Lansing Community College men's basketball plays Grand Rapids during the first half on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Lansing.Graham Couch, Lansing State JournalWed, March 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC·2 min readLansing Community College’s men’s and women’s basketball teams each learned their NJCAA national championship draws Tuesday evening.
The LCC women (27-3) are the No. 7-overall seed in the 20-team NJCAA Division II national tournament, which runs March 16-21 in Hickory, North Carolina. The Stars open with a bye to the second round and then face a familiar opponent in No. 10-seed Parkland College, from Champaign, Illinois,, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementLCC played Parkland once already, on Dec. 18 in the Palm Beach State Classic in Florida, as part of a challenging non-conference schedule Stars coach Megan Hudson put together for her team in preparation for just this very moment. LCC won the first meeting, 59-53.
If the Stars beat Parkland, they’ll likely face 2-seed Illinois Central at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 19. LCC also played Illinois Central earlier this season, falling 75-66 on Nov. 15 at St. Clair County’s tournament. The Stars have played five of the 20 teams that made the national tournament, beating 14-seed Mid-Michigan College twice, 16-seed Moraine Valley once, and falling twice to 5-seed Schoolcraft. All games are being held at the Tarlton Complex on the campus of Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, North Carolina.
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LCC’s men’s basketball team (24-7) is the 17 seed in the NJCAA Division II national championship bracket, beginning play next Monday, March 16, against 16-seed Arkansas State Mid-South in Danville, Illinois. The game tips off at 10 a.m. local time (11 a.m. ET). If the Stars win their opener, they’ll play No. 1-seed Des Moines Area at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) Tuesday, with all games at Danville Arena Community College.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Stars have faced three of the teams in the 20-team field — beating No. 3 Milwaukee Area Technical College at home in December, and falling to No. 10 Mid-Michigan and No. 12 Schoolcraft.
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This is the LCC women’s team's first appearance at the NJCAA Division II national tournament since 1996 — when the Stars won the national championship — and the LCC men’s first trip to Danville since 2016, and fifth trip under head coach Mike Ingram.
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This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Lansing Community College basketball teams learn NJCAA tournament draw
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