The Basketball Tournament 2022

The Basketball Tournament
2022
Tournament information
Location
Regional sites
Quarterfinal sites
  • Dayton, Ohio
  • Wichita, Kansas
Championship site
  • Dayton, Ohio
DatesJuly 16–August 2, 2022
Tournament
format(s)
Single elimination
Participants64 teams
PurseChampionship: US$1,000,000 winner-take-all
Final positions
ChampionsBlue Collar U
Runner-upAmericana for Austism
Tournament statistics
MVPC. J. Massinburg
Top scorer(s)C. J. Massinburg (94 pts)[1]
Games played63
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The Basketball Tournament 2022 was the ninth edition of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a 5-on-5, single elimination basketball tournament with a $1 million winner-take-all prize. The tournament, involving 64 teams, began on July 16 and ended on August 2 with the championship game in Dayton, Ohio. The tournament format was similar to that of the last pre-COVID-19 edition in 2019—64 teams, each playing in one of eight regionals.

For the first time, the event had a "championship week", starting with the regional winners advancing to quarterfinals at one of two sites, Dayton and Wichita, Kansas. The quarterfinal winners then traveled to (or remained in) Dayton for the semifinals and championship game. Blue Collar U, a team primarily rostered with alumni of the Buffalo Bulls men's basketball program, won the tournament.[2]

  1. ^ "Stats: Leaders". thetournament.com. 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Borzello, Jeff (August 2, 2022). "Blue Collar U downs Americana for Autism, takes home $1 million The Basketball Tournament title". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 2, 2022.