Shedeur Sanders is no longer at an HBCU, but the Colorado quarterback stopped by an HBCU basketball tournament this weekend.
Sanders made an appearance at the Fan Fest of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Tournament ahead of Saturday’s Championship Games. He showed up to make an appearance at a booth representing Wendy’s one of the sponsors of the basketball tournament. He took in a part of Saturday’s women’s championship game as well.
The CIAA is the oldest conference for historically black colleges and universities in the country, made up of 13 institutions up and down the East Coast. Its basketball tournament is often one of the best attended in the country,= despite being a collection of Division II programs.
Shedeur Sanders threw for 3,230 yards and 27 touchdowns while completing 69 percent of his passes his first season in a Colorado football uniform after starting his career at Jackson State. He spent two years playing for his father, Deion Sanders, leading Jackson State to back-to-back SWAC titles before heading to the Power Five program.
Sanders set single-season Jackson State records for touchdown passes (40) and completions (314) while throwing for 3,729 yards and rushing for a career-high six touchdowns in 2022. He set a career with 438 passing yards against Miss. Valley St. on September 24 and threw a career-high five touchdown passes twice in games against Florida A&M (Sept. 4) and Bethune-Cookman (Oct. 15). Sanders had nine games with three-plus touchdown passes this season (2 3-TD games, 5 4-TD games, 2 5-TD games), and six 300-yard passing games this season.