The Basketball Tournament 2020

[3] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on June 11 that the start of the event would be moved up to July 4 in a modified form, with the entire tournament taking place at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, and downsized to 24 teams with a $1,000,000 purse.

It marked the first televised basketball event held in the United States since the onset of the pandemic and the suspension of all U.S. professional sports in mid-March, as the NBA did not plan to resume its 2019–20 season until July 31 (with all games hosted by the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida).

[8] By the end of February 2020, Alabama, Illinois, Marshall, Maryland, Oklahoma State, and Virginia had also announced plans to enter TBT 2020.

[9] The status of defending champion Carmen's Crew (Ohio State) was initially uncertain; the team did officially enter by early March.

The teams representing West Virginia and the MAC would later withdraw, due to each having a player test positive for COVID-19.

[23][24] The championship basket (reaching the Elam Ending target score) was made by Travis Diener.