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I am Gary Parrish.

Welcome back, CBS Sports I on College Basketball podcast,

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

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

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

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

and how the evolution of college athletics has changed Thanksgiving

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

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

can be found.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm here.

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

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