ESPN Events Invitational

ESPN Events Invitational

Sport	College Basketball (men's)
Founded	2006
No. of teams	8
Most recent champion(s)	Florida
Most titles	Gonzaga (3)

The ESPN Events Invitational (previously the Orlando Invitational, Orlando Classic, Old Spice Classic, and Advocare Invitational) is an annual college basketball tournament played over Thanksgiving weekend—Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. The inaugural tournament was held November 23, 24, and 26, 2006. The tournament is played at the State Farm Field House at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. In the current format, the tournament consists of eight teams from separate conferences. All eight teams are guaranteed three games. Teams who lose in the first round move to the consolation bracket and can finish no better than 5th, while the worst a team can finish that wins in the first round is 4th. The final ranking of the teams is determined by separate games for 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th places. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference serves as the host for the tournament. The 2020 tournament was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Year	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
2006	Arkansas	West Virginia	Marist	Western Michigan	Southern Illinois	Virginia Tech	Montana	Minnesota
2007	NC State	Villanova	George Mason	Kansas State	South Carolina	Rider	UCF	Penn State
2008	Gonzaga	Tennessee	Georgetown	Maryland	Michigan State	Wichita State	Oklahoma State	Siena
2009	Florida State	Marquette	Alabama	Michigan	Baylor	Xavier	Iona	Creighton
2010	Notre Dame	Wisconsin	Boston College	California	Texas A&M	Temple	Georgia	Manhattan
2011	Dayton	Minnesota	Indiana State	Fairfield	DePaul	Arizona State	Wake Forest	Texas Tech
2012	Gonzaga	Davidson	Oklahoma	West Virginia	Clemson	Marist	Vanderbilt	UTEP
2013	Memphis	Oklahoma State	LSU	Butler	Saint Joseph's	Washington State	Purdue	Siena
2014	Kansas	Michigan State	Marquette	Tennessee	Georgia Tech	Rhode Island	Santa Clara	Rider
2015	Xavier	Dayton	Monmouth	USC	Alabama	Notre Dame	Iowa	Wichita State
2016	Gonzaga	Iowa State	Florida	Miami	Stanford	Seton Hall	Quinnipiac	Indiana State
2017	West Virginia	Missouri	St. John's	UCF	Nebraska	Long Beach State	Oregon State	Marist
2018	Villanova	Florida State	Oklahoma State	LSU	College of Charleston	Memphis	UAB	Canisius
2019	Maryland	Marquette	USC	Harvard	Temple	Davidson	Fairfield	Texas A&M
2020	No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
2021	Dayton	Belmont	Kansas	Iona	Alabama	Miami (FL)	North Texas	Drake
2022	Oklahoma	Ole Miss	Siena	Seton Hall	Memphis	Stanford	Nebraska	Florida State
2023	Florida Atlantic	Virginia Tech	Texas A&M	Iowa State	Butler	Boise State	VCU	Penn State
2024	Florida	Wichita State	Wake Forest	Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

* – Denotes overtime period

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• November 28 – November 29

• November 23 – November 26

• November 24 – November 27

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