Players Era Festival Tips Off in Vegas Tuesday with 8 Elite Teams

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00:00John, let's go to the players era tournament in Las Vegas because it is also a deep and

00:10robust field with many a top 25 tilt in Las Vegas highlighted of course by that top five

00:16tilt tonight in Sin City or top 10 tilt rather that being Houston and Alabama.

00:22Is that the game that stands out to you above the rest?

00:26Ben, this is a final four caliber game in Las Vegas tonight and the thing as a college

00:32basketball purist that really frustrates me that we have two final four games in the same city

00:38that will be overlapping the Houston Alabama game and the players are a festival and also

00:43the Duke Kansas game which is going to tip off an hour later this to me is a disservice to the

00:49sport obviously at a time where the sport is very much at the forefront you I know that you've heard

00:55me say time and time again college basketball needs more standalone games I know that's not

01:00possible when we have this much inventory but I do know this staggering these tip-offs if the

01:05networks could work together would be better for the sport because Ben you saw it yesterday when

01:12we had that afternoon tip-off on the east coast of UConn in Memphis and it was the only real game

01:17going on there was nothing better it was like the first day of Hanukkah it really was the first day

01:24of Hanukkah and the Lahaina Civic Center one of the great scenes in college hoops we'll have the

01:29MGM grand be the host of the players era festival and then at the T-Mobile arena just down the

01:35script John in this final minute of this segment a top 15 tilt number 11 Duke and the top team in

01:41the country number one Kansas the Blue Devils four and a half point favorite against KU what

01:48are you looking for most John in this top 15 tilt between the blue bloods you know will Duke's

01:54defense continue to travel you know when I spent time in Durham in the preseason John Shire said

01:59repeatedly that he felt that this like would be a you know potentially his best defensive team

02:04since he's been at Duke Ben how about this no player on Duke's roster stands less than six foot

02:10five the Blue Devils held Arizona 255 at the McHale Center in Tucson on Friday Duke's defense

02:18I think will be the key in this game I'm keeping a close eye on Common Malawatch

02:22the talented 7'2 freshman against Hunter Dickinson I believe Malawatch the expat in the long term