College Basketball Crown vs NIT
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College basketball is getting a new and exciting post-season basketball tournament this year.
Associated Press |
There is one postseason game featuring a Big 12 team on the Thursday college basketball schedule, the UCF Knights versus the Cincinnati Bearcats.
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It’s a similar format to the Players Era Festival, an early-season tournament also in Las Vegas that offered at least $1 million in NIL money to each of the eight participating teams. Bazant said the Crown borrowed some ideas from that event and other tournaments.
USC held a 31-27 lead at halftime and built that up to a 12-point advantage less than five minutes into the second half. Then Dixon woke up. He was responsible for 14 of Villanova's points during a 16-2 run in the middle of the half, giving the Wildcats a 45-43 lead.