As the State Farm Holiday
Classic issues press releases, you will be able to find them
here. Additionally, we've included news featuring
Classic participants and instances of the Classic in the news...
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State Farm Holiday Classic announces scholarship winners
Bloomington, IL – The Classic Tournament, Inc., which
organizes the largest coed high school holiday basketball
tournament in the nation called the State Farm Holiday
Classic, has selected five winners as recipients of the 2008
Holiday Classic Scholarship award. Each of the winners will
receive a $1,000 scholarship to go directly to their college
of choice to help pay for tuition costs ...
read more.
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Tournament Tidbits:
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4
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2007 Website Traffic
Day 3:
Approximately 5600 unique visitors browsed 120,000 pages on Day
3
-- totaling about 950,000 hits.
Day 2:
Approximately 5000 unique visitors browsed 101,000 pages on Day
2
-- totaling about 800,000 hits.
Day 1:
Approximately 3500 unique visitors browsed 75,000 pages on Day 1
-- totaling about 600,000 hits.
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Pantagraph.com contests
Pantagraph.com is holding two U Pick 'Em contests related to
the Holiday Classic.
Boys Pick 'Em |
Girls Pick 'Em
These and other contests can be found at
pantagraph.com/upickem
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Brackets Released for 2007
Classic
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All-tournament passes are on sale at the following
schools. For each pass sold, $5.00 will be donated back
to that school by the Holiday Classic. Participating schools
include Bloomington Central Catholic, Champaign St. Thomas
More, Galesburg (girls
team), Morton, Olney East Richland, Roanoke-Benson, Rock Falls, Rock
Island Alleman (girls), St. Joe-Ogden 9boys), Sherrard, Spring Valley Hall, and
Williamsville.
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Pre's Eye to film select Holiday Classic games, offer
DVD's for purchase immediately following game
Pre's Eye Video Productions will be a Classic Sponsor of
this year's tournament, providing the opportunity for fans
and teams to purchase a DVD of the game they just watched,
immediately after it is over. They will be set up at both
the IWU Shirk Center and the ISU Redbird Arena (and Normal
Community High School on Dec. 28) and will be filming all of
the games that take place at those two sites. This will
include all Championship, Third Place and semi-final games
in all brackets.
Once each game is over, representatives from Pre's Eye will
be selling DVD copies of that game. If you are interested,
please place your order before the end of that game.
Locations to purchase will be in the concourse areas of the
Shirk Center, Normal Community High School (Dec. 28 only),
and near the lower north entrance at Redbird Arena.
Pre's Eye Video Productions have been offering great quality
film for 4 years now, predominately filming Chicago area
high school events. They have also filmed for SEADO
Enterprises in The McNabb Challenge Five Star Pro-Clinic
High School Football Combine in both Chicago and
Philadelphia.
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2007
Classic Field Announced
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State Farm Holiday Classic Gives Back to Intercity Schools
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2007
Scholarship Winners Announced
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Brittany
Johnson: Illinois' All-time Career Prep Hoops Scoring Leader
December 28, 2006
Johnson becomes Illinois’ all-time prep hoops scoring
record-holder
December 26, 2006
Illinois all-time prep hoops scoring record will likely fall
this week
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2006 Website Traffic
Day 1:
Nearly 4000 unique visitors browsed 80,000 pages on Day 1
-- totaling over 600,000 hits.
Day 2: Over 5000 unique visitors browsed 104,000
pages on Day 2 -- totaling nearly 900,000 hits.
Day 3:
Nearly 5500 unique visitors browsed 106,000
pages on Day 3 -- totaling nearly 900,000 hits.
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Tournament Tidbits
Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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December 13, 2006
Pairings released
for 2006 State Farm Holiday Classic
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August 17, 2006
Hotel
Information Available for the 2006 Classic
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May 1,
2006
State Farm Holiday Classic announces four scholarship winners
High
Profile Players, Teams Highlight 2006 State Farm Holiday Classic
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December 20, 2005
Special Olympics portion of
State Farm Holiday Classic renamed in tribute
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December 15, 2005
Brackets
unveiled for 2005 State Farm Holiday Classic
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Tickets Now On Sale
[read
more]
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April 11, 2005
State
Tournament Hardware Highlights 2005 State Farm Holiday Classic
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Feb. 22, 2005
A
Classic Elite Eight gears up for the weekend.
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2004 All
Tournament Teams & Final Results
All Tournament Teams have been announced for Boys A & AA, and
Girls A & AA ... Final results of each bracket are also posted [read
more].
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Special Olympics to Compete at The Classic
Be sure to check out all the
action during the day at Shirk and during halftime of the
championship games on the main Shirk Center floor [read
more].
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2004 Classic Draws Crowds
The fans have come out in force for the 2004 Classic.
The success of several area and local teams, as well as the
strength of competition, has led to some packed houses, with
more expected for this evening's championship games.
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Website Traffic
The first three days of the tournament brought several
visitors to theclassic.org. Nearly 75,000 pages were
viewed as the site received over 1 million hits.
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Dec. 18, 2004
Officials Assignments are
posted
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Dec. 16, 2004 |
Brackets unveiled for 2004
Classic
Read the press release
that includes seeds and pairings
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Nov. 29, 2004
State
Farm® extends its title sponsorship of largest co-ed
holiday high school basketball tourney in the country
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May 03, 2004
State and National Powers Highlight 2004 State
Farm Holiday Classic
