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The women’s basketball teams from Connecticut, Tennessee, Iowa and Louisville will be paired in a primetime doubleheader on December 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in the inaugural Women’s Champions Classic, an early-season tournament that will be organized by Horizon Sports & Experiences and Fox Sports. The four teams in the inaugural event have […]
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The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold five straight men’s basketball tournaments in North Carolina starting in 2025, while the women’s tournament that has had a longtime home in Greensboro as the city of the league’s founding will split time between there and Charlotte. The ACC announced future sites for 42 championships in 14 sports — […]
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The Big Ten Conference will expand its men’s and women’s basketball tournament fields to 15 teams, an increase of one from previous years, which means that three teams will miss the conference tournament starting with the 2024-2025 season. The conference will welcome Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington starting this fall, increasing its membership to 18 […]
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The Missouri Valley Conference has announced a three-year extension of its agreement to host its men’s basketball tournament at Enterprise Center in St. Louis, which keeps the event in the destination through at least 2028, with an option to continue the contract through 2030, which would mark 40 consecutive years of “Arch Madness” in the […]
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Highlighting many of the features and colors representative of Tampa Bay and the state of Florida, the 2025 NCAA Women’s Final Four logo has been unveiled. The University of South Florida and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission will serve as co-hosts for the event at Amalie Arena, with the national semifinals on April 4 and […]
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The United States Collegiate Athletic Association has announced that the 2025 and 2026 USCAA Basketball Small College National Championships will be held in Buffalo. The championship events will be held March 8–15, 2025 and March 1–7, 2026 and will include about 800 players on 36 teams representing schools from multiple states. Both tournaments will be […]
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As they prepare for the inaugural Rady Children’s Invitational next month, Sports San Diego officials announced the field for the 2024 event will include Arkansas, BYU, Notre Dame and Purdue. “We are fired up to have these premier college basketball programs and institutions with amazing traditions and fan bases set to play in San Diego […]
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Reno’s largest hotel and casino announced Wednesday plans for a $1 billion private capital investment that would include a new off-campus home for the University of Nevada men’s basketball team that could be ready by 2026. No public money will be involved in the financing. Officials of the Grand Sierra Resort and Reno Mayor Hillary […]
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The 2023 Maui Invitational will shift to the island of Oʻahu while its traditional home court, the Lahaina Civic Center, continues to serve as a critical hub for Maui wildfire recovery efforts. The 2023 tournament will take place at the Stan Sheriff Center on the campus of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa from November […]
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The Maui Invitational has launched the Hoops for ‘Ohana online auction in partnership with the Hawaii Community Foundation’s Maui Strong Fund, which is dedicated to providing financial resources for rapid response and recovery for the devastating wildfires on Maui. The Maui Invitational has called Maui home for nearly 40 years at the Lahaina Civic Center […]
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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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