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Eye On College Basketball

Players Era Festival: changing Feast Week, the Maui Invitational & hoops in November; Purdue destroys Texas Tech; weekend recap: Wake-Memphis, BYU-Wisconsin + more

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 ā€¢ 2.8K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 24 November 2025

ā±ļø 78 minutes

šŸ”—ļø Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

READ: Norlander's Players Era breakdown


Parrish and Norlander break down the Players Era Festival and explain the ripple effect it has across the sport during Feast Week. Then, Purdue dusts Texas Tech at Baha Mar and more from the weekend of college hoops.


(0:00) Intro

(0:52) How Players Era Festival is changing college basketball and Feast Week

(32:58) Purdue smokes Texas Tech in Baha Mar Championship

(42:00) Weekend Whiparound - Wake at the Buzzer vs Memphis, BYU/Wisconsin and more

(1:09:12) Looking Ahead to Feast Week

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there.

0:14.7

I am Gary Parrish.

0:15.8

Welcome back, CBS Sports I on College Basketball podcast,

0:18.8

where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds

0:22.0

leaky black matt norlander is here with me if you're watching on youtube be brandy davy smash

0:26.9

that like button and if you want to us let the world know in the comments and in the chat if you

0:31.4

haven't already subscribe to the cbs sports college basketball youtube channel please also do that

0:36.4

while you're here let Let's get into it.

0:38.3

And we will get to some of the weekend's top results in a bit.

0:42.1

We'll start that conversation with Purdue, Texas Tech.

0:45.4

But I want to start this conversation about some of the multi-team events getting underway

0:51.6

and how the evolution of college athletics has changed Thanksgiving

0:57.3

week for college basketball pretty dramatically. And we can begin that conversation by pointing

1:03.8

out that Norlander is in Las Vegas right now where the Maui Invitational Murder Weapon

1:09.2

can be found.

1:18.0

Norlander, you have a piece up on CBSSports.com about the launch and evolution of the Players Era Festival. It's a 23-minute read. Let's try to be a little quicker over here.

1:23.6

For folks who don't have all afternoon to read about a college basketball tournament in

1:28.6

November, can you explain the Players' Era Festival how it works and why the Maui Invitational's

1:35.5

blood is on its hands? Your word's not mine. You will not find the phrase, I don't think you'll find

1:41.7

the word blood in the story, period. I remain. Hey, I have access to it. I could get in there and put that in right now. That sounds extremely ethical. By the way, I have major issues with our algorithm continuing to overinflate the time it takes to read. I promise you, you read the story, top to bottom, you're in and out in 15 minutes. That thing ain't taking you 23. But it is a big story, a big picture story.

2:02.7

I'm here.

2:03.4

Players there is going to get started Monday with 18 teams.

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