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'The single site, enormous square footage, the measures taken to open the property, the 'can do' attitude, the Viacom Showtime partnership bubble for Boxing and access to a testing contract/partnership were driving forces behind Mohegan Sun being viable,' vice president of basketball operations for the Hall of Fame Greg Procino told CBS Sports. In recent months Mohegan Sun has also played host to bubbled-up MMA and boxing events. It's the home of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, but more specifically the resort and the Hall of Fame have put on small college basketball tournaments for a decade every November. There have been commitments, de-commitments, recommitments and inevitable back-outs. Organizers said they've been in touch with nearly 125 schools in the past two months. Keep in mind this will not only be the largest single-site college basketball event of the season, but also probably the largest single site college basketball event in history.' 'As we both began speaking with teams, the level of interest and the complexity of the logistics kept growing.

'I visited Mohegan Sun in early August and was impressed with the facility and with (Mohegan Sun marketing chief) Dave Martinelli's approach to including us,' Giles said. We may soon be looking at conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament being played in bubbles or controlled environments - and we want to show that it can be done successfully.' The quality of these games will go a long way in determining who makes the NCAA Tournament and how teams are seeded in the NCAA Tournament. 'And very important for the sport for us to present great nonconference games. 'I believe it's very important to show games can be played in a safe environment,' Gazelle Group president Rick Giles told CBS Sports. But in Connecticut, the opposite has happened: this destination has attracted more teams than any other and continued to grow from its initial plans in the summer. More than 50% of teams still haven't released their schedules, and in late October ESPN canceled all its tournaments and events for Orlando. This is a huge win for college hoops amid what's been a barbaric past two months in scheduling. CBS Sports has obtained the schedule for what's been dubbed 'Bubbleville' with 45 games over an 11-day period (Nov. Mohegan Sun, which sits on protected tribal land in Uncasville, Connecticut, will take the sport's main stage for a week-plus when the season starts Nov. College basketball's unlikely hub for the biggest cluster of games to start its 2020-21 season is a resort casino snugly tucked against the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.

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