Going into this year’s edition of The Basketball Tournament, Ohio State alumni team Carmen’s Crew – and every other team in TBT – has had to deal with a different set of challenges and protocol.
Unlike last year, when Carmen’s Crew won a 64-team tournament played in various cities across several weeks, this year’s TBT features a bracket of just 24 teams and is being played in entirely one city – as luck would have it, Carmen’s Crew’s home city of Columbus – over the course of just 10 days. Players and coaches have been forced to quarantine and stay within a “bubble” for the duration of their time in the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic.