The Basketball Tournament (TBT) has done an admirable job of creating a fun basketball tournament during mid-summer. The Elam ending ensures a game winning basket for every game. Boeheim's Army was fortunate enough to have six game winning baskets last summer on the way to its first TBT championship.
I am not, however, a fan of taking the Elam ending for college basketball. It is a great gimmick for TBT, but forcing a game winning shot for every game waters down the "game winning shot". With an Elam ending you have no half court shot buzzer beaters; the Pearl shot never occurs, nor does the Ennis heroics over Pitt.