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Preseason NIT featuring Cincinnati Bearcats moving to Orlando from Brooklyn, per report

The 2020 Preseason NIT - also called the NIT Season Tip-Off and set to feature the Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team in addition to Arizona, Texas Tech and St. John's as headliners - is among early season college basketball events moving to Orlando, according to a report from CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein for collegehoopstoday.com.

Cincinnati Bearcats head coach John Brannen looks to the scoreboard late in the second half of the Annual Crosstown Shootout rivalry game between the Xavier Musketeers and the Cincinnati Bearcats at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. Xavier took the annual rivalry game, 73-66.

The tournament had been scheduled to be played in late November at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The Champions Classic, the Jimmy V Classic, Orlando Invitational (featuring Xavier), Myrtle Beach Invitational, Charleston Classic, Wooden Legacy and Diamond Head Classic also will be played in Orlando, according to the report, and fans aren't expected to attend any of them.