By Cameron Lee
November 24, 2025
Photo: Davidson College Athletics
Charlotte native, Davidson alum, four-time NBA champion, two-time NBA MVP, and 11-time NBA All-Star Stephen Curry will return home on December 30 to celebrate the renaming of Exit 30 — which leads to Davidson College — in his honor.
The Davidson Wildcats will face the Duquesne Dukes at John Belk Arena with Curry and his family in attendance for the halftime celebration, ahead of the Golden State Warriors playing the Hornets on New Year’s Eve. The NCDOT approved renaming the I-77 exit leading to Davidson College as The Stephen Curry Interchange back in December 2023.
Over the years, Curry has given back significantly to his alma mater, creating a scholarship endowment to support women’s athletics at Davidson and launching a multi-million-dollar fund for Davidson’s men’s and women’s basketball programs.
Through the Steph and Ayesha Curry Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, he also made a generous gift to Davidson’s Lula Bell Resource Center, which helps students facing financial challenges by providing access to textbooks, essentials, and life-skills programming.
In August 2022, after winning his fourth NBA championship, he had his jersey officially retired, was inducted into the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame, and received his bachelor’s degree.
Steph Curry at Davidson College today to be honored as a graduate, Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, and to have his No. 30 college jersey retired. pic.twitter.com/duvqptsYZR
— CLTure® ( culture ) (@CLTure) August 31, 2022
Curry took college basketball by storm during his three seasons at Davidson, where his elite shooting and postseason heroics turned him into a national sensation. As a freshman, he emerged as one of the top scorers in the country, broke the NCAA freshman record for three-pointers, and led Davidson to a 29-5 season.
During the 2008 NCAA Tournament, he powered a No. 10 seed Davidson team to the Elite Eight with unforgettable performances against Gonzaga, Georgetown, Wisconsin, and Kansas — averaging 32 points per game and becoming a household name.
He followed that run with a junior season, leading the NCAA in scoring, becoming Davidson’s all-time leading scorer, and earning Consensus First-Team All-American honors before declaring for the NBA Draft.
As the son of Hornets legend Dell Curry and a graduate of Charlotte Christian, it will be quite the homecoming for Steph.
You can get tickets to the Davidson vs. Duquesne game on December 30 at John M. Belk Arena here.
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