As the college basketball offseason—and summer—drags on, scheduling news provides fans with a little taste of what's to come between November and March. In this series, Blogging the Bracket's Chris Dobbertean examines this season's exempt tournaments, providing facts that will probably only be interesting to him. For the fields that will announce their brackets in August, Chris will provide his own suggested bracket for the purposes of later mocking. Only three exempt tournaments take place at the end of the calendar year, with two now scheduled for Las Vegas. Today, I'm looking at the older of this pair.
To catch up on all of the posts in this series, visit the 2015-16 Early Season Events hub.