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2024-2025 College Basketball General Discussion

NIL-driven Las Vegas college basketball event with millions paid to schools is nearly finalized

The 'Players Era Festival' will include eight teams in 2024. In 2025 it's expected to double to 16 teams -- with huge brands​

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A one-of-a-kind revolutionary regular-season men's basketball event to be staged later this year in Las Vegas is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks, CBS Sports has learned. Its selling point is based on the major factor that has drastically altered college sports over the past three years: name, image and likeness compensation for players.

Games will be played in November under the umbrella of an event dubbed the "Players Era Festival," which will also include live music and other attractions for fans amid the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip during Thanksgiving week. In a college sports first, the event will also include $1 million NIL payouts for eight participating schools. What's more, players involved will have future earnings opportunities through long-term NIL contracts, sources told CBS Sports.

Alabama, Houston, Notre Dame, Oregon, Rutgers, San Diego State and Texas A&M are all on board, sources said. The eighth and final school for the 2024 event will emerge from a small group that is still being deliberated. The Players Era Festival is not being pitched as a one-year happening, either. Plans are to double the size of the field, sources told CBS Sports, with 16 teams as the target for 2025 and beyond. Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Michigan, Syracuse and Virginia have all engaged in discussions about potentially playing in 2025. If they opt in, they'd be joined by most (if not eventually all) of the schools playing in 2024, many of which have already signed up for a three-year agreement, according to sources.

Event organizers are in the final negotiating stages with MGM Resorts International to hold games at any or all of its three major venues: T-Mobile Arena, MGM Grand Garden Arena and Michelob ULTRA Arena. The tentative schedule is to play games on Nov. 26, 27 and 29, with Thanksgiving an off-day. The 2024 format(s) for the eight teams has not been decided. Organizers are still weighing whether to have a single eight-team tournament bracket or two separate four-team multi-team events (MTEs).

The tournament would be unique in that the NIL collective of each participating school would be paid $1 million. Additional significant NIL opportunities (believed to be in the neighborhood of another $1 million) would be awarded exclusively to the winner or winners of the event, depending on the final bracket format(s). The money would then be distributed to athletes by the collectives. The athletes, while in Las Vegas, would be required to participate in multiple off-the-court activities to earn that NIL money. That quid pro quo agreement for NIL money is a key distinction and at the core of the appeal of the festival. Pay-for-play remains against NCAA rules. However, athletes can be paid for NIL work surrounding the actual games, which is the pitch here.
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Schools participating, however, see a landscape-altering opportunity at a time when programs are desperate for any fundraising to bolster recruiting prowess and increase their NIL war chests. Consider: many top-end 2024 transfers in the past month have committed to a variety of programs after being promised north of $1 million, sources said.
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Just sayin': The House vs NCAA lawsuit is a "runaway NIL train" that won't be stopped. This is just the tip of the "NIL iceberg" floating our way and undoubtedly the future of college sports.
The NCAA typically pulls in about $1 billion each year in revenue from media rights, merchandise licensing, ticket sales, and corporate sponsorships associated with the three-week tournament.
For basketball, sometime in the not too distant future a designated portion of that will be allocated to the players, etc.

LGHL Joel Klatt has the Buckeyes No. 1 following the spring, naturally

Joel Klatt has the Buckeyes No. 1 following the spring, naturally
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Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch

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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.

Look, we get it. Your days are busy and you don’t have time to read all of the stories and tweets from the three dozen websites dedicated to covering Ohio State athletics, or the 237 Buckeye beat writers churning out hot takes and #content on a daily basis. But that’s ok, that’s what your friends at Land-Grant Holy Land are here for.

Monday through Friday, we’ll be collecting all of the articles, tweets, features, interviews, videos, podcasts, memes, photos, and whatever else we stumble across on the interwebz and putting them in our daily “Why is this News?” article. That way, you’ll have a one-stop shop for all of the most important Buckeye news, jokes, and analysis.

You’re welcome!


On the Gridiron


Why Joel Klatt has Ohio State at No. 1 team heading into 2024
Colin Gay, The Columbus Dispatch


Now that spring ball is over, @joelklatt gives you his latest top 25 pic.twitter.com/mhflzzXeTS

— The Joel Klatt Show: A CFB Pod (@JoelKlattShow) May 6, 2024

Ohio State’s Enokk Vimahi to transfer to Washington
Patrick Murphy, Bucknuts

Biggest Concern: Can Ryan Day get top-level quarterback play in 2024?
Michael Citro, Land-Grant Holy Land


On the Hardwood


Making sense of Ohio State’s offseason so far - transfer portal, coaching hires, development
Patrick Murphy, Bucknuts


Outside the Shoe and Schott


Women’s Golf: Hollenbaugh Paces Buckeyes on Day One in Bryan
Ohio State Athletics

Softball: Big Ten Tournament Play Opens on Wednesday Night
Ohio State Athletics


And now for something completely different...


Still has the higher ground:


BREAKING: Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are fighting on the stairs at the Met Gala pic.twitter.com/K5g7QB7wsH

— Catrina, Ventress Correspondent & Historian (@ohcatrina) May 6, 2024

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LGHL Big Ten announces Ohio State women’s basketball 2024-25 conference opponents

Big Ten announces Ohio State women’s basketball 2024-25 conference opponents
ThomasCostello
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Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch

Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK

The Buckeyes learned its conference opponents for next season, including a trip to the West Coast against a pair of NCAA tournament teams

Tuesday afternoon, the Big Ten announced its first schedule news of the 2024-25 season. While the dates are still in the air, Ohio State women’s basketball knows which conference teams it’ll face.

