Trio of Former Knights Set for TBT Championship Week

ORLANDO – It's championship week in The Basketball Tournament (TBT) and three former UCF men's basketball standouts are determined to help their team claim the $1 million winner-take-all prize.

Suiting up for Florida TNT, Matt Williams (2012-17), Tristan Spurlock (2010-14) and Keith Clanton (2009-13) are set to open quarterfinals play against AfterShocks at 12:00 p.m. ET in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday, July 31.

Florida TNT has reached the quarterfinals in just its second TBT appearance and can create havoc for opponents. Clanton has led the charge of former Knights playing in TBT. In three games, the 6-foot-9 big man has scored 30 points while adding 15 rebounds and four assists. Clanton is UCF's all-time leader with 129 games played, as well as the Knights' all-time rebounds leader with 1,000 boards.

Williams opened play in TBT with nine points on three threes but has since only scored three points in the last two games for Florida TNT. Williams was a senior on UCF head coach Johnny Dawkins's first UCF team that reached the National Invitation Tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden in 2017. The Orlando native finished his Knights tenure with a program-record 274 threes, as well as the program record for most threes made in a season (126) and a single game (11).

Spurlock did not play in the first two games for Florida TNT, but after driving 10 hours to play with the team in their final game in Wichita, he contributed with four rebounds in a 74-67 win that helped secure his team's spot in Dayton. The Woodbridge, Virginia native posted 9.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game from 2011-14 with the Knights.

Founded in 2014, TBT is an open-application, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the United States.