The two companies on Wednesday announced the College Basketball Crown, a men’s postseason tournament set to be held in Las Vegas from March 31 to April 6, 2025 — the week leading up to the NCAA’s Final Four (which is set for April 5 and 7 next year). The new tournament will join the likes of the long-running National Invitation Tournament and newer postseason contests, the College Basketball Invitational and CollegeInsider.com Tournament, in trying to attract eyeballs outside of March Madness.
Ryan Seacrest, CAA and AEG are folding their hopes of a new network into a plan to relaunch and rebrand Mark Cuban’s HDNet as a new, pop-culture oriented network called AXS TV.
