Former Maryland men’s basketball star Dez Wells will play in the $1 million winner-take-all The Basketball Tournament, a 24-team competition that will be played over 10 days in Columbus, Ohio, starting July 4.
Wells will play for Team CP3, which includes former members of NBA star point guard Chris Paul’s Amateur Athletic Union program. The team reached the Greensboro Regional Final in 2019 and will also feature former North Carolina players Kennedy Meeks and P.J. Hairston. No. 13 seed Team CP3′s first game is July 4 against No. 20 seed Mid-American Unity. All games will be televised on ESPN’s family of networks.