The Basketball Tournament 2019
Region Seed Team School/program Origins of name
Columbus 1 Carmen 's Crew Ohio State Buckeyes School song Carmen Ohio
Columbus 2 Kohl Blooded Wisconsin Badgers Kohl Center , the Badgers ' home
Columbus 3 Red Scare Dayton Flyers Primary school color and student section nickname
Columbus 7 Mid-American Unity Mid-American Conference schools
Greensboro 2 Team CP3 AAU Chris Paul 's nickname
Greensboro 3 Power of the Paw Clemson Tigers Clemson 's athletic logo is a tiger 's paw
Lexington 2 Bluegrass Boys Kentucky Wildcats State nickname ; also , the Wildcats ' home of Lexington is a major city in the state 's Bluegrass region
Memphis 1 Gael Force Saint Mary 's Gaels
Memphis 2 Bluff City Memphis Tigers City nickname
Memphis 3 Team Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks
Richmond 2 Ram Nation VCU Rams
Richmond 3 Green Machine George Mason Patriots Primary school color
Richmond 4 Best Virginia West Virginia Mountaineers
Richmond 5 Seven City Royalty Old Dominion Monarchs Seven Cities , a nickname sometimes applied to ODU 's home of the Hampton Roads area
Richmond 6 The Web Richmond Spiders
Richmond 8 Hilltop Dawgs UMBC Retrievers School 's physical location
Salt Lake 4 Sons of Westwood UCLA Bruins Title of one of UCLA 's fight songs , derived from the school 's location in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood
Salt Lake 7 Utah Stallions Utah State Aggies
Syracuse 1 Boeheim 's Army Syracuse Orange Current Orange head coach Jim Boeheim
Syracuse 5 GaelNation Iona Gaels
Alumni teams
Multiple teams in the tournament were comprised mostly or exclusively of alumni of a particular school , program , or a group of closely related schools . These teams are listed below .
The Basketball Tournament 2019 was the sixth edition of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a 5-on-5, single elimination basketball tournament broadcast by the ESPN family of networks. The tournament, involving 64 teams, started on July 19 and continued through the championship match on August 6 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The winner of the final, Carmen's Crew, received a $2 million prize.