Marquette University Athletics
Golden Eagles Alumni Team To Play For TBT Title
7/13/2020 12:32:00 PM | Men's Basketball
ESPN features 6 p.m. CT broadcast Tuesday night
Travis Diener, Jamil Wilson and the Golden Eagles, the Marquette alumni team, will meet the Marcus Keene-led Sideline Cancer in TBT 2020's championship game Tuesday night. The winner-take-all game for TBT's $1 million prize can be seen live at 6 p.m. CT/7 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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Sideline Cancer trailed four-time TBT champion Overseas Elite late before storming back to tie the game just before the Elam Ending. Former Indiana and George Washington standout Maurice Creek's contested 3-pointer gave Sideline Cancer a 67-65 win, preventing Joe Johnson and Overseas Elite a chance at a fifth TBT title. Keene, who led the nation in scoring in 2017 at Central Michigan, has dominated over the course of the tournament, averaging 20 points per game.
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Golden Eagles, a team composed of former Marquette basketball players, fell to Carmen's Crew, an Ohio State alumni team, in the TBT 2019 final. Wilson, Diener, Darius Johnson-Odom and Dwight Buycks - all former NBA players - lead the Golden Eagles, who beat Red Scare, a Dayton alumni team, 79-70 in Sunday's semifinals. Johnson-Odom and Wilson are tied for a team-best 17.3 points per game.
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Tuesday's championship game will conclude the 24-team event that began July 4, making TBT the first nationally-televised basketball tournament to be completed in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. TBT administered more than 2,000 COVID-19 tests since the middle of June and received just 43 positive results, for a positivity rate of just 2 percent.Â
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Sideline Cancer trailed four-time TBT champion Overseas Elite late before storming back to tie the game just before the Elam Ending. Former Indiana and George Washington standout Maurice Creek's contested 3-pointer gave Sideline Cancer a 67-65 win, preventing Joe Johnson and Overseas Elite a chance at a fifth TBT title. Keene, who led the nation in scoring in 2017 at Central Michigan, has dominated over the course of the tournament, averaging 20 points per game.
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Golden Eagles, a team composed of former Marquette basketball players, fell to Carmen's Crew, an Ohio State alumni team, in the TBT 2019 final. Wilson, Diener, Darius Johnson-Odom and Dwight Buycks - all former NBA players - lead the Golden Eagles, who beat Red Scare, a Dayton alumni team, 79-70 in Sunday's semifinals. Johnson-Odom and Wilson are tied for a team-best 17.3 points per game.
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Tuesday's championship game will conclude the 24-team event that began July 4, making TBT the first nationally-televised basketball tournament to be completed in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. TBT administered more than 2,000 COVID-19 tests since the middle of June and received just 43 positive results, for a positivity rate of just 2 percent.Â
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