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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.
After pleas from ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla, Yahoo Sports columnist Jeff Eisenberg, and SportsCenter host Scott Van Pelt, [20] the NCAA adopted the ritual for March Madness in 2018. [21] [22] After the game, a portable bracket was brought into the winning team's locker room. One player, or a group of players, advanced the team to the next round.
More than one-third of ESPN Tournament Challenge brackets predicted Michigan State to make the Final Four. [20] In the East Region, No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin upset No. 3 seed West Virginia, marking the fourth straight tournament in which a No. 14 seed upset a No. 3 seed. [21]
LAKE ZURICH, Ill. -- A Lake Zurich sixth grader put more than 11-million people to shame when he tied for first in ESPN's bracket challenge. Sam Holtz's near-perfect bracket should have qualified ...
After Day 1 of Round 1 of the @espn Men’s Tournament Challenge:. 💯 161 brackets out of 17.3 million picked all 16 games correctly. 0️⃣ Only 12 brackets managed to go 0 for 16.
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.
ESPN International had international rights to the tournament. Coverage uses CBS/Turner play-by-play teams until the Final Four. [26] Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas (Texas Tech vs. Michigan State), Dick Vitale (Virginia vs. Auburn, National Championship Game)
ESPN International held broadcast rights to the tournament outside of the United States: it produced its own broadcasts of the semi-final and championship game, called by ESPN College Basketball personalities Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Dick Vitale (analyst for the final and one semi-final), and Jay Bilas (analyst for the other semi-final). [31]