The Basketball Tournament 2022 Preview: #2 Golden Eagles vs #7 Ohio 1804

Dayton Regional First Spherical

#2 Golden Eagles vs #7 Ohio 1804

Date: Sunday, July 24, 2022
Time: 8pm Central
Location: College of Dayton Enviornment, Dayton, Ohio
Tv: Uh, no.
Streaming: ESPN3/WatchESPN
Reside Stats: TheTournament.com ought to have them on the high of the web page after we get round to sport time.
Twitter Updates: @thetournament & twitter.com/GoldenEaglesTBT

Good day and welcome again to the necessary a part of The Basketball Event, aka the half that features former Marquette. In what would be the remaining sport of the primary spherical of this 12 months’s winner-take-all 64 workforce event, YOUR Golden Eagles are taking up Ohio 1804 within the first spherical of the Dayton Regional.

The Golden Eagles’ roster is just about precisely what you might have come to anticipate from the previous few years as we’ve already talked about on these digital pages. In some way, although, that is nonetheless nowhere close to the roster that we thought we have been going to get.

Maurice Acker
Sacar Anim
Vander Blue
Dwight Buycks
Elgin Cook dinner
Travis Diener
Luke Fischer
Darius Johnson-Odom
Derrick Wilson
Jamil Wilson
Jarvis Williams

In some way we went from “Deonte Burton and Kaleb Wesson are on the workforce” to “solely Deonte Burton is on the workforce” to “Deonte Burton and Diamond Stone are on the workforce” to “neither of these guys are on the workforce, BUT Jamil Wilson is!” Very bizarre stuff, however roster instability is a time honored custom for TBT. You’ll be able to say you’re going to have Man X and Man Y on the roster, however typically instances sport time rolls round they usually’re nowhere to be seen. At the very least that’s not occurring right here.

Nothing in opposition to Burton, Stone, or Wesson right here, however primarily based on how Jamil Wilson’s earlier TBT runs have gone, I feel Golden Eagles is popping out forward right here. Not solely does the workforce get the good thing about a confirmed TBT commodity versus three guys who don’t have a observe document taking part in with this group, however mentioned commodity is a man who has been considered one of if not the perfect TBT participant over the previous few years. Wilson’s capacity to change the sport at a number of ranges has been essential to Golden Eagles popping out on the profitable facet of the Elam Ending time and time once more, and I’m very happy to get to see him do this once more this summer time.

Ohio 1804 is, ostensibly, a workforce of alumni from Ohio College. Nonetheless, solely three guys spent their total collegiate profession as a Bobcat, and solely seven of the ten guys on the workforce performed at Ohio in any respect.

At a look from their time in school, I feel we are able to slim down the record of main choices for this second 12 months TBT squad to 4 guys. Antonio Campbell is an enormous man who averaged 11 factors and 7 rebounds per sport in 4 years at Ohio and shot a fairly wholesome 35% from lengthy vary, too. Ryan Taylor averaged 13.0 factors, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per sport unfold throughout tenures at Ohio, Evansville, and Northwestern. Listed at 6’6” and 195 kilos in school when he wrapped up in 2019, he additionally shot 36% from lengthy vary for his collegiate profession. FUN FACT: Taylor is considered one of two guys with an apparent Wisconsin connection on this roster, as he attended St. John’s/Northwestern Army Academy in Delafield. The opposite one is Jaylen Key, who lists Milwaukee as his hometown and Homestead Excessive College as his alma mater.

The third definitive choice for Ohio 1804 is Teyvion Kirk, who completed up his collegiate profession in 2021. With time spent at each Ohio and Illinois-Chicago, the 6’4”, 185 pounder could be this workforce’s best choice at level guard after averaging 14.5 factors, 6.1 rebounds, and three.5 assists per sport whereas in school. Nonetheless, Kirk shot simply 28% on threes, in order that’s a notable weak point. There’s additionally Troy Simms, who cut up his school hoops between New Mexico and Kent State. He averaged 11.4 factors, 3.3 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per sport, and shot practically 38% from behind the arc.

Lastly, I need to spotlight Stevie Taylor for a cut up second. He performed for Ohio College between 2012 and 2015, however that’s not the necessary half right here. The 5’10” guard hails from Gahanna and attended Lincoln Excessive College. That’s the identical residence city and highschool as incoming Marquette freshman Sean Jones, so it’s neat to see the universe align like this.

This shall be Golden Eagles’ twenty eighth TBT sport of their seventh look within the occasion. Within the earlier six tournaments, the MU alumni workforce is 22-5 all time they usually have received at the least three video games in each event and superior to at the least the quarterfinals. That features the 4-0 document wanted to win the million greenback prize in 2020.

The winner of this sport will advance to Tuesday’s second spherical. The opponent in that sport would be the winner of the #3/#6 sport between Pink Scare, the Dayton alumni workforce, and CitiTeam.

Your schedule for the remainder of the day immediately, with all instances Central:

West Virginia Regional

11am: #2 Bucketneers vs #7 Absolutely Loaded, ESPN3
1pm: #3 WoCo Showtime vs #6 Struggle Prepared, ESPN3
4pm: #4 Herd That vs #5 Founding Fathers, ESPN3
6pm: #1 Finest Virginia vs #8 Virginia Dream, ESPN2

Dayton Regional

12pm: #1 Cash Group vs #8 Athletics Miami, ESPN
2pm: #3 Pink Scare vs #6 CitiTeam, ESPN3
6pm: #4 Males of Mackey vs #5 Mid American Unity, ESPN3
8pm: #2 Golden Eagles vs #7 Ohio 1804, ESPN3