College Basketball Crown's unique trophy unveiled as tournament nears tip-off

The College Basketball Crown unveiled a unsocial trophy that volition beryllium handed to the winners of the 16-team men’s postseason tourney successful Las Vegas adjacent month.

The trophy is an existent crown and the archetypal wearable portion of hardware of its benignant successful postseason assemblage basketball. The golden crown was unveiled connected FOX Sports’ "Breakfast Ball" connected Friday greeting with the tourney getting acceptable to extremity disconnected connected Monday.

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Sixteen teams volition vie for the College Basketball Crown connected FOX Sports and FS1. (FOX Sports)

The crown’s unveiling came successful the midst of a week of immense quality surrounding the tournament.

The tourney volition see a name, representation and likeness (NIL) prize excavation that volition grant the winning schoolhouse with a $300,000 NIL package. The second-place schoolhouse volition gain a $100,000 package, and the 2 semifinalists volition gain $50,000 done the Vivid Seats Ambassador Program.

"We're trying to rise the acquisition for student-athletes," FOX Sports enforcement vice president Jordan Bazant said connected Tuesday. "College shot has evolved successful truthful galore ways. There's nary big-game vessel acquisition for hoops programs. We person 12 NBA teams coming to this event, if not more. If you're successful the NCAA Tournament oregon the NIT, you can't nonstop idiosyncratic to each game. At our event, you can, and we'll person NBA radical astatine each azygous game. It's vulnerability that they wouldn't different have.

"For our programs, this is their archetypal crippled and archetypal week successful the 2025-26 year. It cleanses you of the twelvemonth you've had to a degree, oregon it provides that adjacent measurement for a program."

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Arizona State, Boise State, Butler, Cincinnati, Colorado, DePaul, Georgetown, George Washington, Nebraska, Oregon State, Tulane, UCF, USC, Utah, Villanova and Washington State volition each compete. The games volition instrumentality spot astatine the T-Mobile Arena and MGM Grand Garden Arena successful Las Vegas.

The tourney begins Monday and runs done April 6. Games tin beryllium seen connected FS1 with the last being shown connected FOX.

FOX Sports is besides moving a Super 6 contention for fans to marque predictions astir the tourney games.

A rival would person to foretell squad and subordinate performances, vie against different fans connected FOX Sports and ascent the leaderboard for a changeable astatine the apical prize. First prize includes $3,000. Second spot volition output the rival $1,000. The third-place victor gets $500, 4th gets $250, 5th gets $150 and sixth wins $100.

College hoops fans tin gain a stock of astir $5,000 successful currency with FOX Sports Super 6. (FOX Sports)

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