Sideline Cancer vs. Golden Eagles ready for the finals of the 2020 basketball tournament | Bleacher report

Golden Eagles and Sideline Cancer are a $ 1 million win away.

The Golden Eagles defeated Red Scare and Sideline Cancer advanced surprisingly by overcoming the Overseas Elite in Sunday’s semifinals in the basketball tournament. The winners will face off in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday in the championship match of the one-time knockout tournament that included 24 teams.

Sunday’s winners, like all other winners during the tournament, advanced to Elam’s finish, which closes the stopwatch on the first dead ball with less than four minutes remaining in the game and adds eight points to the main team’s score.

The two teams then play until one of them reaches that total.

There wasn’t much Elam drama in the first with Jamil Wilson punching a three to give the Golden Eagles a nine-point direct win. This was not the case with the latter, given that Sideline Cancer returned from a double deficit hole before Maurice Creek press a three winning pointer to complete the return.

Here is a look at the full results of Sunday’s action.

The scores

Golden Eagles def. Red Scare, 79-70

Cancer Sideline def. Overseas Elite, 67-65

Golden Eagles Advance Over Red Scare

The Golden Eagles are exactly where they were last year: the championship game.

They definitely want to come up with a win this time.

After losing to a Carmen’s Crew team with a number of former Ohio State players in the final last year, the team led by former Marquette players managed a Red Scare team with many former University of Dayton players.

Wilson led the way even before he connected with the game’s winning three pointer and finished with 23 points and seven rebounds. He had the help of Darius Johnson-Odom (13 points and two aces) and Elgin Cook (10 points and three rebounds), which was enough to overcome Trey Landers’ strong effort on the other side.

The landers finished with 21 points and six rebounds, but Red Scare scored 12 lost balls and was unable to contain the perimeter shot of the Golden Eagles.

It was only fitting that Wilson finish the game with a three because his team shot 11 out of 28 (39.3 percent) from the center during the game.

Cinderella is still dancing

It would have been fair for the Golden Eagles to assume that they would face the overseas Elite in the league.

After all, Overseas Elite is the greatest power of the basketball tournament as a four-time champion who lost one game in the history of the event and went into action on Sunday. The roster may be different this time, but seven-time NBA All-Star Joe Johnson provided much of the crime.

Johnson entered the competition on Sunday average 24.0 points per game and added 18 points in the semifinals, but Sideline Cancer missed the reminder that they should have been the ones who returned home.

The story of TBT in Cinderella was the only one to advance in the semifinal without a greeting thanks above all to the impressive efforts of Marcus Keene, Creek, Remy Abell and Eric Thompson.

It was Keene who caught fire in the third quarter on his way to 22 points to help put his team in position to make a late run after falling back two digits, and Sideline Cancer came back to tie the game by heading towards the Finale Elam.

From there, it was a race full of dramas that scored eight points first.

Keene punched three points to go up two and bring his team within three points of victory, but Johnson replied with an e-1 to pull his team within two points of victory. Each of them missed the shots that would have won for their respective teams, but Creek played the hero role when he sent his team to the final.

This means that a team that has never won this tournament in the past will be champion in 2020.