{"id":749139,"date":"2026-05-31T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/749139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:15:21","slug":"louisville-to-open-players-era-festival-against-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/749139\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville to open Players Era Festival against Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Pat Kelsey\u2019s Louisville Cardinals will face Texas Tech in the first game of the Players Era Festival on Tuesday, Nov. 24 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A win over the Red Raiders could set up a Thanksgiving showdown against St. John\u2019s and former U of L head coach Rick Pitino.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the full bracket for the 16-team event:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/666604b869eb212d767f6523\/6a0f456bc3a443bd323d34ff_PE16%20Updateddd.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;View Link&quot;}\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Louisville is 0-2 all-time against Texas Tech, with both losses coming in early season play. In December of 2019, Chris Mack\u2019s top-ranked Cardinals fell to the Red Raiders by 13 (70-57) in New York. Three years later, Kenny Payne\u2019s first U of L team was embarrassed (70-38) by Tech at the Maui Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ticket information, game times, television assignments and more details will all be announced at a later date. Over the course of two weeks, all 37 games of the Players Era will be broadcasted on ESPN networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gonna be a heck of a Feast Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Kelsey\u2019s Louisville Cardinals will face Texas Tech in the first game of the Players Era Festival on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,9417,1984,231,772,67725,1544,7955,661],"class_list":["post-749139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-basketball-game","tag-ncaab","tag-pat-kelsey","tag-texas-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116671501004937818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}