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Game over.

You’ve probably heard about The Basketball Tournament… a single-elimination basketball tournament (as it turns out) coming to Philadelphia University on June 6-8. 32 teams were selected out of more than 100 applicant squads– 24 based on the size of their “fan group” and 8 selected by the tournament committee. The final two teams to come out of that opening weekend will advance to play in the championship game on June 28 at the fan-decided home court of one of the two teams, with the winning squad taking home $500k in cash.

The rules are only this: Players have to be 18 or older, a legal US resident, and willing to forgo any amateur status that they may have (with the NCAA). This is a straight-up cash tournament, the likes of which has never been seen before. Needless to say, many former college and fringe NBA players are in the tournament – such as Smush Parker and Rashad McCants on Big Apple Basketball – but the best, most cohesive group, according to biased Nova grads, might be Team Roby:

The city of brotherly love will be well represented in TBTROBY (Rock Out Be You) brings back Villanova’s 2009 Final Four team, including Scottie Reynolds, Dante Cunningham, Dwayne Anderson, Corey Fisher and Reggie Redding. This time around, however, the team’s singular goal is to win the whole thing in front of an adoring Philadelphia fan-base.  At least four other contenders list their hometown as Philadelphia.

Good God, they’re getting the squad back together.

The Basketball Tournament has gotten a lot of attention online. I’ve had a few teams reach out to me about being a supporter, sponsor or manager of some sort (so they could get enough fans to qualify), and though I would’ve loved to have gotten involved, it was too much of a time commitment (hence why I’m hiring a second person). But consider my support firmly tossed behind Team Roby and the 09 Cats. In fact… they could probably use some warmups:

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Tickets for TBT go on-sale May 22. You can read more details here.