Here's everything you need to know about the Players Era Festival, an 18-team men's basketball and four-team women's basketball event in Las Vegas played during Thanksgiving week.

The first official NCAA NET rankings have been released, providing the initial blueprint for how the selection committee views the national landscape. It factors in everything from game results and strength of schedule to offensive and defensive efficiency.

Coach Porter Moser and the OU men's basketball team will face Wake Forest on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The teams will face off in the annual SEC/ACC Challenge.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - No. 7 Michigan State men’s basketball stayed unbeaten and opened its Big Ten schedule with a 71-52 win over Iowa at the Breslin Center on Tuesday. Iowa led 7-6 about five minutes into the game before MSU went on a 19-3 run over the next ten minutes and took a 14-point lead into halftime.

You have to hand it to the kingpins in men’s college basketball this year: the early season schedule is as good as its ever been in my 10+ years covering the sport, treating fans to multiple big-time non-conference matchups between top-ranked teams every week.

Down two starters on Wednesday night — Dalen Davis missed his fifth straight game with a sprained right ankle, while Malik Abdullahi joined him on the injured list with a left foot problem — the Tigers trudged out of the OceanFirst Bank Center and back home on I-I95 with yet another frustrating defeat.

No, nothing has changed at the top. Nova Southeastern and Washburn are dominating the DII men's basketball court as expected. What is unexpected is the surge of Lone Star Conference teams in the latest DII men's basketball Power 10 rankings.

Florida plays at Duke. UNC visits Kentucky. A third ranked matchup pits Louisville against Arkansas. It's the ACC/SEC Men's Challenge.