From ESPN:
All eight teams are confirmed for the 2013 Old Spice Classic, to be held Thanksgiving weekend, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, Nov. 28, 29 & Dec. 1, at the HP Field House at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Fla.
The field for the eighth annual event includes Butler, LSU, Memphis, Oklahoma State, Purdue, Saint Joseph's, Siena and Washington State.
The 2013 Old Spice Classic will feature a bracket format with 12 games over three days. Each team will compete in one game per day, advancing through the bracket. The two teams that remain undefeated throughout will face off in a championship game on the final day of competition.
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) will serve as the event's sponsoring conference for the eighth straight year.
The family-friendly tournament is a weekend-long affair at the Walt Disney World Resort where participating teams practice, play and enjoy the Walt Disney World Resort Theme Parks.
Previous winners of the Old Spice Classic have included Dayton, Notre Dame, Florida State, Gonzaga, NC State and Arkansas.
Additional information, including travel packages, can be found on the Old Spice Classic Web site at www.oldspiceclassic.com.
The Old Spice Classic is owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television (ERT), a subsidiary of ESPN.
ESPN Regional
Television/Event Ownership
The
nation's largest syndicator of collegiate sports programming, ESPN Regional Television (ERT) annually produces more than 1,200 sporting
events. Content includes action from NCAA football, basketball and Olympic
sports, NHRA and professional and amateur golf, accounting for more than 3,400
live and/or original hours of programming. ERT's owned and operated events
reach over a million fans a year and provides more than 200 additional hours of
programming.
In addition to event ownership, ERT is the production headquarters for ESPNU; syndication rights-holder and producer of national, regional and local shows for college conferences (SEC, BIG EAST, Big 12, Mid-American, WAC) and manages the Big 12 Corporate Partner Program.
ESPN Regional Television markets and/or owns several sporting events:
Collegiate Football
BBVA Compass Bowl (Birmingham, Ala.); Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg; Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas-Fort Worth); MAACO Bowl Las Vegas; Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque); MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney (Orlando, Fla.); Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Houston); Texas Kickoff Classic (Houston); Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl (Honolulu) and The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards
Collegiate Basketball
Sears Armed Forces Classic (Ramstein Air Base, Germany); Charleston Classic presented by Foster Grant (S.C.); DIRECTV Classic (Anaheim, Calif.); Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu); Jimmy V Classic presented by Corona Extra (Madison Square Garden); Old Spice Classic (Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.); Puerto Rico Tip-Off (San Juan); BracketBusters and State Farm Champions Classic (Georgia Dome, Atlanta)
Collegiate Lacrosse
Additional Events
About ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
ESPN Wide World of
Sports Complex, which hosts more than 300 events a year, is the leading
multisport venue for amateur and professional sports in the United States,
accommodating 60 different sports and athletes from more than 70 countries.
Designed to take youth sports to the next level, the 220-acre facility
features: HP Field House, a 165,000-square-foot field house that seats 5,500
for basketball; Champion Stadium
ballpark (cap. 11,500); Hess Sports Fields, which include multiple baseball,
softball and soccer fields; Jostens Center, an 80,000-square-foot multisport
field house; and the Innovation Lab, a real-world testing ground for the ESPN
Emerging Technology group to develop groundbreaking on-air products such as Ball
Track and ESPN Snap Zoom. In addition, the complex features 56 high definition
cameras (42 robotic, 10 hand-held and four studio) and 40 high definition video
screens, including three jumbo screens, that can capture and display footage
from any event taking place at the complex. The camera and video screens, as
well as a 20-zone audio system, are controlled through the state-of-the-art
Production Center, which features eight edit bays and links to ESPN facilities
in Bristol, Conn., New York and Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.wdwnews.com for releases, photos and
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