Ohio State's Kyle Young headlines new era of Carxen's Crew in The Basketball Tournament
The new era of Carxen’s Crew is about to get underway.
After taking a one-year break from The Basketball Tournament and with a promise to return with a younger roster, the Ohio State alumni team for the annual summer event will for the first time feature a roster heavy on players from the Chris Holtmann era. This year’s roster is slated to include William Buford, the tournament’s 2019 MVP who is now fully recovered from a knee injury, as well as five players who played for Holtmann.
It also includes one player making his TBT debut: Kyle Young, a five-year letter winner for the Buckeyes from 2018-22.
Young will get to once again play alongside former teammates C.J. Jackson (2017-19), Keyshawn Woods (2018-19), Andre Wesson (2017-20) and Kaleb Wesson (2018-20). Trevor Thompson, who played for Ohio State from 2016-17, will also be on the roster after having played for Dayton’s TBT team.
Jalen Tate, Javon Bess, Malik Dime and Scott Thomas will also be part of the roster that will be coached by Jared Sullinger with Leon Rogers as an assistant coach.
Carxen's Crew, then known as Scarlet & Gray, won the 2019 event and entered the 2020 tournament as the top overall seed. In the first public sporting event played amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Carxen's Crew then took an upset, first-game loss.
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In 2021, Carxen's Crew lost in a regional final played on Ohio State's campus at the Covelli Center. Afterward, Sullinger promised that the team would get younger in the coming years for the 64-team, $1 million, winner-take-all tournament.
TBT will unveil the 2023 brackets Wednesday at noon on YouTube.com.
Ohio State will be placed in the Dayton region, which will host games from July 26-31.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: New Carxen's Crew roster headlined by Ohio State's Kyle Young
