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The ESPN Events Invitational (previously the Orlando Invitational, Orlando Classic, Old Spice Classic, and Advocare Invitational) is an annual college basketball tournament played over Thanksgiving weekend—Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. The inaugural tournament was held November 23, 24, and 26, 2006.
The Asheville Championship is a two-day college basketball tournament held in Asheville, NC at Harrah's Cherokee Center.The inaugural tournament took place during the opening week of the 2021–22 season, and aired on the ESPN family of networks. [1]
Schools are awarded $2 million in exchange for their participation in the men's event. [ 2 ] In 2020, the tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , which was scheduled to include a women's Battle 4 Atlantis tournament which also would have featured eight teams.
The Charleston Classic is a three-day invitational college basketball season-opening tournament held in Charleston, South Carolina. An ESPN-owned and operated event, it is contested at TD Arena, home of the Charleston Cougars. Each team plays three games in four days, since the second edition the tournament has been played on a Thursday, Friday ...
Alijah Martin scored 17 points, Vladislav Goldin had 14, and No. 19 Florida Atlantic beat Virginia Tech 84-50 to win the ESPN Events Invitational championship on Sunday. Johnell Davis had 12 ...
Henry Coleman III scored 24 points, Wade Taylor IV had 23 and No. 12 Texas A&M beat Penn State 89-77 in the opening round of the ESPN Events Invitational on Thursday. Tyrece Radford added 14 ...
Alphonzo Billups III scored a career-high 23 points, Zeb Jackson added 22 and VCU turned back Penn State 86-74 in the seventh-place game at the ESPN Events Invitational on Sunday. Billups hit all ...
ESPN continues to provide television coverage of the tournament. In 2011 the NCAA and ESPN agreed to a $500 million agreement through 2023–24 for rights to cover championships in several sports, including the NIT; [57] this compares with the 11-year, $6.2 billion TV contract with CBS and Turner Sports for the NCAA tournament.