The Basketball Tournament 2024 was the eleventh edition of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a 5-on-5, single elimination basketball tournament with a $1 million winner-take-all prize. The tournament, involving 64 teams, began on July 19 and ended on August 4 with the championship game at the Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The tournament format was similar to that of the last edition in 2023—64 teams, each playing in one of eight regionals.
The event had a "championship week", starting with the regional winners advancing to quarterfinals at one of two sites, Houston and Louisville. The quarterfinal winners then traveled to Philadelphia for the semifinals and championship game. Carmen's Crew, a team mostly made up of Ohio State alumni, won the tournament.
Format For its 2024 edition, TBT retained its traditional 64-team format and eight-region format, with each regional involving eight teams at a single host site (similar in format to the NCAA Division II men's and women's tournaments).
The teams and the regional placements for all entrants were revealed in a selection special hosted by Andrew Zoldan with John Fanta that aired on TBT's YouTube channel on June 26, 2024.
As with previous years, all tournament games operate with the "Elam Ending", a format of ending the game without use of a game clock. Under the Elam Ending, the clock is turned off at the first dead-ball whistle with 4 minutes or less to play in the game. At that time, a target score, equal to the score of the leading team (or tied teams) plus eight, is set, and the first team to reach this target score is declared the winner of the game. Thus, all games end on a made basket (field goal or free throw) and there is no overtime.
Venues The Basketball Tournament 2024 featured games in nine locations, eight of which hosted a regional. The ninth hosted the championship weekend (two semifinal contests and the championship game). Official regional names, if different from the location names, are indicated in the listings below the location names.
Butler(Indianapolis) Cincinnati Dayton Hinkle Fieldhouse Fifth Third Arena UD Arena Capacity: 12,012 Capacity: 13,409 Capacity: 7,100 Houston Lexington(Kentucky) Louisville Fertitta Center Rupp Arena Freedom Hall Capacity: 9,100 Capacity: 20,500 Capacity: 18,865 Pittsburgh Wichita(Wichita State) Philadelphia(Drexel, Championship) Petersen Events Center Charles Koch Arena Daskalakis Athletic Center Capacity: 12,508 Capacity: 10,506 Capacity: 2,509
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TBT has a history of teams rostered primarily with alumni from specific NCAA Division I college basketball programs; 29 such teams entered the 2024 tournament. One is drawn from NCAA Division II alumni, another is drawn from NCAA Division III alumni.
Name College or sponsor affiliation Source of team name Region 305 Ballers Main area code for Miami, Florida, where the team is based Lexington AfterShocks Wichita State alumni School nickname of Shockers Wichita All Good Dawgs Butler alumni School nickname of Bulldogs Butler Assembly Ball Indiana alumni Assembly Hall home arena Butler Austin's Own Texas alumni School location in Austin Houston Best Virginia West Virginia alumni Pittsburgh Bleed Green North Texas alumni School nickname of Mean Green Houston Brotherly Love Pro Am Foundation Pittsburgh Brown Ballers Made up of brown athletes Cincinnati Carmen's Crew Ohio State alumni "Carmen Ohio", Ohio State's school song Dayton D2 Waymakers Former NCAA Division II athletes Lexington DaGuys STL Team YouTube channel, with players mainly from Greater St. Louis Dayton Dream 34 Wendell Scott Foundation Formerly "Virginia Dream", Scott's racing number was 34) Cincinnati Dubois Dream Based out of Dubois, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Eberlein Drive Team owners' home street Butler Fail Harder Butler Florida TNT Wichita Forever Coogs Houston alumni Houston Cougars mascot Houston Fort Wayne Champs Players with connections to Fort Wayne, Indiana Butler Happy Valley Hoopers Penn State alumni Location of the school in Happy Valley Pittsburgh Heartfire MedImpact Arizona nonprofit HeartFire Missions, a provider of Christian medical mission trips Dayton Herd That Marshall alumni School nickname of Thundering Herd Lexington Herkimer Originals ABA team from