WASHINGTON (June 23, 2025) — Howard University men's basketball team is proud to announce its participation in the inaugural Brotherhood Run, a multi-team event hosted by Duke University, featuring three programs led by Duke Basketball alumni: Duke; Niagara and Howard.
 
The event will be hosted at historic Cameron Indoor Stadium and marks a celebration of shared values, leadership and legacy.
 
"We are honored to take part in the inaugural Brotherhood Run—hosted by Duke University under the stewardship of Coach Jon Scheyer, whose leadership represents the next chapter of a storied legacy," said Howard men's basketball head coach Kenneth Blakeney. "This gathering of Duke alumni—Coach Greg Paulus at Niagara and myself at Howard—is less a reunion and more a reflection of the values we carry and the paths we have chosen to walk."
 
Blakeney—who captained Duke's 1995 team and played on the back-to-back national championship squads (1991 & 1992) —will lead the Bison, alongside Niagara's Head Coach Greg Paulus, a former standout point guard and team captain at Duke, and Duke's current Head Coach Jon Scheyer, who helped lead the Blue Devils to a national title as a player and now carries forward the program's celebrated tradition.
 
"Each of us, in our own way, came through Durham—molded not just by victories or banners, but by the deeper lessons that Coach Mike Krzyzewski imparted," Blakeney continued. "Lessons about excellence, accountability and purpose. Those lessons now live on in new contexts, new communities and through new voices."
 
HU opens the tournament with Niagara Saturday (Nov. 22). The next day (Nov. 23), Howard battles the Blue Devils for the first time in program history.
 
"This tournament is not simply about basketball," Blakeney explained. "It is about the arc of leadership. It is about legacy not as something inherited, but something extended. And it is about the responsibility we carry—not only to the game, but to the young men we coach, the institutions we serve and the futures we are helping to build."
 
The Brotherhood Run offers more than early-season matchups—it is a moment of recognition and vision for what leadership in college basketball looks like today and what it will become tomorrow.
 
"The Brotherhood is not a fixed identity," Blakeney concluded. "It is an evolving promise. One we intend to keep—together."
 
For more information, visit the Bison Athletics website at www.HUBison.com.