It was announced by Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment on Thursday that it would be putting on an annual basketball classic for the major Utah college basketball programs. The event will begin in 2017 and will be called the Zions Bank Beehive Classic.
The classic will be a four team event with Utah, BYU, Utah State and Weber State being the participants. The games will all be played in Vivant Arena and is scheduled to take place in 2017, 2018 and 2019 with the opponents rotating each year in a round robin format, so each team will have played each other by 2019.