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    College basketball rankings: Kansas surges after Players Era Festival run

    Kansas fans were worried, and they are, on some level. It was a good week for Bill Self, who, in the worst case scenario, could have ended December with a losing season, the first since he went 0-2 in 1994 at Oral Roberts. But it wasn’t that bad. KU won the Players Era Festival 3-0.

    This is confusing and absurd. It was an 18 team tournament, and it was possible for a team to win the Players Era Festival without winning the trophy. Kansas and Iowa State did it, with the Jayhawks coming in third and the Cyclones fifth. It’s a mystery why the organizers did not anticipate that the goofy format they used would overshadow the exciting matchups. The organizers of the event should remember, before next year, that college basketball tournaments without brackets are not really tournaments. Even if they insist it’s a tournament, college basketball enthusiasts will never accept it in the same way that they are accustomed to accepting tournaments with brackets – some with as many as 68 teams and some with as few as four. Obviously, it was the third team that won. It was a 81 – 76 win over a Tennessee squad that had a 7-0 start. Highlighted by a neutral court win over Houston. When the Jayhawks entered Las Vegas, they were expecting to finish with a 3-5 score. Instead, the Jayhawks are leaving Las Vegas with a 6-2 mark that includes a victory against Tennessee. The Jayhawks have risen to the No. Tennessee is now ranked No. 14 in the updated CBS Sports Top 25 and 1 daily college basketball ranking. If you are looking for an answer to the movement of the Top 25 and 1, I’ll give you one: I moved North Carolina up from No. The Tar Heels jumped from No. 19 to No. 13 even though the Tar Heels did not play on Wednesday.

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    2025-11-27 13:49:37

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