NJCAA national basketball tournament large impact to Joplin economy

The city council getting a report from the Joplin Sports Authority director Jared Bruggerman on the impact from the recent NJCAA championship played at Missouri Southern.  

Joplin Mayor Pro Tem, Josh Detar told Newstalk KZRG:

“Their (NJCAA) national championship that we hosted here, we hosted out at Missouri Southern Leggett & Platt Center. And I think it was over a six day period. But some of the people, the participants, coaches, support staff, come in for a couple of days before that, one to two. So we're talking about seven to 10 days that we've got people coming into town. And that's just the participants, not to mention their families. But that event alone, just from the participants that were in it, brought in about $900,000 into the Joplin economy. So if we want to count the referees, the staff, the coaches, we're talking well over a million dollars of money that came into our town.”