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The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament will underdog a revamp in its format starting in 2023, with regional sites cut to two from four host cities as the bid process begins at the end of August. The change was approved at the recent meeting of the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee in Indianapolis. Instead of four […]
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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has selected the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa, to host the NAIA Women’s Basketball Championship from 2021–2024. The 2021 event will be the first championship to occur after both Divisions I and II are set to merge in the fall of 2020. Sioux City has been the home of the NAIA […]
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The Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament will return to Washington, D.C., in 2022 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2023 and 2024. This season, the conference tournament will be staged at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the first of a three-year agreement with the arena. The A-10 tournament was previously held at Barclays Center 2013–2016 before relocating to Pittsburgh in 2017 […]
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The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association has selected Baltimore to host the 2021–2023 CIAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament. The event has been held in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the past 13 years. “This is an exciting time for the CIAA as we have an opportunity to bring the basketball tournament to a new market, moving it closer to […]
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Since being named chairman of CBS Sports in 2011, Sean McManus has overseen all operations across CBS Sports properties. That has included negotiations for high-profile events such as the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the PGA Tour and Thursday and Sunday NFL games, as well as the rebranding of CBS Sports Network. Since joining CBS in 1996, he has held a variety of key roles, including president of both CBS Sports and CBS News from 2005–2011. In April, CBS and Turner announced an eight-year, $8.8 billion contract extension for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament through 2032 that includes all digital rights to the championship. And in February, the NFL awarded CBS a new package of Thursday night games as well. In this interview with SportsTravel’s Jason Gewirtz, McManus discusses the NCAA renewal…
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The Big East Conference became a powerhouse when it formed in 1979 with some of the best basketball schools in the country. But with some schools chasing football and the conference landscape shifting, the presidents of seven Catholic schools—including Georgetown, Providence and St. John’s—chose to leave what was left of the Big East in 2013 and rebuild as a basketball-focused conference under the same name, inviting Butler, Xavier and Creighton into the fold. But their biggest move may have been hiring Val Ackerman as commissioner. The former college star, who has served as USA Basketball president, an NBA executive and the founding…
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