All tournament along, the Golden Eagles Alumni played a freewheeling style of basketball that relied on hot shooting and pace at the expense of deliberate sets on both sides of the ball. It finally caught up with them.
The Golden Eagles Alumni’s run in The Basketball Tournament is over after an 89-81 loss to Always A Brave in the round of eight. Brave, which is comprised solely of Bradley University alums, went on a 7-0 run to break a 69-69 tie and take the lead for good with just over five minutes left in the second half.
“We won some games, we had some success and we just kind of fell short today,” said general manager Dan Fitzgerald.