The Inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament

Jan. 26, 2009

BOSTON, MA -- CollegeInsider.com is pleased to announce the creation of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, which will begin inaugural play in March 2009. The tournament will feature 16 teams not participating in the NCAA or National Invitational Tournament. The field will be determined after the official announcements of the two existing tournaments. Criteria for selection will include, but are not limited to, win-loss record, strength of schedule, strength of conference, and final ten games.

During the 2007-08 season 67 teams, that finished .500 or better, did not participate in postseason play. Eleven of those 67 teams won 20 or more games, with an additional 20 teams amassing at least 18 wins. The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament will provide a second season for 16 deserving college basketball programs.

The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament is a single-elimination tournament, consisting of four rounds, with the first three rounds being played at on-campus sites, which will be determined by seeding. The inaugural championship game will be played at an on-campus site to be determined by seeding.


* The NCAA and the National Association of Basketball Coaches have been consulted throughout and are fully aware of the parameters and guidelines established by CollegeInsider.com.

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Eligible Teams:
Participating teams must finish the regular season with a winning record against division I opponents. Teams whose conferences have less than fifty-percent (50%) of their teams participating in the NCAA and NIT tournaments will be given higher priority for selection into the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.

Selection Committee:
A selection committee determines the field of participants. The panel consists of current and former coaches, athletic directors and senior CollegeInsider.com personnel.

· David Adelman (CollegeInsider.com)
· Brian Doyle (CollegeInsider.com)
· Matt Drake (CollegeInsider.com)
· Lefty Driesell (Former head coach, University of Maryland)
· Hugh Durham (Former head coach, University of Georgia)
· Joe Dwyer (CollegeInsider.com)
· Pat Flannery (Former head coach, Bucknell University)
· Lou Henson (Former head coach, University of Illinois)
· Jim Kerwin (Former head coach, Western Illinois University)
· Kyle Macy (Former head coach, Morehead State University)
· Jim Phelan (Former head coach, Mount St. Mary’s)
· Nolan Richardson (Former head coach, University of Arkansas)
· Riley Wallace (Former head coach, University of Hawaii)
· Perry Watson (Former head coach, University of Detroit)
· Rich Zvosec (Former head coach, UMKC)

Tournament Committee:
The following will serve in a business capacity, organizing and carrying out all things related to the tournament, but will not participate in the team selection process for the tournament.

· Gene Keady (Former head coach, Purdue University)
· Jason Belzer (President, Game, Inc.): Event Management.
· Chris Fuller (Former head coach, Morgan State University): Tournament operations.
· Don Harnum (Director of Athletics, Rider University): Serving as a consultant for business-related matters.
· Angela Lento (Co-Founder CollegeInsider.com): Director of Tournament operations.
· Gary Stewart (Head men’s coach, UC Davis and member of the NABC board of directors): Serving as a consultant for basketball related-matters.
· Dee Stokes (Head women’s coach, Winston Salem State and member of the NABC): Serving as a consultant for basketball and business-related matters.

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About CollegeInsider.com:
CollegeInsider.com, Inc. was originally established in 1995 as a regional newsletter. The product became an online presence in 1996, with college coaches taking active participation in 1997.

CI has developed an implemented unique and creative content like Coach Columns, The Mid-Major Top 25 © and The Runway to the Fashionable Four ©.

The Mid-Major Top 25 is now in its tenth year of existence and, with 31 division coaches on the voting panel, is regarded nationally as the measuring stick for programs outside of the traditional power conferences.

The Runway to the Fashionable 4 has become a national phenomenon, having been featured on ESPN and Fox Sports, as well as countless newspapers across the country. It is now in its sixth year of existence and continues to grow. ESPN’s Jay Bilas provided analysis for the 2008 Runway to the Fashionable 4 tournament, which concluded in San Antonio, TX.

CI has also established three national coaching awards, which are presented annually to recipients at the Final Four.

The Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award was created in March, 2003 to honor Jim Phelan is the only person to coach 49 years at one school and coach over 1,300 career games. He has nineteen 20-win seasons and is third in wins on the all-time Division I chart. JimPhelanAward.com

In April 2005 the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award was created to recognize the outstanding coaching career of Hugh Durham. Durham built national programs at Florida State and at Georgia where he is also the all-time winningest coach in Bulldog history, having won 297 games in 17 seasons. HughDurhamAward.com

The inaugural Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award was presented to Notre Dame’s Mike Brey at the Final Four in San Antonio, in April 2008. The award, which is named in memory of former Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser who passed away suddenly on July 26, 2007, will be given annually to the division I head coach who best represent the high standards of the coaching profession. Winning with integrity.

Since its inception, CollegeInsider.com, Inc. has worked with such entities as ACSSports.com, Basketball Times, CBS SportsLine.com, FoxSports.com and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

In January of 2003, in partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches, CollegeInsider.com created AllCoachNetwork.com, which is an extensive network of “official” coach websites. ACN is the fastest growing site in the CollegeInsider.com family of websites.