Elevance Health Women's Fort Myers Tip-Off comes to Scripps Sports, ION in multiyear agreement

The E.W. Scripps CompanyApr 09, 2025, 09:00 ET First national women's college basketball rights deal for Scripps SportsATLANTA, April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ION will be the exclusive television home of the popularElevance HealthWomen's Fort Myers Tip-Off, a premier early season college basketball tournament, for the next five years as part of a new multiyear agreement between Scripps Sports and award-winning agency Intersport, which manages the tournament.The Elevance Health Women's Fort Myers Tip-Off, launched in 2022, has quickly established itself as one of the premier early season tournaments in the country, regularly bringing championship-caliber programs to Southwest Florida. In just a few short years, national champions such as South Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, Purdue and other powerhouse teams like Iowa State, DePaul, Michigan, Oklahoma and others have participated in the event.The agreement begins with this year's edition of the Thanksgiving weekend tournament, Nov. 28-29,...