Ferris State Hoops Duo To Appear On ESPN2 Monday Night For Team D2 In Round Two Of The TBT

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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's basketball program will gain nationwide attention again on Monday (July 19) night as current Bulldog head coach Andy Bronkema and alum Taylor Adway take part in round two action of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a $1 million winner-take-all event.

Bronkema is serving as an assistant coach for the second consecutive year with Team D2, which is comprised of former NCAA Division II all-stars. Former Bulldog center Taylor Adway is part of the team's roster competing in the West Virginia Regional at the Charleston Coliseum.

Team D2 advanced to round two of the TBT with a 68-56 win over Bleed Virginia on Saturday and will next face Best Virginia, a group of former University of West Virigina standouts, in the second round. Tipoff is set for Monday night at 9 p.m. (ET) on ESPN2.

On Saturday, Adway tallied four points and had a rebounds as the seventh-seeded D2 squad scored the impressive victory over 10th-seeded Bleed Virginia.

In addition to Bronkema and Adway, former Bulldog standout guard Kenny Brown competed in the same West Virigina Regional for Team DRC, playing in the TBT for the third consecutive year, and tallied a team-high 20 points in the squad's 85-76 first-round setback to Herd That.

The TBT is a 64-team, single-elimination event open to the world's top standouts and competitive teams with the championship week held in Dayton, Ohio. The preliminary rounds are played at four regional sites, including West Virginia.

The TBT is now in its eighth campaign and the winning team takes home $1 million this year. GMs negotiate with each team member over his/her share of the final prize. Teams are seeded based on each team's talent, chemistry and reliability. Games also utilize the Elam Ending, which eliminates the game clock at the end of play and sets a Target Score.

Supporters can become fans of the team by logging onto thetournament.com. Fans can also follow the D2 team on twitter @D2Unheralded or @D2unheraldedTBT.

Bronkema led Ferris State to the 2018 NCAA Division II National Championship, earning consensus National Coach of the Year recognition, as the Bulldogs matched the all-time NCAA Division II record in a remarkable 38-1 campaign during the 2017-18 season. FSU has advanced to the NCAA Tournament five of the last seven years under his direction and won 20 games or more six of the past seven seasons.

Adway spent three seasons at the University of Toledo (2015-18) before concluding his collegiate career at Ferris State in 2018-19, helping lead the Bulldogs to a 20-win campaign. He has since played overseas in Belarus and most recently Georgia where he spent the 2020-21 campaign.

A two-time All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) selection during his Bulldog playing career, Brown has played professionally overseas since 2013 in Iraq, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Turkey, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Romania.

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