Events like the Players Era Festival -- a “first-of-its-kind, NIL-driven” basketball tournament featuring some of the top programs in the nation -- could “just be the beginning” for collegiate basketball programs looking for ways to earn money to fund NIL.

Kevin Armstrong is an enterprise reporter and photographer for NJ Advance Media. His narratives have been recognized by the National Press Club, the Society for Features Journalism and the National Headliner Awards. He was an executive producer for “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” a Netflix docuseries.