Zip Em Up vs Takeover BC: 2024 TBT Odds & Picks (Friday)
The Basketball Tournament is back for the 2024 season! While the NBA Summer League is wrapping up, there is plenty of summer basketball yet to be played. The Big3 rolls on, and now fans get to enjoy TBT, The Basketball Tournament. Games will be featured on ESPN throughout the tournament, and we’ll have you covered with picks and predictions for each and every matchup. TBT believes “high stakes competition is the most powerful force in sports.” They’ll offer an open tournament and games of consequence daily which should result in some electrifying competition. Let’s take a look at our top picks for today’s TBT action: Zip Em Up vs Takeover BC.
Today’s 2024 The Basketball Tournament (TBT) Picks: Zip Em Up vs Takeover BC
Here are our top picks for today’s 2024 TBT action.
Zip Em Up vs Takeover BC
Zip Em Up, a Xavier-based alumni team, kicks off its fourth year in the TBT tournament. It has never secured a regional title, but it enters this season as the No. 2 seed in the Cincinnati region. Trevon Bluiett, Adam Kunkel and Paul Scruggs are the backbone of a very solid and talented squad heading into this event. Bluiett was instrumental in helping Xavier reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in 2017, and he can fill up the stat sheet when his shot is on. Scruggs suffered a torn ACL in the NIT in 2022 for Xavier. He is fully healthy and ready to make noise, too. Meanwhile, Takeover BC is a mish-mash of players who recently played overseas, including Chris Crawford and Jervon Pressley who were in Tunisia. Eric Williams, a G League player, who played at Oregon, might be a key player at small forward. However, Zip Em Up should take it to BC in the opening matchup.
Pick: Zip Em Up -8.5 (-110)
- Dan Dobish