ROCHESTER, Michigan – Senior forward
Xavier Hill-Mais is one of 10 Horizon League seniors named to the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship Midseason Watch List, announced on Tuesday, February 4. The 2020 event is scheduled for April 3-5 at Atlanta's Atlantic Station, where it will be contested outdoors for the first time.
In what is the single-largest gathering of draft-eligible talent in the months leading up to the NBA Draft, the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship features 128 seniors from all 32 Division I conferences vying for one of the biggest purses at any FIBA-sanctioned 3×3 event. Teams will compete for $150,000, with $100,000 going to the tournament champions. The winning team will once again earn an automatic berth to the 2020 USA Basketball 3×3 Open National Championship in May. All student-athletes named to the Midseason Watch List will exhaust their athletic eligibility at the conclusion of the 2019-20 season.
Hill-Mais was named to the All-Horizon League First-Team a season ago, leading the team with 18.3 points per game and 7.2 boards per effort. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native has scored in double figures in 22 of 23 games this season - highlighted by five double-doubles. Currently, Hill-Mais ranks inside the top eight in the league for points per game, 15.5, and rebounds, 7.7. He is knocking down over 51 percent of his field goal attempts - good for first in the Horizon.
The Tournament will once again receive non-stop coverage through its broadcast partners Twitter and ESPN. Every second of the 2020 Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship will be available to a national audience beginning with pool play games on Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, and knockout rounds on Sunday, April 5. Twitter will be the exclusive home of pool play games, as well as the Round of 16 and quarterfinal games. ESPN2 will carry the semifinal, consolation and championship contests.
Each team roster will be comprised of four eligible seniors from the same Division I conference. Teams will be organized into eight pools of four and each team will be guaranteed three pool play games, earning $1,000 for every victory on Friday and Saturday. The top two teams in each pool will move on to Sunday's knockout stage, where the stakes skyrocket. Only the teams competing in the tournament final will earn additional prize money, with the champions winning $100,000.
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Full list of Horizon League honorees: Tarkus Ferguson - UIC, Cole Gentry - Wright State, Kameron Hankerson - Green Bay, Xavier Hill-Mais - Oakland, JayQuan McCloud - Green Bay, Marcus Ottey - UIC, Darius Roy - Milwaukee, Tyler Sharpe - Northern Kentucky, Dantez Walton - Northern Kentucky, Billy Wampler - Wright State.