St. Mary’s basketball alums enjoy playing together as Gael Force in tourney

What began as something of a lark has turned into something much more for the St. Mary’s alums playing in The Basketball Tournament.

“It was just a weekend to stay close with the guys and have some fun, win some games,” two-time All-WCC forward Rob Jones said, before adding with a laugh: “It wasn’t even about the $2 million at first.

“Now, we’re trying to get serious. Now that we saw we had a little success ...”

At the end of last month, Jones and six other former St. Mary’s players rolled through their two games in the Spokane Pod of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a 72-team event in its fifth year.