New In Season Tournament for College Basketball in the Works

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00:04 Sportscaster Rick Horowitz with your Sports News Minute.

00:06 >> It was inevitable, but now it looks like it's going to be real for this year.

00:11 The in-season tournament with some of the top teams available and the money, all of it,

00:18 going to NIL for sponsorship dollars and for players to give

00:24 to various programs through their coaches.

00:27 And look at the teams that look like they're being spoken to, FAU, Alabama, Duke, Kansas,

00:32 Oregon, San Diego State, St. John's, Syracuse, Virginia.

00:35 Just for starters, that's a big deal and one ever wonder studios

00:41 and others are putting it together as well.

00:43 And the million dollars that would be committed per team plus travel and room

00:48 and board would have to be spent for current players to bolster the rest

00:53 of the athletic program, which is long overdue to earmark NIL money specifically for this.

00:58 Probably the first of many, but it looks like it's going to happen.

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