Hello and welcome back to The Basketball Tournament!
Action in this summer’s Winner-Take-All 64 team single elimination event gets started on Saturday, bright and early, with eight games in two different regions. There will be four games coming at you from Omaha, Nebraska, as Creighton’s D.J. Sokol Arena plays host to that region, while the other four games will be played outdoors at New York City’s legendary Rucker Park.
The only down side to the schedule for today? Both regions have the exact same tipoff times. No staggered start times! I get that with three of the eight games going on ESPN2, TBT has to work with ESPN’s constraints, but it would have been fun to be able to click away from one game as it ended and go straight into the fourth quarter of another game.