Denis Godla (born April 4, 1995) is a Slovak professional ice hockey goaltender playing for Kokkolan Hermes of the Mestis league.
 Godla was Slovakia's starting goaltender at the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships where he led the team to a bronze medal, also being named in the tournament's All-Star team, the tournament's best goaltender, and overall tournament MVP.
William "Bill" Kotsores (September 18, 1924 – June 1971) was an American basketball player best known for his collegiate career at St. John's University in the 1940s.
 He played on the school's team during the 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons.
 Each year, the Red Storm advanced to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), which at the time was considered the premier men's college basketball postseason tournament.
 St. John's won the NIT during Kotsores' junior year, and he was named the 1944 NIT Tournament MVP after scoring 40 points in three games.
 The following year, St. John's failed to repeat at NIT champions, but Kotsores was honored with the Haggerty Award.
 The Haggerty Award is given annually to the best male collegiate basketball player in the New York City metropolitan area every year since 1935–36.
 Despite a soild career at St. John's in which he was twice named an All-American, Kotsores never played professionally.
The Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represents Michigan State University (MSU) and competes in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I College basketball.
 Their home games are played at the Breslin Student Events Center.
 Tom Izzo has been the head coach since 1995.
 The Spartans have won two NCAA championships and 13 Big Ten Conference Championships.
 Their two National Championships came in the 1979 NCAA Tournament and the 2000 NCAA Tournament.
 The 1979 National Championship Game was the most watched college basketball game in history, with 35.11 million television viewers.
 The 1979 National Championship team was coached by Jud Heathcote and included tournament MVP Magic Johnson, Greg Kelser and Jay Vincent.
 The Spartans defeated the previously unbeaten Indiana State Sycamores, led by future Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
 The 2000 National Championship team defeated the Florida Gators in the final.
 The team was coached by Tom Izzo and led by players Morris Peterson, Charlie Bell, Jason Richardson and tournament MVP Mateen Cleaves.
The 2017 Bulgarian Basketball Cup was the 63rd edition of the annual cup tournament in Bulgaria.It is managed by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation and was held in Plovdiv, in the Kolodruma Hall on February 16–19, 2017.
 Beroe won their 1st cup.
 Travis Daniels was named Tournament MVP and Aaron Jones was named Final MVP.
The 1980 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from February 28 through March 1.
 Duke defeated Maryland 73–72 to win the championship.
 Maryland's Albert King was named the tournament MVP, becoming the last player to date (as of the 2015 tournament) to have been named MVP without playing on the tournament winners.
 Georgia Tech played in this event for the first time as the ACC returned to an eight-team configuration since the first time since the departure of South Carolina in 1971.
Chavano Rainier "Buddy" Hield (born December 17, 1993) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He was named the Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and in 2016, he received four major national player of the year awards—the John R. Wooden Award, the Naismith Award, "Sporting News" Player of the Year, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy.
 Hield was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans.
Keith LeClair was both a star athlete and later head baseball coach at Western Carolina University (Player-1985-88 & Coach-1992-97).
 During his playing days, LeClair played for former Clemson head baseball coach Jack Leggett at Western Carolina.
 He was an All-Southern Conference selection in 1988 while earning SoCon Tournament MVP honors the same season.
 The former walk-on established Catamount baseball records for hits and total bases in a season.
 LeClair played on four consecutive Southern Conference Championship Baseball teams (1985–88).
 He ranked in the top 10 in six different WCU hitting categories while posting a career .375 batting average and was named MVP of the 1988 Southern Conference Tournament (batted .600/12 RBI).
The 2011 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2010-11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place from March 8–12, 2011 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
 This was the third Big East tournament to include all 16 of the conference's teams.
 The teams finishing 9 through 16 in the regular season standings played first round games, while teams 5 through 8 received byes to the second round.
 The top 4 teams during the regular season received double-byes to the quarterfinals.
 The tournament was won by Connecticut, their seventh title, tying Georgetown for the most championships in Big East Men's Basketball Tournament history.
 Connecticut guard Kemba Walker was named the tournament MVP.
The 2015 Diamond Head Classic was a mid-season eight-team college basketball tournament that was played on December 22, 23, and 25 at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 It was the seventh annual Diamond Head Classic tournament and was part of the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 No. 3-ranked Oklahoma defeated Harvard to win the tournament championship.
 Buddy Hield was named the tournament's MVP.
The 2008 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or the 2008 National Invitation Tournament.
 The inaugural tournament began on March 18 on campus sites and ended on April 4, won by the University of Tulsa, defeating their former Missouri Valley Conference rivals Bradley University in the best-of-three final.
 Tulsa center Jerome Jordan was the tournament MVP.
 The CBI was the first newly created post-season tournament since the Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament in 1974.

Question: After being named a tournament  mvp Buddy  Hield was picked by what NBA team?
Answer: New Orleans Pelicans.