The college basketball season is in the homestretch now, with conference tournaments just around the corner, and March and its requisite madness on the next horizon. As excitement around the game heats up from coast to coast, Nike celebrates some of the nation’s great college basketball rivalries with the new Nike Hyper Elite White Uniform collection, marrying together innovative, premium materials and the pageantry of school tradition.
Six men’s teams will wear the new uniforms — Duke, Kentucky, Syracuse, Oregon, Arizona and Florida — along with the women’s squads from UConn and Baylor.
The alternate home uniform for each school boasts a white base with school-color contrast lettering and a school-specific graphic up each side of the shorts at a 26-degree angle. The 26-degree tilt is inspired by the chevron on Nike’s classic Windrunner track jacket, premiered back in 1978, and reflects a sport-specific point of view, based on the 1,000 cuts a player makes during the average game.
Each uniform will see its on-court debut over the next week-plus, in some of each team’s final home games. Additionally, the Hyper Elite Collection will be available at retail beginning February 20.
Kentucky, which will boast an evolved checkerboard print as its graphic, will debut its uniform February 21 against Auburn.
Arizona, featuring an evolved multi-bar graphic based on their current game shorts’ design, will debut its uniform February 21 against UCLA.
Baylor, featuring an evolved paw print and scratch, will debut its uniform February 21 against TCU.
Oregon, featuring an evolved duck-wing pattern, will debut its uniform February 22 against Utah.
Duke, featuring an evolved diamond graphic based on their current game shorts, will debut its uniform February 28 against Syracuse.
Florida, featuring an evolved gator print, will debut its uniform February 28.
Syracuse, featuring evolved blocks based on their current game shorts, will debut its uniform March 2 against Virginia.
UConn, featuring an “evolved iteration of their current uniform and side panel,” will debut its uniform during the American Athletic Conference Tournament.