MILWAUKEE - A group of former Milwaukee men's basketball players once again needs your help in order to qualify for the 2018 TBT.
 
The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an open-application, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the USA, currently featuring 72 teams. It was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Mugar and will again have a winner-take-all, $2 million championship game that will be played on ESPN.
 
Ed McCants (2003-05 at Milwaukee), the 2004-05 Horizon League Player of the Year who led the Panthers to the NIT in 2004 and the NCAA Tournament in 2005 after averaging 17.4 points a game, is again serving as the Team General Manager for the squad named the "Banner Boys".
 
The team competed a year ago after fans helped the team qualify, winning its first-round game in thrilling fashion when Boo Davis sank a putback with 1.2 seconds remaining for a 61-59 victory. The Banner Boys were voted as the No. 20 team in the final rankings from 2017.
 
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Enrollment for team "Supporters" opened April 2 and will run until June 1, 2018.
 
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE TEAM
 
The 72-team field consists of eighteen (18) teams playing in each of the four (4) regions: Northeast, Midwest, South, West. Nine (9) of those 18 will be automatically selected based on popularity (# of Supporters on TheTournament.com as of June 1 at 12 p.m. ET). Four (6) "at-large" teams will be selected in each region. The prize pool this season will be $2 million.

The Banner Boys currently sits first in the Midwest Rankings with 295 Supporters.