24-06-2025
Best Virginia awarded No. 3 seed in Charleston Regional for 2025 TBT
MORGANTOWN — Making its sixth appearance in the $1 million winner-take-all The Basketball Tournament (TBT), Best Virginia was awarded the No. 3 seed Tuesday in the eight-team Charleston Regional.
The regional runs from July 18-22, at the Charleston Coliseum.
Best Virginia, representing a WVU alumni team, will face DuBois Dream, a minor-league organization based out of Pennsylvania, at 8 p.m. on July 18.
The two teams also met in the first round in 2023, with Erik Stevenson hitting a game-winning 3-pointer for a 70-68 victory in Wheeling.
Stevenson is signed to play with Best Virginia again, as are former WVU players Kedrian Johnson, Jermaine Haley and Wes Harris.
Former WVU standout Jarrod West returns for his second stint as the head coach with former WVU assistant Ron Everhart joining the team as an assistant coach.
John Flowers, a forward from the 2010 Final Four team, is the general manager for Best Virginia.
West's son, Jarrod, a former standout at Marshall and Louisville, will also be playing for Best Virginia.
Marshall's alumni team, Herd That, is the No. 2 seed in the same region.
If both teams win in the first round, they would meet at 5 p.m. on July 20.
Herd That won the most recent meeting between the two teams, 74-61, in Wheeling.
Elite Nation, a collection of American-born professionals playing overseas, was awarded the No. 1 seed in the Charleston Regional.
TBT is a single-elimination tournament, much like the NCAA tournament. It features the Elam Ending, which creates a target score at the first stoppage of play with four minutes left in the game.
The TBT winner splits the $1 million prize.
The tournament was first created in 2014, and Best Virginia entered play in 2019. It's played in the tournament every season, except for 2020, due to COVID-19.
Best Virginia is 8-5 all-time in TBT.
