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$1M at stake in The Basketball Tournament

The Notre Dame Fighting Alumni emerged victorious in last year's final of The Basketball Tournament. Kyle Brasseur for ESPNBoston.com

Have you ever wanted to raise the stakes of your pickup game? How's $1 million sound?

For the second year in a row, The Basketball Tournament is offering a massive purse to anyone -- former NBA pros, everyday joes and schoolyard legends -- with the skill to take the TBT title.

Entry is free, but teams must qualify by recruiting at least 100 votes online. This year, there's an incentive to vote as well. The winning team's fan group will split 5 percent of the prize -- $50,000. Registration runs from April 1 through June 1.

The 96 teams selected for the winner-take-all, single-elimination bracket will compete regionally in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia. The defending champion Notre Dame Fighting Alumni will draw a lower-seeded Chicago entrant live on ESPNU on July 23. The bracket then winds down to the quarterfinals, which will be televised by ESPN.

The $1 million championship game will be held Aug. 2 in New York City and shown live on ESPN at 3 p.m. ET.

The prize pool is double what it was last year, when the Fighting Alumni beat Team Barstool 72-68 in the title game behind former All-Big East players Russell Carter, Torin Francis and Chris Thomas.

Barstool, led by Ross Burns, Dave Portnoy and Dan Katz, also rostered former Clipper Dahntay Jones. Here's a deeper look at that team: