[19]
Delaware State	Alumni Stadium	7,193[20]	Memorial Hall	1,800[21]
Howard	William H. Greene Stadium	10,000[22]	Burr Gymnasium	2,700[23]
Maryland–Eastern Shore	Non-football school[b][24]		Hytche Athletic Center	5,500[25]
Morgan State	Hughes Stadium	10,000	Talmadge L. Hill Field House	4,000
Norfolk State	William "Dick" Price Stadium	30,000[26]	Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall	4,500[27]
North Carolina Central	O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium	10,000[28]	McDougald–McLendon Gymnasium	3,000[29]
South Carolina State	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium	20,000[30]	SHM Memorial Center	3,000[31]

1. Coppin State has a club football team that competes in the Mid Atlantic Conference of the National Club Football Association. This team does compete at an on-campus facility.
2. Maryland Eastern Shore has a club football team that competes in the Mid Atlantic Conference of the National Club Football Association. The team has an on-campus field, but the facility has no seating.

Apparel

School	Provider
Coppin State	Nike
Delaware State	Nike
Howard University	Jordan, Curry Brand (golf only)
University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Nike
Morgan State	Under Armour
Norfolk State	Nike
North Carolina Central	Nike
South Carolina State	Nike

Sports

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) sponsors championship competition in six men's and eight women's NCAA-sanctioned sports.

Teams in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Basketball	8	8
Bowling	-	8
Cross country	8	8
Football	6	-
Softball	-	8
Tennis	6	8
Track and field (indoor)	8	8
Track and field (outdoor)	8	8
Volleyball	-	8

Men's sponsored sports by school

School	Basketball	Cross Country	Football	Tennis	Track & Field (Indoor)	Track & Field (Outdoor)	Total MEAC Sports
Coppin State	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Delaware State	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	5
Howard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
UMES	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	4
Morgan State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Norfolk State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
NC Central	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
SC State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Totals	8	8	6	6	8	8	44

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference which are played by MEAC schools:

School	Baseball	Golf	Soccer	Swimming & Diving	Volleyball	Wrestling
Coppin State	NEC
Delaware State	NEC
Howard		NEC	NEC	NEC
UMES	NEC	NEC			[a]
Morgan State						EIWA
Norfolk State	NEC
NC Central		NEC

1. UMES will add men's volleyball in the 2026 season (2025–26 school year) as an NEC affiliate.

Women's sponsored sports by school

School	Basketball	Bowling	Cross Country	Softball	Tennis	Track & Field (Indoor)	Track & Field (Outdoor)	Volleyball	Total MEAC Sports
Coppin State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Delaware State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Howard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
UMES	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Morgan State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Norfolk State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
NC Central	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
SC State	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Totals	8	6+2[a]	8	8	7	8	8	8	61+2

1. Bowling associates North Carolina A&T and UAB.

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference which are played by MEAC schools:

School	Equestrian[a]	Golf	Lacrosse	Soccer	Swimming & Diving
Delaware State	ECAC/ NCEA	NEC	NEC	NEC	—
Howard	—	NEC	NEC	NEC	NEC
SC State	—	—	—	IND	—
UMES	—	NEC	—	—	—

1. Part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.

Championships

NCAA National championships

School	Nat'l titles	Years
Howard	1	1971[a]• 1974
Maryland-Eastern Shore	3	2008 • 2011 • 2012[32]

1. Howard was later disqualified from their 1971 NCAA soccer championship; however, no team was ever announced as the new champion.

Football

The MEAC, along with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), are the only two Division I conferences whose members are mostly Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In 2015, the MEAC joined the SWAC and Ivy leagues in abstaining from sending their conference champions to the FCS Playoffs. While the conference champion faces off in the Celebration Bowl against the SWAC Champion, the remaining conference members remain eligible for at-large bids for the playoffs.

This is a partial list of the last 10 champions. For the full history, see List of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football champions.

