Overview
- The Players Era Festival runs Nov. 24–27 with nine top-25 teams and wall-to-wall national broadcasts across TNT and truTV.
- Unlike traditional brackets, the event uses two group games per team before final matchups based on record and point differential, culminating with a Wednesday night championship.
- Women’s spotlight games in Las Vegas feature UCLA vs. Texas and Duke vs. South Carolina on Wednesday, with winners advancing to Thursday’s title game.
- The Maui Invitational (Nov. 24–26) continues with NC State, USC and Texas headlining a smaller field that has ceded the week’s top billing.
- Other notable windows include Duke vs. Arkansas in Chicago on Nov. 27 for the CBS Sports Thanksgiving Classic, plus Fort Myers Tip-Off, Battle 4 Atlantis and the Rady Children’s Invitational.