The Basketball Event Releases 2025 Bracket Forward of $1M, Winner-Take-All Occasion

The Basketball Event (TBT) is returning to FOX Sports activities this summer season.

The $1 million, winner-take-all match is about to get underway on July 18 and can function 26 video games broadcast dwell on FOX, FS1 and FS2. The one-elimination match will likely be cut up into eight separate areas, with every hosted by alumni groups representing domestically famend school basketball packages. 

The sphere contains the alumni groups representing Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Ohio State, Syracuse, UConn and extra. Lots of the high contributors within the 2024 occasion are set to return this yr, together with the likes of Willie Cauley-Stein (Kentucky), Montrezl Harrell (Louisville), Russ Smith (Louisville) and Yogi Ferrell (Indiana). 

There may even be a number of big-name newcomers within the 2025 model of TBT, together with former first-round NBA Draft decide Archie Goodwin, who will play for La Familia (Kentucky alumni) and former Syracuse famous person Buddy Boeheim, who will play for Boeheim’s Military (Syracuse alumni).

For the eighth consecutive yr, TBT will function the Elam Ending, a format the place the sport clock is turned off at a predetermined time within the fourth quarter, and a “goal rating” is about. The primary group to succeed in that focus on rating wins the sport.

This yr’s occasion may even function TBT’s “House Court docket Benefit”, which is able to enable host groups to play video games of their residence enviornment all through the championship recreation. “House Court docket Benefit” was decided by a race to 4,000 tickets bought. Louisville followers received the race, and can now have the best to host the quarterfinals, semifinals, and the championship recreation so long as the Louisville alumni group continues to win. 

Here’s a have a look at the entire 2025 TBT schedule:

Regional Host Places – July 18-23

• Memorial Coliseum – Lexington, Ky. – headlined by La Familia (Kentucky alumni)
• Freedom Corridor – Louisville, Ky. – headlined by The Ville (Louisville alumni)
• Hinkle Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, Ind. – headlined by All Good Dawgs (Butler alumni) and Meeting Ball (Indiana alumni)
• SRC Area – Syracuse, NY – headlined by Boeheim’s Military (Syracuse alumni)
• Charles Koch Area – Wichita, Kan. – headlined by AfterShocks (Wichita State alumni)
• Municipal Area – Kansas Metropolis, Mo. – headlined by JHX Hoops (Kansas alumni) and Purple Reign (Kansas State alumni)
• Atlantic Union Financial institution Middle – Harrisonburg, Va. – headlined by Founding Fathers (James Madison alumni)
• Charleston Coliseum and Conference Middle – Charleston, W.Va. – headlined by Greatest Virginia (West Virginia alumni)

Quarterfinals

• July 27 and 28 (residence courtroom benefit awarded to host groups that advance)

Championship Weekend Schedule

• Semifinals -Thursday, July 31
• $1 Million Championship – Sunday Aug. 3

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