Bethune-Cookman Wildcats

The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats play home games at Moore Gymnasium in Daytona Beach, Florida, representing a historic HBCU founded by educator Mary McLeod Bethune. After decades in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the Wildcats joined the Southwestern Athletic Conference in 2021 and have already established themselves as regular-season contenders in their new league. Bethune-Cookman basketball carries the broader institutional pride of one of the country's most storied historically Black colleges. The program continues to build its postseason resume in its new conference home.

Bethune-Cookman basketball dates to 1930 and spent most of its Division I history in the MEAC, winning the conference regular-season title outright in 2011 and sharing it in 2018. Since moving to the SWAC in 2021, the Wildcats clinched the 2025-26 regular-season SWAC title, their second outright conference regular-season championship in program history. The program has yet to make a Division I NCAA Tournament appearance but reached the NCAA Division II tournament three times in earlier eras.