What seemed like a funny and fun idea has become a summer phenomenon. The Basketball Tournament, a 64-team single-elimination tournament featuring ex-NBA players and overseas professionals, has become a fairly large tournament. The real carrot for college basketball fans is that many of their favorites will come back to play in the tournament - and be featured on the ESPN coverage of the games.
The carrot for the players is some fan love and a $2 million prize.
Our interest here, of course, is the team with two former St. John's players, D.J. Kennedy and Paris Horne that has won two years in a row.