The Big Time Tournament, one of basketball's premier summer high school events, is going to continue despite Sonny Vaccaro, the event's founder, stepping down from his position at Reebok.

The event, scheduled from July 22 to 26, will have a new name -- the "Reebok Summer Championships."

"The tournament will continue as is," said Reebok's Chris Rivers. "We decided it was time to give it a new name because frankly, without Sonny involved, it's not the Big Time."

Vaccaro, Reebok's director of grassroots basketball, left Jan. 15.

"I'm very proud of what I've been able to accomplish in summer basketball," Vaccaro said from his Los Angeles home. He started the tournament in 1995 with 64 teams, and the event grew to as many as 404 teams in 2003.

The Big Time, which fielded 334 teams from 42 states and Canada and Australia last year, attracts some of the nation's top teams and players. The last couple of years saw Ohio State freshman Greg Oden, Duke sophomore Josh McRoberts and future collegiate players O.J. Mayo and Kevin Love participate in Vaccaro's event.

Vaccaro said he has released the 12 gyms the tournament rents every July back to the Clark County School District. Rivers said the company will move quickly to secure the facilities. Former Green Valley High School coach Jim Allen will continue to oversee the tournament.

"It will be scaled down, how much, I can't say for sure," Rivers said.

Vaccaro, who also stepped aside from running his other summer basketball event -- the ABCD Camp in New Jersey-- had two years remaining on his Reebok contract. But he said it was better to sever ties sooner rather than later.

"Honestly, it's not that tough to walk away," he said. "I'm tired of being the pinata for summer basketball."

Vaccaro, 67, said he plans to write a book about his life.

• NORTH CAROLINA STATE -- Hall of Fame coach Kay Yow will return to the Wolfpack women's basketball team after a two-month leave to treat a cancer recurrence.

The 64-year-old coach plans to resume her duties today, with her first game Thursday against Atlantic Coast Conference rival Virginia.

Yow was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and left the team in November after doctors found her cancer was progressing.

She started chemotherapy in combination with new therapies. Dr. Mark Graham, Yow's longtime oncologist, said she will continue those treatments through the season.

• TENNESSEE -- Junior guard Chris Lofton will miss Wednesday night's game at Mississippi with a sprained right ankle, and Volunteers coach Bruce Pearl said it was unclear when he will return.

The Southeastern Conference's leading scorer at 21.5 points a game, Lofton sprained his ankle early in the second half of Saturday's 64-61 victory over South Carolina.