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Tim Scarborough (born May 17, 1967) is an American TV Commentator that covers college basketball, The Basketball Tournament (TBT), and the NBA G-League, on various outlets. He is currently a college basketball analyst on HBCUGO Sports which is owned by billionaire Byron Allen and his Byron Allen Media Group.

Born in Philadelphia, PA, he attended private school from the 3rd grade through graduation at Cedar Grove Christian Academy. As a pre-teen, he struggle academically, having to attend summer school in Jr High on multiple occasions. By the age of 16 it was clear that he had a gift of being a good basketball player. He began to focus on academics in high school with the understanding that he would have an opportunity to play college basketball. He was able to earn a full scholarship at an evangelical private school in Lynchburg Virginia known as Liberty University where he played for Head Coach Jeff Meyer.

Early Life and Education

Scarborough was born in Philadelphia, growing up in the West Oak Lane section of the city but attended private school in Northeast Philadelphia at Cedar Grove Christian Academy. He showed a lot of interest in being a college basketball player from middle school through high school but was over-shadowed by many great inner-city basketball players from his time, such as Jerome "Pooh" Richardson, Eric "Hank" Gathers and Greg "Bo" Kimble to name a few.

After not receiving any division 1 offers to play in college, Scarborough was an invited walk-on at Liberty where he earned a full-ride four year scholarship just a few months into his freshman year. He went on to be a part time starter as a Junior, and a full time starter and captain as a Senior.

Professional Career

After graduation, Scarborough moved to the Washington, DC area where he worked corporate jobs for a few years before heading back to Lynchburg to become an assistant basketball coach for his former coach Jeff Meyer in 1995. It was at this time that he gained valuable experience in media, recording features for radio to be used at halftime of games and even sitting in with the voice of the Flames Jerry Edwards on a few games as a color Analyst.

After 3 years of coaching, he decided to get back in the corporate world and also pursue a career in television broadcasting. by 1999 Scarborough had his 1st opportunity in TV, calling football and basketball games on local cable access television in Reston Virginia for South Lakes High School. He was also able to create a sports talk show in 2001 called "Just Another Sports Show" where he co-hosted with Bob Flanagan and former DC United goal keeper Mike Amman.

From there he moved back to Lynchburg, Virginia to become the color analyst for men's basketball on the newly created Liberty Flames Sports Network (LFSN) which he used to gain valuable experience. He did this for 11 years before being replaced by the University for other full-time talent. Within weeks, upon hearing of his availability, he was quickly hired by a fledgling network called The American Sports Network (ASN). He was calling nearly 40 basketball games a season for the 3 years of the network's existence, covering games in Conference USA, the MAC, SoCon, Sunbelt, Big South, CAA and Atlantic 10. In 2016, American Sports Network was sold and re-branded as Stadium TV where Scarborough was one of their top basketball Analysts for several years. As a free lance Analyst in 2017, he made his debut calling games in The Basketball Tournament on ESPN. In fact, he called the very first basketball game ever that featured the Elam Ending, a scenario where the game clock is turned off at the end of games and the 2 teams play to a target score, usually 7-9 points above the team with the higher score in the 4th quarter.

Today, Scarborough can be seen calling games in the NBA G-League as a backup Analyst for the College Park Skyhawks as well as in studio and at courtside on The Grio, and HBCUGO TV.

Personal Life

Scarborough has been married to Kelly Hayes Scarborough since 1997 and the couple has 2 children. The reside in the Atlanta suburbs.