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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 Myrtle Beach Invitational is an in-season college basketball tournament owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television that takes place in late November of each year, usually the week before Thanksgiving. The tournament had its inaugural run in 2018.
In 2001, ESPN Regional Television moved beyond broadcasting college football bowl games, when it purchased the Las Vegas Bowl from Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. ESPN Regional did so to help partner conferences that had bowl qualified teams but no bowl available. The company bought four more bowls and started two others. [4]
Ten international teams are vying to emerge as the top team from the international side of the Little League World Series bracket — and then win the world championship game on Aug. 25. They are:
Various methods are used to predict the winners in a bracket. While some use math and statistics, others make selections based on team mascots or colors. [13] [14] President Barack Obama became famous for his bracket predictions. [15] After entering office, he presented his projected winners annually on ESPN in a segment called Barack-etology.
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). [30]
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 and Sunday format with a Saturday off day. The inaugural tournament was held November 14–16, 2008.
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.