	Record		Ranking
Year	Champions	Conference	Overall	AP/STATS	UPI/Coaches'	Postseason result	Head coach
2010	Bethune-Cookman South Carolina State Florida A&M	7–1 7–1 7–1	10–2 9–3 8–3	No. 15[33] No. 16[33] NR[33]	15[34] 17[34] NR[34]	NCAA Division I Second Round, L 20–45 vs. New Hampshire NCAA Division I First Round, L 16–41 vs. Georgia Southern No Playoff Invite	Brian Jenkins Oliver Pough Joe Taylor
2011	Championship vacated by Norfolk State[Notes1 1][35]
2012	Bethune-Cookman	8–0	9–3	No. 22[36]	23[37]	NCAA Division I First Round, L 14–24 vs. Coastal Carolina	Brian Jenkins
2013	Bethune-Cookman South Carolina State	7–1 7–1	10–3 9–4	No. 16[38] No. 25[38]	No. 16[39] NR	NCAA Division I First Round, L 24–48 vs. Coastal Carolina NCAA Division I First Round, L 20–30 vs. Furman	Brian Jenkins Oliver Pough
2014	Morgan State[Notes1 2][40] Bethune-Cookman North Carolina A&T South Carolina State North Carolina Central	6–2 6–2 6–2 6–2 6–2	7–5 9–3 9–3 8–4 7–5	No. 23[41] NR NR NR NR	No. 22[42] NR NR NR NR	NCAA Division I First Round, L 24–46 vs. Richmond No Playoff invite No Playoff invite No Playoff invite No Playoff invite	Lee Hull Brian Jenkins Rod Broadway Buddy Pough Jerry Mack
2015	North Carolina A&T Bethune-Cookman North Carolina Central	7–1 7–1 7–1	10–2 9–2 8–3	No. 21[43] NR NR	No. 21[44] No. 25[44] NR	Celebration Bowl, W 41–34 vs. Alcorn State No Playoff invite No Playoff invite	Rod Broadway Terry Sims Jerry Mack
2016	North Carolina Central	8–0	9–3	No. 20[45]	No. 22[46]	Celebration Bowl, L 9–10 vs. Grambling State	Jerry Mack
2017	North Carolina A&T	8–0	12–0	No. 8[47]	No. 7[48]	Celebration Bowl, W 21–14 vs. Grambling State	Rod Broadway
2018	North Carolina A&T	7–1	10–2	No. 12[49]	No. 11[50]	Celebration Bowl, W 24–22 vs. Alcorn State	Sam Washington
2019	North Carolina A&T	6–2	9–3	No. 23[49]	No. 22[51]	Celebration Bowl, W 64–44 vs. Alcorn State	Sam Washington
2020-21	Season Suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic[Notes1 3][52][53]
2021	South Carolina State	5–0	6–5	NR	NR	Celebration Bowl, W 31–10 vs. Jackson State	Oliver Pough
2022	North Carolina Central	4–1	10–2	RV	No. 21	Celebration Bowl, W 41–34 OT vs. Jackson State	Trei Oliver
2023	Howard	4–1	6–6	NR	NR	Celebration Bowl, L 26–30 vs. Florida A&M	Larry Scott

1. Norfolk State's 2011 MEAC football championship was vacated as a result of NCAA Violations.
2. As a result of the MEAC football tiebreaker, Morgan State earned the conference's Automatic bid for the NCAA Division I FCS Playoffs.
3. In July 2020, the MEAC announced that it would cancel its fall sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic and announced the league would explore the possibility of playing in the spring. The conference later released a spring schedule, but had to suspend indefinitely, per league bi-laws, when six of the nine football playing schools had opted out of playing.

Celebration Bowl results

Year	MEAC Team		SWAC Team		Attendance	Series
2015	North Carolina A&T Aggies	41	Alcorn State Braves	34	35,528	MEAC 1–0
2016	North Carolina Central Eagles	9	Grambling State Tigers	10	31,096	Tied 1–1
2017	North Carolina A&T Aggies	21	Grambling State Tigers	14	25,873	MEAC 2–1
2018	North Carolina A&T Aggies	24	Alcorn State Braves	22	31,672	MEAC 3–1
2019	North Carolina A&T Aggies	64	Alcorn State Braves	44	32,968	MEAC 4–1
2021	South Carolina State Bulldogs	31	Jackson State Tigers	10	48,653	MEAC 5–1
2022	North Carolina Central Eagles	41	Jackson State Tigers	34 (OT)	49,670	MEAC 6–1
2023	Howard Bison	26	Florida A&M Rattlers	30	41,108	MEAC 6–2

Men's basketball

See also: MEAC men's basketball tournament

On June 8, 1980, the MEAC earned the classification as a Division I conference by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 1981, the MEAC has received a qualifying bid to NCAA post season play in the sport of basketball. In three cases, MEAC schools seeded 15th (Coppin State in 1997, Hampton in 2001, Norfolk State in 2012) defeated second-seeded teams South Carolina, Iowa State and Missouri, respectively, in the NCAA tournament.

Coppin State again made history, as it qualified for the tournament as the first 20-loss team to play in the NCAA Tournament.

