{"id":865315,"date":"2025-08-14T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tbt-2025-semifinals-recap-eberlein-drive-advances-with-win-over-best-virginia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:11:53","slug":"tbt-2025-semifinals-recap-eberlein-drive-advances-with-win-over-best-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tbt-2025-semifinals-recap-eberlein-drive-advances-with-win-over-best-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"TBT 2025 Semifinals Recap: Eberlein Drive Advances With Win Over Best Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" overlaytype=\"article\" show_advertisements=\"true\" data-v-a5d1378a data-v-57f930c8>\n<p data-v-57f930c8><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/tbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>The Basketball Tournament<\/u><\/a> field is officially down to the final two teams, and the $1 million winner-take-all prize is within arm&#8217;s reach!<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Kicking things off, Eberlein Drive took down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/west-virginia-mountaineers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Virginia<\/a>&#8216;s alumni team, Best Virginia, in the first game of the semifinal round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/wichita-state-shockers-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wichita State<\/a>&#8216;s alumni team, Aftershocks, defeated We Are D3 to clinch the final spot in Sunday&#8217;s title game.<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Here&#8217;s a recap of Thursday night&#8217;s TBT action!<\/p>\n<h2>Basketball Aftershocks 66, We Are D3 54<\/h2>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Both teams were neck and neck to start this one, but Aftershocks pulled away in the second quarter, putting up 21 points to We Are D3&#8217;s five. Headed into halftime, the former Shockers stars were ahead by 18 points, 35-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>We Are D3 made a run for it in the third quarter and made it a single-digit game, 47-38, heading into the fourth. In the end, however, the Aftershocks squad have too much star power for We Are D3 to overcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>James Woodard led Aftershocks with 12 points off the bench, while Ty Nichols (We Are D3) led all players with 14.<\/p>\n<h2>Basketball Eberlein Drive 85, Best Virginia 77<\/h2>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Both teams came out strong in this one. Eberlein Drive held a narrow advantage over Best Virginia after the first quarter, 21-18, but the WVU alum had a second-quarter spark that put them ahead 40-37 headed into halftime. Terry Taylor (Eberlein Drive) and Toby Okani (Best Virginia) led all players in the first half with 10 points each.<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Eberlein Drive found its footing again in the third quarter, jumping out in front by three heading into the fourth, 64-61.<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8>Heading into the Elam Ending \u2014 the tournament&#8217;s alternate ending, in which the game clock is shut off in the fourth quarter and a target score is set \u2014 it was a two-point game, 77-75. The target score was 85, and Gabe York came to life for Eberlein Drive. His clutch 3-point shooting lifted his team to the win. York led all players with 25 points.<\/p>\n<p data-v-57f930c8><i>Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><u>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/u><\/i><\/a>!<\/p>\n<div data-v-57f930c8 data-v-dff65ff3>\n<p><span data-v-dff65ff3>FOLLOW<\/span> <span data-v-dff65ff3>Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-57f930c8>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr data-v-57f930c8>\n<div data-v-57f930c8>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/leagues\/logos\/TBT.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"basketball The Basketball Tournament\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Get more from the The Basketball Tournament<\/span> <span>Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr data-v-57f930c8>  <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/college-basketball\/tbt-2025-semifinals-recap-best-virginia-eberlein-drive-aftershocks-we-d3\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Tyisha Mischke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball The Basketball Tournament field is officially down to the final two teams, and the $1 million winner-take-all prize is within arm&#8217;s reach! Kicking things off, Eberlein Drive took down West Virginia&#8216;s alumni team, Best Virginia, in the first game of the semifinal round.\u00a0 Then, Wichita State&#8216;s alumni team, Aftershocks, defeated We Are D3 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,474,28332],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-865315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-recap","10":"category-semifinals","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}