Creek has played early on and they've made mention of his time at GW. Former Maryland star Diamond Stone is also on Sideline Cancer. Team Hines has former Wisconsin star Ethan Happ and former William & Mary star/local D.C.area product Marcus Thornton, some of you may also remember him starring at the Kenner League when he was in college. 

FQ(or anyone else), did you see the end of the final TBT game played earlier today? Red Scare(mostly Dayton alums) led the Illinois alums 80-61 and had a target score of 82, and they came THAT close to losing the game. The Illinois team cut it to 80-74, then 81-76 and had 2 possessions/clean looks to actually win it. Dayton appeared to miss 10 straight shots when they got to 80 points. They were able to pull it out after a player hit a free throw, and then won it after a missed shot/long rebound led to an uncontested, fast break dunk.

An interesting note on Dayton's team is they actually have 2 seniors from the 2019-2020 team playing in Ryan Mikesell and Trey Landers. I'm now pulling for Red Scare to win the TBT because Dayton never got a chance to play in the NCAA tournament. R.Mikesell and T.Landers never got a chance to make that deep NCAA tournament run. It will probably be a long time before Dayton or even the A10 produces a dominant, Final 4 contender with an All-World player again. Red Scare should bring in Obi Toppin as a ringer for the semifinal and/or final!! HA! 

FQ is right about Sideline Cancer being a big underdog again tomorrow, Boeheim's Army is always one of the favorites in this tournament since they are made up of a lot of Boeheim's former star players.  

Free Quebec wrote:

Thomas wrote:

FQ(or anyone else), did you see the end of the final TBT game played earlier today? Red Scare(mostly Dayton alums) led the Illinois alums 80-61 and had a target score of 82, and they came THAT close to losing the game. The Illinois team cut it to 80-74, then 81-76 and had 2 possessions/clean looks to actually win it. Dayton appeared to miss 10 straight shots when they got to 80 points. They were able to pull it out after a player hit a free throw, and then won it after a missed shot/long rebound led to an uncontested, fast break dunk.

An interesting note on Dayton's team is they actually have 2 seniors from the 2019-2020 team playing in Ryan Mikesell and Trey Landers. I'm now pulling for Red Scare to win the TBT because Dayton never got a chance to play in the NCAA tournament. R.Mikesell and T.Landers never got a chance to make that deep NCAA tournament run. It will probably be a long time before Dayton or even the A10 produces a dominant, Final 4 contender with an All-World player again. Red Scare should bring in Obi Toppin as a ringer for the semifinal and/or final!! HA! 

FQ is right about Sideline Cancer being a big underdog again tomorrow, Boeheim's Army is always one of the favorites in this tournament since they are made up of a lot of Boeheim's former star players.  

I haven’t watched a single minute of it. I just happened to see the odds before the tourney and then yesterday I looked at results.

It is interesting that to cut down on boring end games and fouling, the rule they use is that with something like 5 minutes left, a target score is set of I think 7 points more than the leading team has. That means no fouling or slowing it down to milk the clock, and I guess it can lead to a big comeback like the one you described.

HA! I thought you were watching. They mentioned that you can actually play fanduel with the TBT players too. The Elam ending takes effect at the 4 minute mark of the 4th quarter and the target score is 8

I believe Creek had 22 points and 8 rebounds for Sideline Cancer, they interviewed him after the game. The Syracuse team was actually playing Boeheim's 2-3 zone for the entire game, it was funny seeing his former players(the guy coaching them played for Boeheim too) using the defensive principals that Boeheim drilled into all of them years ago.

Sideline Cancer plays Overseas Elite tonight at 6PM on ESPN in a semifinal, Former NBA All-Star Joe Johnson is playing for Overseas Elite. Dayton's team(Red Scare) will play Marquette's team in the first semifinal at 4. 

Pretty exciting watching last few minutes with my boys. We were reminiscing about the shot against MD and I had just sent a video of it to a buddy when Mo did it again!



 

Thomas, I watched the first half yesterday and then planned on watching the second half during lunch today.  This morning, I saw that you added a post to the thread but stopped myself from reading it, which i am obviously very glad I did.  Mo also had two other big second half 3's in addition to the game winner, and he kept a crucial loose ball alive which led to a critical bucket down the stretch for one of his teammates (Artis, I think).  Mo will take home $75,000 with a win on Tuesday, or nothing with a loss.  Overseas Elite,. the team that Mo just eliminated, is a 4 time champion of this event (2015-2018).  Incredible finish.    

The only way I'd be interested in watching guys in their 30s who used to play college hoops is:
1. Severe Boredom
2. GW signed up a team

Hoping for the latter, and against the former, when I am super bored, I open the site to see 1 man using 11 names to have convos with each other in the dead of summer
 

Agreed Thomas.  There have been several GW shout-outs (though more mentions of Indiana and how Mo could not finish a season healthy there).  Am guessing approx. 400,000 viewers for tonight's final, not a huge number but decent exposure nevertheless for Mo (and hopefully, for GW). 

The TBT has helped fill a basketball void that many of us have as a result of current circumstances.
Having Mo Creek and team get to the finals has made it even better. Mo, Armwood, Kopriva, Garino, Cavanaugh and so many others were not only great players but great ambassador's to our school and team. Hoping Mo and company get the win tonight. After tonight's final, we come back to reality and debate if we end up in 10th or 11th of the A-10 standings in whatever year we start back up. Life could be worse. You could be a former serial poster using 15 different monikers who lives in his parents basement!