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College basketball fans and insomniacs aren’t going to have their annual evening of overlap this fall.
ESPN’s 24-hour tip-off marathon of hoops is going away this year after nine seasons on the college basketball landscape, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The network said the event, which featured a dozen games spread over a full day, “presented programming challenges and won’t be part of this year’s schedule,” according to the AP.
While certainly a logistical challenge, the event did provide college basketball with something of a television and marketing foothold early in the season when interest, beyond other made-for-TV matchups like the Champion’s Classic, can be hard to garner for the sport when college football and the NFL are in their home stretches.