Business Careers in Entertainment Club

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Second Annual King of the Court

by Heather Haemker
Indiana Daily Student

Published Friday, April 13, 2007

For basketball enthusiasts, the Business Careers in Entertainment Club will be holding the second annual King of the Court basketball tournament this Saturday at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation building from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

BCEC is a student-run organization that helps students gain experience in the business aspects of planning and putting on a variety of events.

“The purpose is to allow students to get involved in the business end of organizing a sporting event,” said Emily Finkelstein, director of the sports committee for BCEC.

Finkelstein said the tournament is run in an NCAA bracket format. As of Wednesday, 48 teams were signed up to participate, which consist of enrolled IU students. The tournament is three-on-three. Registration closed at 5 p.m. Wednesday, with some of the proceeds from the registration fees being donated to a local charity.

“It’s a great way for students and the community to get involved for the love of basketball since Indiana is such a big basketball school,” Finkelstein said.

There are five sponsors for the event including the title sponsor, Hoosierbeat.com, which is making King of the Court T-shirts that students and people in the community can buy for $10. David Modiano, co-director of the BCEC sports committee, said the cost to watch the basketball tournament and to enjoy the other various activities is $3.

“People can get a really good sense of the talent on campus,” said Modiano.

Besides watching the tournament, students can play the latest EA Sports video games in a designated area, as well as drink and dine on free Bucceto’s pizza and RockStar energy drinks. In addition, there will be various shooting contests, such as a half-court shot.

“It was a lot of fun to compete with students around campus, playing for an end prize rather than just a normal pick up game,” Modiano said of his participation in last year’s event.

For participating teams, sponsors of the event will be giving out raffle prizes to the winning team. In addition, the business club will be awarding the winning team a plaque, Finkelstein said.

BCEC members have been involved since the beginning, getting sponsors, marketing, publicity and coordination of event rules, Finkelstein said. To become a member of the club, students pay a $20 fee that grants them a full year of membership. Members can be voted into certain committees within the group such as performing arts, sports, television and film, according to the BCEC Web site.

“Based on the number of teams, I think we got a lot of people that liked the tournament last year and have come back again this year,” Modiano said.