The HBCU All-Star Game announced its broadcast team lineup for the first-ever featured women’s all-star basketball match on the NBC SportsNow/Peacock, tipping off in San Antonio on Sunday, April 6.
Travis Williams, founder of the HBCU All-Star Game, has selected a highly skilled broadcast team that includes Thai Floyd as play-by-play announcer, Nia Symone as color analyst, and Symone Stanley as sideline reporter.
“I’m extremely excited to be selected for the assignment,” Floyd told HBCU Legends. “I’m blessed to be with Nia Symone as the color analyst and Symone Stanely, who will also be on the sidelines for the men’s broadcast.”
Floyd recently took on the play-by-play responsibilities at the 2025 CIAA Women’s Basketball Tournament in Baltimore, Maryland. She is an experienced broadcaster with a background as a sideline reporter and host for the SWAC, ESPN, Celebration Bowl, and FBS Bowl games. Additionally, Thai Floyd has worked as a writer for HBCU Legends. She’s a graduate-student working for Alabama A&M’s athletic department.
For the past two seasons, Nia Symone has served as one of the color analysts, teaming up with the legendary Charlie Neal to call games for HBCU GO. The former Alabama State basketball star has successfully transitioned into a media sensation, even providing commentary for MMA events in Saudi Arabia.
Symone Stanley is a highly engaging and insightful broadcaster with assignments that cover HBCU football, basketball, baseball, and more. You have seen her work with HBCU Game Day, ESPN, SWAC, and other networks – not to mention she’s a massive Philadelphia Eagles fanatic.
The women’s broadcasting trio consists of our brightest and most talented young superstars, following in the footsteps of one of the icons of HBCU sports and women’s broadcasting, the incomparable Tiffany Greene.
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HBCU All-Stars, LLC is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded in 2019 with the mission to advocate, educate, expose, mentor, and invest in hardworking, talented, ambitious, and very deserving students, student-athletes and brilliant coaches at our distinguished Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Along with its mission, in April 2022, 2023, and 2024, the company also launched three prestigious HBCU All-Star Games and ancillary experiences and events surrounding the historical endeavor in New Orleans, Houston, and Phoenix.
Also, in November 2022, 2023, and 2024, HBCU All-Stars LLC founded ATL Has Something to Say HBCU All-Stars Challenge at Morehouse College and Georgia State University, featuring some of the best teams from the four premier Black college conferences MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, and Tennessee State University. In July 2024, HBCU All-Stars took an international tour to Paris during the Olympics with 10 HBCU All-Star alums from the 2022, 2023, and 2024 HBCU All-Star Games.
The 4th Annual Men’s HBCU All-Star Basketball Game has announced a new broadcast partnership with the CW Network. Previously, CBS Sports televised the event for the first three years. This season, the showcase will feature basketball players from HBCUs and will be available to a national television audience on a new network.
The event is scheduled to air live on Sunday, April 6, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET (12:00 PM CT) at the historic Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.
The HBCU All-Star Game features the nation’s most dynamic and talented men’s basketball players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, representing all four historically Black athletic conferencesāthe Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). Players from independent HBCUs including Tennessee State University, Hampton University, and North Carolina A&T State University will also participate in this showcase event.
“We are honored to partner with HBCU All-Stars to bring this year’s Men’s HBCU All-Star Basketball Game to The CW,” Mike Perman, Senior Vice President of Sports at The CW Network said. “This annual event shines a spotlight on the top HBCU student-athletes, and we look forward to showcasing their stories alongside a thrilling game.”
The timing of the game coincides with college basketball’s championship weekend, providing maximum exposure for these talented athletes during one of the sport’s most-watched periods of the year.