Many women’s basketball eyes will be on Las Vegas this week when three of the top four teams in the country play in the Players Era Women’s Championship.

The Florida Gators remain a top-10 team entering the new week. They hold steady at 10th in the latest AP Top 25 for men's basketball. Florida is the second-highest ranked SEC team in the top 25, just behind eighth-ranked Alabama.

The Players Era Festival starts Monday in Las Vegas. It's an 18-team tournament (with a weird format) that pays schools millions of dollars to be there. How will the title game be decided? Will it ever be financially feasible? Is it responsible for the field of the 2025 Maui Invitational being ... lackluster?

The Players Era boldly announced its intentions last year to be the premier early season college basketball tournament destination, guaranteeing at least $1 million in name, image and likeness money to each of the eight participating teams.

Despite currently being ranked No. 17 in the country, per the AP poll, the Illini are a consensus top-five team in the nation as far as the metrics are concerned.

As tipoff for 2025-26 KHSAA girls basketball season approaches, we take team-by-team look at the Seventh Region, including top players and outlooks.

There are some teams with stacked rosters in 2025-26, and other teams poised for big bounce-back seasons. Here's a look at our rankings for the top 10 teams in Iowa, regardless of class, ahead of the season’s first games on Dec. 1.

This week’s Orange County boys basketball Top 25. The team records are through Nov. 23. 1. Santa Margarita 3-0: Eagles beat Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 77-73 in the Trinity-Mission Showcase event at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.