[3] The university's Department of Intramural Sports provides a wide variety of quality recreational programs for students, faculty and staff.

A member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Delaware State sponsors teams in six men's and twelve women's NCAA sanctioned sports.

Its men's basketball team won the 2005 MEAC championship and earned a berth in the 2005 NCAA tournament.

Playing as a sixteen-seed, the Hornets lost 57–46 in the opening round to one-seed Duke University.

The women's basketball team won the 2006 MEAC championship and earned a berth in the 2006 NCAA tournament.