Good morning, and welcome to the Tuesday version of the Quickies. Tonight, of course, is the first really, really big basketball games of the season. The Kentucky Wildcats take on the Duke Blue Devils, followed by the Kansas Jayhawks vs. Michigan St. Spartans in the Champion’s Classic at the United Center in Chicago. This is a virtual feast of college basketball, and it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet.
The renewal of this event will see three of the Associated Press top 5 in action, along with #13 Michigan St. Some are calling it the Final Four in November, and it certainly has some of that feel to it, even if all four teams are likely only a shadow of what they will be come March.