The Basketball Tournament, better known as TBT, kicks off on July 19 across the ESPN family of networks, and as a result, ESPN’s Carmine Carcieri took a stab at predicting the tournament’s outcome, via some rankings.
Unsurprisingly, No. 1 seeds found themselves at the top of the heap, with four-time champion — all consecutive — Overseas Elite standing as the preeminent tournament favorite.
No. 2 in the rankings was the Salt Lake Regional's No. 1 seed, however — Eberlein Drive.
Designated the “biggest threat to Overseas Elite's five-peat,” Eberlein Drive “is a team led by two former NBA players, James Michael McAdoo and Donald Sloan, and the fourth-leading scorer in the 2018 tournament, Jerome Randle (21.