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The Basketball Tournament, aided by health and safety plan, set for July

The Basketball Tournament, an event that has featured former college stars and overseas standouts competing for a seven-figure prize, will proceed this summer with the assistance of a comprehensive health and safety plan to minimize the risk of contracting or spreading the coronavirus, organizers announced Wednesday.

Keys to the plan will be multiple rounds of testing for competitors before entering a sanitized venue, separating the participants and eliminating a team if one of its players tests positive.

Starting in July, the TBT says it will host a 24-team, single-elimination tournament at a location to be determined, which organizers are calling "inner island," a quarantined "campus.