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Golden Eagles (TBT)
The Golden Eagles are an American basketball team that participates in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), an annual winner-take-all single-elimination tournament. The team first played in the tournament in 2016, was the runner-up in 2019, and won the championship (and $1 million prize) in 2020. The Golden Eagles' roster consists of professional basketball players who compete outside of the NBA, most of whom played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team. The TBT team is an independent entity that was named after the college team. History 2016: First tournament The "Golden Eagles Alumni" were the No. 6 seed in the Midwest region. Games Players * Maurice Acker * Dwight Burke * Dwight Buycks * Joe Chapman * Davante Gardner * Marcus Jackson * Darius Johnson-Odom * Trent Lockett * Jerel McNeal * Derrick Wilson * Jamil Wilson * Wesley Matthews (coach) * Travis Diener (asst. coach) Source: 2017: Second tournament The Golden Eagles were the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Basketball Tournament
The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an open-application, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the United States. The 2022 edition features 64 teams with a $1 million winner-take-all prize, broadcast by ESPN. TBT was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Mugar. Format Teams in TBT are arranged by the general manager, sometimes based on which college basketball program the players competed for. The tournament has had as many as 97 teams, in 2015, and as few as 24 teams, in 2020. Since 2016, the tournament has most often used a 64-team field. In 2019, the 64 teams were divided into eight regions, with each regional winner advancing to the championship venue. In 2020, the tournament field was reduced to 24 teams with all games played at a single venue, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In 2021, the 64 teams were organized into four regions, with each region's top two teams advancing to the championship venue. The 2022 event returned to the former eight-region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamil Wilson
Jamil Wilson (born November 21, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Club Nacional de Football of the Uruguayan Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol (LUB). He played college basketball for the University of Oregon and Marquette University. High school career Wilson attended Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin. As a junior, he averaged 18.3 points and 9.4 rebounds per game. In his senior season, the Associated Press first team all-state selection averaged 21.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. He led the Rebels to a 24-2 record and championship game appearance and was named the All-Racine County Player of the Year. Wilson was ranked the 30th-best overall player in his class by Scout.com and 31st in the ESPNU 100. College career Wilson began his collegiate career at the University of Oregon and averaged 4.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per game as a freshman, making 14 starts. He transferred to Marquette at the end of his freshman campaign and was forced to sit out th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeheim's Army
Boeheim's Army are an American basketball team that participates in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), an annual winner-take-all single-elimination tournament. The team's roster consists of professional basketball players who compete outside of the NBA, most of whom played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team. The TBT team is an independent entity that is named after Jim Boeheim, longtime coach of the college team. Boeheim's Army first played in the tournament in 2015; in 2021, they won the championship and a $1 million prize. History 2015 In TBT 2015, the team was seeded no. 1 in the Northeast Regional and received a first-round bye. 2016 In TBT 2016, the team was seeded no. 2 in the Northeast Regional. 2017 For TBT 2017, the team was seeded no. 3 in the Northeast Region. 2018 For TBT 2018, the team was seeded no. 1 in the Northeast Region. 2019 For TBT 2019, the team was seeded no. 1 in the Syracuse Regional. 2020 Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely distributed. It is currently owned by the Gannett Company.Gannett Completes Acquisition of Journal Media Group . ''USA Today'', April 11, 2016. In early 2003, the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' began printing operations at a new printing facility in West Milwaukee. In September 2006, the ''Journal Sentinel'' announced it had "signed a five-year agreement to print the national edition of '' |
Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States, and the second largest city on Lake Michigan's shore behind Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest. Milwaukee is considered a global city, categorized as "Gamma minus" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Today, Milwaukee is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the U.S. However, it continues to be one of the most racially segregated, largely as a result of early-20th-century redlining. Its history was heavily influenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Blackledge
Lawrence Blackledge (born November 24, 1985) is an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed Lawrence "Trend" Blackledge. The Basketball Tournament Lawrence Blackledge played for the Golden Eagles in the 2018 edition of The Basketball Tournament. In 5 games, he averaged 3.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game. The Golden Eagles reached the semi-finals before falling to Overseas Elite. Career statistics , - , align="left" , 2010–11 , align="left" , Osaka , 42 , , 15 , , 24.2 , , 52.4 , , 34.1 , , 53.3 , , 7.7 , , 1.6 , , 1.1 , , 2.2 , , 10.2 , - , align="left" , 2011–12 , align="left" , Osaka , 22 , , 22 , , 31.5 , , 40.7 , , 22.2 , , 53.7 , , 10.0 , , 3.2 , , 1.3 , , 3.0 , , 9.4 , - , align="left" , 2011–12 , align="left" , Hamamatsu , 28 , , 28 , , 19.8 , , 49.3 , , 22.2 , , 53.8 , , 5.2 , , 1.2 , , 0.9 , , 2.1 , , 9.1 , - , align="left" , 2012–13 , align="left" , Iwate , 32 , , 22 , , 27.1, , 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Anderson
Juan Ronel Toscano-Anderson (born April 10, 1993) is a Mexican-American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2022. Early life and career Born in East Oakland, California, Toscano-Anderson's father is African-American, and his mother is Mexican-American; his maternal grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Michoacán in the 1960s. Toscano-Anderson grew up speaking Spanish and celebrating Mexican holidays as well as American holidays since he was born and raised in the United States. His current jersey number of 95 is a tribute to his boyhood home on Oakland's 95th Avenue. During his high school and college years, Toscano-Anderson self identified as Juan Anderson for simplicity reasons. As a senior, he led Castro Valley High School to a record-setting campaign in the 2010-11 season, posting the program' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlet & Gray
Carmen's Crew are an American basketball team that has participated in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), an annual winner-take-all single-elimination tournament. The team first played in the tournament in 2017 under the name Scarlet & Gray, and won the championship (and $2 million prize) in 2019. The team's roster consists of professional basketball players who compete outside of the NBA, most of whom played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team. The TBT team is an independent entity that was previously named after the college team's colors (scarlet and gray), and is currently named after Ohio State The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...'s school song (" Carmen Ohio"). The team last competed in the 2021 edition of TBT. History 2017 Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoria, Illinois
Peoria ( ) is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and the largest city on the Illinois River. As of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, the city had a population of 113,150. It is the principal city of the Peoria Metropolitan Area in Central Illinois, consisting of the counties of Fulton County, Illinois, Fulton, Marshall County, Illinois, Marshall, Peoria County, Illinois, Peoria, Stark County, Illinois, Stark, Tazewell County, Illinois, Tazewell, and Woodford County, Illinois, Woodford, which had a population of 402,391 in 2020. Established in 1691 by the French explorer Henri de Tonti, Peoria is the oldest permanent European settlement in Illinois according to the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. Originally known as Fort Clark, it received its current name when the Peoria County, County of Peoria organized in 1825. The city was named after the Peoria tribe, a member of the Illinois Confederation. On October 16, 1854, Abraham Lincoln made A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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