On Tuesday, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) announced its partnership with Google Cloud Platform, CBS Sports and Turner Sports.<\/p>\n
The partnership will see the NCAA’s history of sports move to Google Cloud with machine learning tools and analytics.<\/p>\n
The NCAA has a massive amount of information in its archives, with more than 80 years of game data across 24 sports and 19,000 teams.<\/p>\n
Dan Gavitt, NCAA senior vice president for basketball, said to Forbes: <\/em>\u201cPartnering with a brand that is without reproach and an expert in their field at a worldwide level is so exciting.<\/p>\n \u201cIt helps change many of the things we hope to accomplish in analytics and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n With the NCAA\u2019s team and game data on Google\u2019s cloud, fans will get the opportunity to watch games and compare how teams perform in certain conditions.<\/p>\n Tariq Shaukat, Google Cloud\u2019s president of global alliances and industry platforms, added: \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity that doesn\u2019t come around all that often.<\/p>\n \u201cWe think it will substantially help with operations and the fan experience, and we think it\u2019s a wonderful show-versus-tell opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National College Athletic Association (NCAA) announces its partnership with Google Cloud Platform, CBS Sports and Turner Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,871],"tags":[377,2408,1546,2407,2406,2409,899],"yoast_head":"\n‘Helping with fan experience’<\/h2>\n