VCU will host three HBCUs in its upcoming basketball season.

Making trips to the Siegel Center will be Norfolk State on Dec. 1, Alcorn State (Miss.) State on Dec. 10 and University of Maryland-Eastern Shore on Dec. 22.

Norfolk State and UMES play in the MEAC, while Alcorn is a member of the SWAC.

These are considered “buy games,” meaning the HBCUs will come to Richmond for a guaranteed fee. There will be no return game to the HBCU campuses.

VCU is 5-1 overall against NSU in a series that began in 1971, 1-0 against Alcorn in a game played in 2019 and 6-1 against UMES in games between 1968 and 2015.

VCU has not lost to an HBCU at home since falling to Virginia Union, 77-75, in February 1973, at Franklin Street Gym. It was the Rams’ only loss ever at Franklin Street.

Norfolk State defeated VCU, 109-97, in 1972 at the Coliseum.