TBT’s Super 16 loaded with former college, NBA players

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The Super 16 for The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all nationwide competition, will be Thursday and Friday at Philadelphia University, with four quarterfinal matchups on Saturday.

There are eight teams composed of college basketball alumni remaining and three teams that were in last year’s semifinals, including defending champions Overseas Elite.

The semifinals will be played at Fordham University, and the championship game, with $2 million on the line, will be Aug. 2 at 9 p.m. Both the semifinals and final will be on ESPN.

Here’s a look at each Super 16 matchups.

Northeast

No. 1 City of Gods vs. No. 5 Team FOE, Thursday (4 p.m. on ESPN3)

City of Gods features more former NBA players on the roster than just about anyone else in the event, with DerMarr Johnson and Michael Sweetney joining James White and Pops Mensah-Bonsu. They made it to the semifinals a year ago and added the high-flying White. There’s also former Drexel point guard Phil Goss, ex-Georgetown guard Chris Wright and former Maryland big man James Gist. Johnson, the sixth overall pick in the 2000 draft, has averaged 28 points and eight boards in their two wins.

There’s a heavy Kansas connection with FOE, beginning at the top with booster Thomas Robinson, general manager Markieff Morris and coach Marcus Morris. There’s also a pair of former Jayhawks in the backcourt with Tyshawn Taylor and Elijah Johnson. Ex-Villanova guard Maalik Wayns has been stellar thus far, as has former St. John’s power forward Sean Evans.

No. 2 Boeheim’s Army vs. No. 3 The Untouchables, Thursday (7 p.m. on ESPN2)

Boeheim’s Army is littered with former Syracuse players from the past 15 years, starting with Hakim Warrick, Darryl Watkins and Terrence Roberts. It continues with Eric Devendorf and Rick Jackson and culminates with guys like Brandon Triche, C.J. Fair and Baye Moussa Keita.

It will be like an old Big East battle with the Syracuse-laden group going up against The Untouchables, a team filled with former Pittsburgh Panthers. There’s Gilbert Brown, Gary McGhee, Levance Fields, Brad Wanamaker and Antonio Graves along with former UMass guard Ricky Harris and ex-Oklahoma wing Cameron Clark. Thus far, Wanamaker has been the team’s top scorer at 20 points per game.

Midwest

No. 5 Pedro’s Posse vs. No. 9 Always a Brave, Friday (9 p.m. on ESPN2)

Mike Bibby played in the NBA for 14 seasons. Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images

Mike Bibby and Jason Williams have led the way for Pedro’s Posse for the first two victories. Bibby — who won a national title with Arizona, was the second overall pick in 1998 and spent more than a decade in the NBA — almost had a triple-double in the opener while Williams, who is 40 years old, had 17 points and 10 assists in the win. Bibby and Williams have a supporting cast …

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