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If you read part one of my feast week megapreview last week, you’ll remember that I left one tournament off the list: the Players Era Championship . Though it’s just the second year of this event, it looms over the rest of Feast Week like the Burj Khalifa over the Dubai skyline. It’s so astronomically massive that even the best of the “other” events look tiny. Consider that over four days in Las Vegas we’ll see: ·      27 games contested by 18 teams ·      13 of these 18 tea

It’s the largest concentration of college hoops until the maelstrom of Championship Week in early March. It features pivotal neutral site contests that will impact who makes the March Madness field and shape the contours of the bracket. It’s the biggest week (ish) of the nonconference schedule. It overlaps with college football’s rivalry weekend, the regular season’s last gasp, to create an apex moment in the college sports calendar. What is it? It’s Feast Week (is that an ES

It took until Sunday of the first weekend, but the NCAA tournament finally feels like it has arrived. A seemingly abnormal spate of...

Periodically throughout this year's tournament I'll post a random assortment of observations and commentary. I'll major on the pursuit of...