For the second straight summer, Pacers guard Darren Collison is coaching Team Challenge ALS in The Basketball Tournament, an open-application, single-elimination tournament featuring 64 teams competing for a $2 million grand prize. Last year, Collison guided the team all the way to the title game, where they fell 86-83 to Overseas Elite.
Collison and crew are back for another year, looking to improve on last year's runner-up finish. They tipped off action last week, winning two games to advance to the regional semifinals.
Team Challenge ALS was assembled by Sean Marshall, a former Boston College star who was inspired by the story of Pete Frates, his college roommate who is suffering from ALS and popularized the Ice Bucket Challenge as a way to promote awareness of the disease.