Herkimer, New York Pittsburgh Jackson TN Underdawgs Players with connections to Jackson, Tennessee Lexington LA Cheaters Drew League Wichita La Familia Kentucky alumni Ode to recently departed coach John Calipari's Italian heritage; also name of a UK basketball NIL collective Lexington Los Angeles Ignite TBL team from Los Angeles Houston Mass Street Kansas alumni Short for Massachusetts Street, the main street through the central business district of the school's home of Lawrence Wichita Men of Mackey Purdue alumni Purdue home court Mackey Arena Butler Midtown Prestige TBL team from Wichita, Kansas Wichita Million $ Worth of Game Pittsburgh Nasty Nati Cincinnati alumni Nickname of the city of Cincinnati Cincinnati Once a Bronco Boise State alumni Boise State Broncos mascot Houston Purple Hearts Gun violence awareness Dayton Purple Reign Kansas State alumni Kansas State school colors Wichita Ram Up Colorado State alumni School nickname of Rams Wichita Red Rose Thunder ECBL team from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Cincinnati Red Scare Dayton alumni Name of Dayton student section Dayton Rise & Grind Dayton Run DFW Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Louisville Shield 219 Valparaiso alumni Butler Sideline Cancer Pancreatic cancer awareness Louisville Stars of Storrs UConn alumni Charles and Augustus Storrs, establishers of the Storrs Agricultural School (now the University of Connecticut) Pittsburgh Sweet Home Alabama Players from the state of Alabama Dayton Takeover BC Cincinnati Team Aboutbillions About Billions Production company of Adrien Broner Cincinnati Team Arkansas Arkansas alumni Butler Team Colorado Colorado alumni Wichita Team Diesel Louisville Team DRC Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Louisville Team Fredette Team member and organizer Jimmer Fredette Louisville Team Gibson Team sponsor Taj Gibson Cincinnati Houston New Mexico alumni State nickname: "Land of Enchantment" Houston Team representing Gwinnett County, GA also known as “Nawf” Atlanta Lexington Houston Louisville alumni City nickname Louisville UKnighted Bellarmine alumni Bellarmine Knights nickname and mascot Louisville Veniceball Louisville War Ready Auburn alumni School battle cry "War Eagle" Lexington We Are D3 NCAA Division III alumni Dayton Woco Showtime Wofford alumni Institutional name of Wofford College Lexington Zip Em Up Xavier alumni Former Xavier team motto Cincinnati Zoo Crew Pittsburgh alumni Oakland Zoo student section Pittsburgh Note: team names are per the TBT bracket; some names have slight variation on TBT website pages.
Tournament bracket Six of the eight no. 1 seeds advanced in first-round play, with no. 7 Takeover BC upsetting Red Rose Thunder in the Cincinnati Regional.
Three no. 1 seeds advanced in second-round play; the lowest seed to advance to the third round was no 8. Team DRC from the Louisville Regional.
No no. 1 seeds advanced in third-round play; the lowest seed to advance to the quarterfinals was again Takeover BC.
The lowest seed to advance to the semifinals was no 6. Eberlein Drive from the Butler Regional.
In the first semifinal game, Eberlein Driver were eliminated by Forever Coogs, the no. 2 seed from the Houston Regional.
In the second semifinal game, La Familia were eliminated by Carmen's Crew, the no. 3 seed from the Dayton Regional.
Carmen's Crew then defeated Forever Coogs in the championship game.
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Butler Regional – Hinkle Fieldhouse
Pittsburgh Regional – Petersen Events Center
Houston Regional – Fertitta Center
Wichita Regional – Charles Koch Arena
Cincinnati Regional – Fifth Third Arena
Dayton Regional – UD Arena
Lexington Regional – Rupp Arena
Louisville Regional – Freedom Hall
Championship Week Quarterfinals games were played at Houston and Louisville. All semifinal and championship games were played in Philadelphia.
Eric Collins, Nick Bahe, and Cayleigh Griffin were the announcers for both semifinal matches and the championship game.
Semifinals
Championship
Awards
+ All Tournament Team Pos Player Team PG Rob Gray Forever Coogs PG Kerem Kanter La Familia SG Sam Sessoms Happy Valley Hoopers PG Tyler Stone Eberlein Drive PF Jared Sullinger Carmen's CrewCoach Jordan Surenkamp Eberlein DriveGM Twany Beckham La Familia
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