During the 2025-26 college basketball season, Food Lion Feeds helped turn free throws into full plates for communities in need.
The company’s Score to Give More initiative teamed up with 54 men’s and women’s basketball programs, including several in our region, to provide 100 meals for every free throw made.
In total, more than 1.7 million meals were delivered to campus food pantries and local Feeding America partner food banks.
Food Lion Feeds, which launched in 2014, is dedicated to ending hunger across 10 states. Since the Score to Give More program began in 2019, it has helped provide more than 8.2 million meals. The organization hopes to provide 3 billion meals by 2032.
Locally, Liberty University and Virginia Tech men’s basketball teams each scored 30,000 meals for their communities.
“Score to Give More brings together our passion for college athletics and our commitment to helping provide meals,” said Kevin Durkee, Manager, Food Lion Feeds, Food Lion. “We’re proud to partner with student-athletes and universities that are making a meaningful difference where they live, learn and play.”
Here’s a full breakdown of how student-athletes helped provide more than 1.6 million meals this season:
Appalachian State University (Men’s): 30,000
Bluefield State University (Men’s): 30,000
Bluefield State University (Women’s): 30,000
Bowie State University (Men’s): 30,000
Bowie State University (Women’s): 30,000
Catawba College (Men’s): 30,000
Claflin University (Men’s): 30,000
Claflin University (Women’s): 27,200
Coastal Carolina University (Men’s): 30,000
Duke University (Men’s): 30,000
East Carolina University (Men’s): 30,000
Elizabeth City State University (Men’s): 30,000
Elizabeth City State University (Women’s): 30,000
Elon University (Men’s): 30,000
Fayetteville State University (Men’s): 30,000
Fayetteville State University (Women’s): 30,000
Gardner-Webb University (Men’s): 30,000
Hampton University (Men’s): 30,000
James Madison University (Men’s): 30,000
Johnson C. Smith University (Men’s): 30,000
Johnson C. Smith University (Women’s): 27,300
Liberty University (Men’s): 30,000
Lincoln University (Men’s): 30,000
Lincoln University (Women’s): 30,000
Livingstone College (Men’s): 30,000
Livingstone College (Women’s): 29,900
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Men’s): 30,000
North Carolina State University (Men’s): 30,000
North Carolina State University (Women’s): 30,000
Old Dominion University (Men’s): 30,000
Queens University of Charlotte (Men’s): 30,000
Queens University of Charlotte (Women’s): 29,600
Shaw University (Men’s): 30,000
Shaw University (Women’s): 30,000
South Carolina State University (Men’s): 30,000
Tennessee Tech University (Men’s): 30,000
Tennessee Tech University (Women’s): 30,000
Towson University (Men’s): 30,000
University of Delaware (Men’s): 30,000
University of Maryland (Men’s): 30,000
University of Maryland (Women’s): 30,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Men’s): 30,000
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Men’s): 30,000
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Men’s): 30,000
University of South Carolina (Men’s): 30,000
Virginia State University (Men’s): 30,000
Virginia State University (Women’s): 30,000
Virginia Tech University (Men’s): 30,000
Virginia Union University (Men’s): 30,000
Virginia Union University (Women’s): 27,300
Wake Forest University (Men’s): 30,000
William & Mary College (Men’s): 30,000
Winston-Salem State University (Men’s): 30,000
Winston-Salem State University (Women’s): 30,000