Collusion and PEDs are against NCAA and NBA rules, so no, not at all like that at all.

Again, you seem to think the competition in the tournament is to win TT games, but the actual competition is in getting the most points. That's what gets rewarded. Try to be competitive with the people scoring the top amount of points, and you'll see it's not that easy. SQEX set the tournament up wrong if they wanted it to be about winning TT games, they should've used mmr or a bracket style tournament.