Tag: The Basketball Tournament

If you are a basketball junkie and the BIG3, NBA free agency and summer league still are not enough to sate your summertime hoops appetite, add The Basketball Tournament to your roundball buffet. The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is a winner-take-all event that features a 64-team field spread across eight regions,( one of which is the famed Rucker Park) supremacy for which will be hashed out in games that are played in the last two weeks of July. Multiple regions will be populated by alumni teams of college and platers that…

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From thetournament: By: Josh Goldfine | @jgoldfine The fifth time was the charm for the Golden Eagles. Travis Diener hit a three-pointer to reach the Target Score and send the Marquette University alumni squad to its first TBT title – and $1 million prize – with a 78-73 victory over upset-minded Sideline Cancer. Diener, the 38-year-old guard who was on the golf course when he found out that his Golden Eagle teammates had signed him up to play in this summer’s tournament, reflected on how close his team had come to…

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From thetournament.com: By: Josh Goldfine | @jgoldfine THE GOLDEN EAGLES AND SIDELINE CANCER WILL PLAY FOR $1 MILLION ON TUESDAY NIGHT The battle for TBT’s $1 million prize began on Independence Day and will conclude with a new champion for the second straight year. The second-winningest team in TBT history, the Golden Eagles fell to Carmen’s Crew in the title game last summer after reaching the semi-finals in 2018. The Marquette University alumni squad looks to Darius Johnson-Odom and Jamil Wilson to pace the offensive attack, with each averaging 17.3 points per game. Wilson is particularly dangerous…

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From thetournament: By: Josh Goldfine | @jgoldfine In the end, the depth and experience of the TBT veterans proved to be the difference. Jamil Wilson had 18 of his game-high 23 points in the second half, and the Golden Eagles ran away from Red Scare in the fourth quarter, 79-70, to advance to their second straight TBT title game. Wilson, who scored 13 points in the fourth quarter and hit his fifth career Elam Ending game-winner, also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds for the Marquette University alumni squad, which closed the game on…

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From thetournament.com : By: TBT Staff | @thetournament The only seven-time TBT participant will finally get its chance at the ultimate prize. Mo Creek hit a three-pointer to cap a double-digit comeback and send Sideline Cancer to its first-ever TBT title game with a 67-65 win over four-time TBT champion Overseas Elite. “That might be the biggest shot of my career,” said Creek, who scored 10 second-half points after being shut out in the first half. “To do it here, on the biggest stage…oh my gosh. Once I shot it, I…

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By: Josh Goldfine | @jgoldfine THE TBT SEMIFINALS TIP OFF ON SUNDAY From thetournament.com : (4) Golden Eagles vs (8) Red Scare, 4 pm, ESPN t’s a matchup of midwestern alumni teams, with the winner headed to the $1 million title game on Tuesday night. The Golden Eagles look to win their first TBT title after falling just short against Carmen’s Crew in last year’s championship game. The Marquette University alumni squad relies on the scoring of Darius Johnson-Odom (19.5 ppg), Dwight Buycks (15.5 ppg) and Jamil Wilson (14.5 ppg, 7.0 rpg). Elgin Cook provides a strong inside presence, and the…

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