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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.
Kentucky's 80-76 loss to Oakland on Thursday night didn't just end a bunch of perfect brackets. The third-seeded Wildcats were picked in 95% of brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge to beat ...
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ESPN had a record 3.65 million entries for the Tournament Challenge. [21] Legendary basketball coach Bob Knight retired from coaching in February 2008, he joined ESPN, the following month as a studio analyst for Championship Week and later appeared during the NCAA tournament, including on location from San Antonio at the Final Four. [22]
The tournament, which is a part of the regular season for all participating colleges, began in 1985 as the Preseason NIT, so-called in order to distinguish it from the post-season NIT. In 2005, the NCAA purchased the Men's Preseason and Postseason NIT and renamed the November tournament the NIT Season Tip-Off.
A 2K Sports Classic game in 2008. The Empire Classic is an annual college basketball event played in November at the beginning of the season and televised by ESPN.Originally known as the Atlantic City Shootout and produced by the Gazelle Group, Inc., the event was first played in 1995.
After entering office, he presented his projected winners annually on ESPN in a segment called Barack-etology. [16] [17] However, in 2015 he was bested by his former political rival and 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, who ranked in the top 0.1 percent of entrants in ESPN's 2015 Tournament Challenge.
The ACC–SEC Challenge is an in-season NCAA Division I college basketball series that matches men's and women's teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It replaced the ACC–Big Ten Challenge and the Big 12/SEC Challenge which both ended in 2022.