Feast Week is finally here, and this year, the highlight is the Players Era Festival, an 18-team tournament in Las Vegas that guarantees each team at least $1 million in Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) money, with another $1 million split between the teams that finish in the top four. Some of the best teams in the country are participating, including Houston, Alabama, Gonzaga, Michigan, Kansas, Tennessee, Auburn, and Iowa State. With games going on nonstop for four days at two different arenas on the Strip, it’s a college basketball fan’s dream.
Even though the Players Era field is expanding again to 32 teams next year, don’t get your hopes up for Kentucky to be one of them.