For the first time in 32 years, three HBCU men’s basketball programs landed in the same NCAA Tournament field. Prairie View A&M (SWAC), Howard (MEAC), and Tennessee State (OVC) all earned bids to the 2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Behind the highlight reels and bracket drama of March Madness, there is a significant financial story worth telling. The Unit System: How the NCAA Distributes Tournament Money The NCAA does not pay competing schools directly. Instead, it distributes revenue to conferences through a “unit” system, where each conference earns one unit per game played in the men’s tournament. The
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