Shifting the landscape of the Big Ten are the addition of four teams to the conference, bringing its number to 18 programs. With the new squads, schedules and rivalries are changing.

The Big Ten announced that this season, each school will play a home-and-home against only one team, and for the Buckeyes, it is the Maryland Terrapins in 2024-25. Led by head coach Brenda Frese, the Terrapins ended Ohio State’s Big Ten Tournament run on its first day last season, defeating the Buckeyes 82-61.

That means that the Buckeyes won’t have two games against the Michigan Wolverines. Instead, Ohio State travels to Ann Arbor for its lone game of the regular season. Michigan and the Michigan State Spartans will instead play each other twice, with the in-state rivalry taking precedence over the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.

On the court, the Buckeyes and Terrapins have been even over the past few seasons. Maryland edges out Ohio State winning four of its last three, but losing both regular season games during the 23-24 season.

Ohio State also travels to face the Indiana Hoosiers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Penn State Nittany Lions, and Wisconsin Badgers, of the old Big Ten guard. The lone trip out to the West Coast will be in Los Angeles.

The Buckeyes travel to both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins, both teams that beat Ohio State last season.

Both teams who made deep tournament runs bested the Buckeyes, and return strong groups headlined by USC’s star guard Juju Watkins and Bruins center Lauren Betts. Of last season’s games, the one against the Trojans tipped off the campaign on neutral ground, playing in Las Vegas, Nevada. UCLA’s win came at the Schottenstein Center on Dec. 18, 2023.

Big Ten teams are likely taking West Coast trips for extended periods of time. That means the Buckeyes could have games against UCLA and USC within the same week, both on the road. It creates a tough test against two already tough teams for an Ohio State side that lost three starters due to NCAA eligibility expiring.

For home matchups, head coach Kevin McGuff’s side welcomes the Illinois Fighting Illini, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan State Spartans, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Northwestern Wildcats, and Purdue Boilermakers.

Within the group of four former Pac-12 teams, the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies descend on Columbus in the upcoming season. That means Buckeyes’ transfer Chance Gray, out of Winton Woods High School in Cincinnati, Ohio doesn’t have to wait long to face her former side.

The former Duck transferred after starting every game she appeared in for Oregon in her first two seasons of college basketball.

Dates for these games aren’t expected until September.

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2025 NFL Draft April 24 - 26

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The 2025 NFL draft will be the 90th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft is scheduled to be held around Lambeau Field and Titletown campus in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 24–26, 2025.

Here's a way too early 2025 NFL Mock Draft that has 6 Ohio State 1st round picks:

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2025 NFL Mock Draft: Colorado stars Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter headline CBS Sports' debut projections

These college football stars highlight a loaded 2025 draft class.​

College football's biggest stars made leaps in their careers last month when they heard their names called at the 2024 NFL Draft. Meanwhile, those players' departures opened avenues to stardom for the replacements at their respective schools, and many of those up-and-coming standouts and returning weapons thrived in spring practices. Phenoms like the Colorado duo of Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter are now a year out from headlining the NFL's next wave of rookies in 2025.

Preseason stars have a long road ahead of them in cementing their status as pro prospects, but the majority of college football's biggest names for the 2024 campaign will jockey for positioning on the draft board throughout the upcoming season. CBS Sports' Ryan Wilson offered a lookahead at which players could headline next year's class, with Ohio State, Georgia and other recruiting powerhouses leading the way in projected selections.

5. NEW YORK GIANTS: DE JT TUIMOLOAU, OHIO STATE​

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JT Tuimoloau projected as a three-year player for Ohio State when he signed with the program as the nation's No. 1 overall recruit in the 2021 class. He is back for a fourth season, though, on the heels of his best campaign to date in which he logged 38 tackles, seven tackles for loss and five sacks. In order to reach the lofty heights that would both fulfill his expectations and make him an early first-round target, Tuimoloau must be more consistent in 2024. He could be the top edge rusher in this draft class.

8. MINNESOTA VIKINGS: DB DENZEL BURKE, OHIO STATE​

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Ohio State has a longstanding tradition as one of college football's top cornerback factories, and Denzel Burke should be the next first-rounder to come through Columbus. He made a splash two years ago as a Freshman All-American and remained a formidable pass defender over his sophomore and junior campaigns, and as one of the many draft-eligible players returning for another season with the Buckeyes, Burke could close his college career with a bang and elevate his draft stock to new heights.

14. Indianapolis Colts: WR Emeka Egbuka, Ohio State

17. Cleveland Browns: DT Tyleik Williams, Ohio State

28. Buffalo Bills: DE Jack Sawyer, Ohio State

32. San Francisco 49ers: RB Quinshon Judkins, Ohio State


Re: 2004 Miami tied 2021 Alabama for the record for most first-round picks at six.

Just sayin': I'll say that Ohio State has an outside chance of 7 1st rounders with Treveyon Henderson, Seth McLaughlin, Will Howard, and/or (maybe) Sonny Styles.

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