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Men's Basketball Joe Browning

Okauru Selected For 2022 3X3U Championship

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Graduate guard Mike Okauru of UNCW is among 64 players invited to compete in the 2022 Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship scheduled for April 1-3, 2022, at The Sugar Mill in New Orleans.
 
The event made its debut in 2018 and increased in popularly in 2019 before becoming a Covid-19 casualty in 2020. The unique tournament resurrected in 2021 in Indianapolis and is back in full force this year at the NCAA Final Four in the bayou.
 
Seahawk hoops icon Devontae Cacok made a big splash at the 2019 affair in Minneapolis. He teamed up with Justin Wright-Foreman (Hofstra), Jarrell Brantley (Charleston) and Vasa Pusica (Northeastern) to run the table in the three-day event, going an unblemished 7-0 and defeating a team from the West Coast Conference in the championship. The CAA quartet banked $100,000 for winning the second event.
 
A 6-4, 190-pound guard from Raleigh, Okauru recently powered the Seahawks to the College Basketball Invitational championship and a 27-9 record in 2021-22. Okauru averaged 13.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists, earning Second-Team All-CAA, CAA All-Tournament and CBI All-Tournament honors.
 
Okauru will be joined by guard Jalen Ray (Hofstra), forward Ty Flowers (LIU) and guard Peter Kiss (Bryant) on the combined Colonial Athletic Association/Northeast Conference team dubbed the Colonial Con-NEC-tion.
 
Overall, 16 teams of players from the 32 NCAA Division I conferences will battle for $150,000 in prize money. More than 200 players who have participated in the first three years of 3X3U have inked professional contracts.
 
Each conference is paired with another league to form a total of 16 four-man rosters. The event, sanctioned by FIBA, will be separated into four pools. 
 
The teams will play each squad in their pool on April 1-2. All 16 teams will then head to the knockout stage on April 3, with the top two teams from each pool receiving byes to the quarterfinals. The winning team from each pool play game will win $1,000, victories in the first two knockout rounds will net another $1,000, a quarterfinal win is worth $5,000, a semifinal triumph is another $10,000. The team that takes home the tournament crown will add $50,000 to their winnings. 
 
The games will be shown live on Twitter and the ESPN Networks, The entire event will be available to a national audience, beginning with pool play games on Friday and Saturday, April 1-2, and knockout rounds on Sunday, April 3.
 
Kyle Montgomery, the voice of FIBA 3x3, and Robbie Hummel, current ESPN and Big Ten Network analyst, will call the games. Tate Frazier and Mark Titus of the Titus & Tate Podcast will also suit up as hosts of the Dos Equis Lounge to provide commentary, postgame interviews and more over the three-day experience.
 
2022 Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship Conferences/Teams
 
Pool A
Big East/A-10 (Beast Coast Ballers)
American/C-USA (American Made)
Ivy/Patriot (Wicked Smahts)
America East/MAAC (Metro East Mayhem)

Pool B
Big Ten/MAC (#B1GMACtion)
SEC/SoCon (Dirty South)
ASUN/Sun Belt (SUNs of Anarchy)
Summit/OVC (Summit Valley Oop'n)
 
Pool C
Big 12/Southland (Southwest Souljas)
Horizon/MVC (Horizon Valley Hoopers)
Big Sky/Big West (Western Sky-Walkers)
MEAC/SWAC (HBC-U Don't Want None)
 
Pool D
Pac-12/WCC (B-Ball After Dark (B.A.D.) Boys)
ACC/Big South (Tobacco Road Ryders)
MWC/WAC (Rocky Mountain Range)
CAA/NEC (Colonial Con-NEC-tion)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mike Okauru

#4 Mike Okauru

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6' 4"
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Players Mentioned

Mike Okauru

#4 Mike Okauru

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Graduate Student
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