Elgin Cook led all scorers with 15 points and Dwight Buycks missed a double-double by one assist as top seeded Golden Eagles knocked off #16 seed B1 Ballers, 94-66, in the first round of 2021’s edition of The Basketball Tournament on Sunday evening.
It was, to a certain extent, a standard issue 1 vs 16 game in a 64 team tournament setting. The Marquette alumni team spent the first quarter figuring themselves out and figuring their opponent out. That’s how you end up with the defending TBT champs trailing 20-19 after the first nine minutes were done.