Tide staffers earn $1M win in The Basketball Tournament

A pair of present Alabama males’s basketball employees members led a group of College at Buffalo alumni to a $1 million championship win in The Basketball Match on Tuesday evening.

Alabama assistant coach Bryan Hodgson served as normal supervisor and Tide director of scouting and analytics Adam Bauman served as head coach for the “Blue Collar U” group that gained the annual 64-team summer time match.

The match, which has been performed since 2014 and aired on ESPN networks, featured teams {of professional} gamers in some instances reunited with their former school teammates on self-organized groups.

The “Blue Collar U” group beat “Americana For Autism,” 89-67, in College of Dayton Area to win the match’s $1 million prize. In accordance with the group’s web site, Blue Collar U will donate a portion of its winnings to Teaching Love Inc., a non-profit began by Hodgson to learn at-risk youth within the foster system. Hodgson was raised by a foster household in New York.

Alabama coach Nate Oats, who was employed in 2019 after 4 seasons main Buffalo, traveled Tuesday to Dayton to look at his former gamers try and win the match. It’s the second season Hodgson and Bauman have led the group of Buffalo alumni, which fell within the single-elimination match’s semifinals final summer time.

Bauman and Hodgson will rejoin Alabama this week earlier than it departs Friday for a 10-day, three-game overseas tour to Spain and France.

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Comply with him on Twitter @mikerodak.