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05-13-2016, 01:29 AM
America's weirdest, most wonderful basketball tournament is back with a social mission
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There's weird-weird, and then there's good-weird. The Basketball Tournament — which we introduced to the world in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/04/04/tbt-the-basketball-tournament/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) — is most definitely good-weird.*
The roundball free-for-all is back for its third year, and bigger than ever. Like in years prior, sixty-four teams will win**w down to one champ. As usual, former college and NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) stars playing for a fat payday will have you tripping down memory lane. The tourney's semifinals and Aug. 2 title game will be broadcast on ESPN (http://mashable.com/category/espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) this year.*
But this summer, there's even more money at stake. The winning team **w takes home $2 million — a big jump from the inaugural tournament's $500,000 prize and last year (http://mashable.com/2015/05/27/the-basketball-tournament-espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)'s $1 million jackpot.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/the-basketball-tournament-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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There's weird-weird, and then there's good-weird. The Basketball Tournament — which we introduced to the world in 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/04/04/tbt-the-basketball-tournament/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) — is most definitely good-weird.*
The roundball free-for-all is back for its third year, and bigger than ever. Like in years prior, sixty-four teams will win**w down to one champ. As usual, former college and NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) stars playing for a fat payday will have you tripping down memory lane. The tourney's semifinals and Aug. 2 title game will be broadcast on ESPN (http://mashable.com/category/espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) this year.*
But this summer, there's even more money at stake. The winning team **w takes home $2 million — a big jump from the inaugural tournament's $500,000 prize and last year (http://mashable.com/2015/05/27/the-basketball-tournament-espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)'s $1 million jackpot.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/the-basketball-tournament-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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