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 1972 North Carolina A&T  North Carolina A&T  1973 Maryland Eastern Shore North Carolina A&T 1974 Maryland Eastern Shore Maryland Eastern Shore 1975 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1976 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1977 South Carolina State Morgan State 1978 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1979 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1980 Howard Howard 1981 North Carolina A&T Howard 1982 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1983 Howard North Carolina A&T 1984 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1985 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1986 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1987 Howard North Carolina A&T 1988 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 1989 South Carolina State South Carolina State 1990 Coppin State Coppin State 1991 Coppin State Florida A&M

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 1992 Howard Howard 1993 Coppin State Coppin State 1994 Coppin State North Carolina A&T 1995 Coppin State North Carolina A&T 1996 Coppin State South Carolina State South Carolina State 1997 Coppin State Coppin State 1998 Coppin State South Carolina State 1999 South Carolina State Coppin State Florida A&M 2000 South Carolina State South Carolina State 2001 Hampton Hampton 2002 Hampton Hampton 2003 South Carolina State South Carolina State 2004 South Carolina State Coppin State Florida A&M 2005 Delaware State Delaware State 2006 Delaware State Hampton 2007 Delaware State Florida A&M 2008 Morgan State Coppin State 2009 Morgan State Morgan State

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 2010 Morgan State Morgan State 2011 Bethune–Cookman Hampton 2012 Savannah State Norfolk State 2013 Norfolk State North Carolina A&T 2014 North Carolina Central North Carolina Central 2015 North Carolina Central Hampton 2016 Hampton Hampton 2017 North Carolina Central North Carolina Central 2018 Hampton North Carolina Central 2019 Norfolk State North Carolina Central 2021 Norfolk State 2022 Norfolk State Norfolk State 2023 Howard Howard 2024 Norfolk State Howard

Tournament performance by active schools

School	Championships	Championship Years
Howard	5	1980,1981,1992,2023,2024
South Carolina State	5	1989,1996,1998,2000,2003
Coppin State	4	1990,1993,1997,2008
North Carolina Central	4	2014,2017,2018, 2019
Morgan State	3	1977,2009,2010
Norfolk State	3	2012, 2021, 2022
Maryland-Eastern Shore	1	1974
Delaware State	1	2005

Women's basketball

See also: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 1978 – South Carolina State 1979 – South Carolina State 1980 – – 1981 – – 1982 – Howard 1983 – South Carolina State 1984 South Carolina State Bethune–Cookman 1985 South Carolina State Howard 1986 South Carolina State South Carolina State 1987 Howard Howard 1988 North Carolina A&T Howard 1989 North Carolina A&T Howard 1990 North Carolina A&T Howard 1991 South Carolina State Coppin State 1992 South Carolina State South Carolina State 1993 South Carolina State Coppin State Florida A&M South Carolina State

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 1994 South Carolina State  North Carolina A&T  1995 Florida A&M Florida A&M 1996 Florida A&M Howard 1997 Howard Howard 1998 Howard Howard 1999 Hampton Florida A&M 2000 Howard Hampton 2001 Howard Howard 2002 Howard Norfolk State 2003 Hampton Hampton 2004 Delaware State Hampton Hampton 2005 Coppin State Coppin State 2006 Coppin State Coppin State 2007 Coppin State Delaware State 2008 North Carolina A&T Coppin State 2009 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T

Season   Regular season champion(s)  Tournament champion 2010 North Carolina A&T Hampton University 2011 Hampton Hampton 2012 Hampton Hampton 2013 Hampton Hampton 2014 Hampton Hampton 2015 Hampton Savannah State 2016 Bethune Cookman North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 2017 Bethune Cookman Hampton 2018 North Carolina A&T North Carolina A&T 2019 North Carolina A&T Bethune Cookman 2021 North Carolina A&T 2022 Howard Norfolk State Morgan State Howard 2023 Norfolk State Norfolk State 2024 Norfolk State Norfolk State

Baseball

Last 10 years of champions. In 2023, the four remaining baseball programs from the MEAC joined the Northeast Conference to compete in baseball as associate members.^[54]

See also: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

Season	Regular season champion(s)	Tournament champion
2012	Bethune–Cookman	Bethune–Cookman
2013	Delaware State	Savannah State
2014		Bethune–Cookman
2015		Florida A&M
2016		Bethune–Cookman
2017		Bethune–Cookman
2018		North Carolina A&T
2019		Florida A&M
2021		Norfolk State
2022	Delaware State	Coppin State

See also

• List of black college football classics

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