{"id":279794,"date":"2026-05-21T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279794\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:44:17","slug":"mens-basketball-to-face-notre-dame-in-players-era-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279794\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball to Face Notre Dame in Players Era Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida men&#8217;s basketball will square off vs. Notre Dame in the Nov. 17 opener of the Players Era 8 event at the Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe winner of the Florida-Notre Dame matchup will take on the winner of Houston vs. Rutgers in the semifinal matchup on Nov. 18, with the Players Era 8 championship set for Nov. 19. The opposite side of the bracket includes West Virginia vs. Auburn and Kansas vs. UNLV in the opening round.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis will be the first all-time meeting between Florida and Notre Dame.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll games will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, with times and specific network designations to be announced later.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlayers Era 8 | Tuesday-Thursday, Nov. 17-19 at Michelob ULTRA Arena<br \/>\nTuesday, Nov. 17 \u2013 Opening Round Games (All times TBD)<br \/>\nFlorida vs. Notre Dame<br \/>\nHouston vs. Rutgers<br \/>\nWest Virginia vs. Auburn<br \/>\nKansas vs. UNLV<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWednesday, Nov. 18 (All times TBD)<br \/>\nSemifinal #1 &#8211; WINNER (Houston\/Rutgers) vs. WINNER (Florida\/Notre Dame)<br \/>\nSemifinal #2 &#8211; WINNER (West Virginia\/Auburn) vs. WINNER (Kansas\/UNLV)<br \/>\nConsolation #1<br \/>\nConsolation #2<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThursday, Nov. 19 (All times TBD)<br \/>\nChampionship Game<br \/>\nThird-Place Game<br \/>\nConsolation #3<br \/>\nConsolation #4<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2026-27 Season Ticket Deposits<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/gators\/en\/buy\/2026-27GatorsMensBasketballSeasonTicketDeposits?utm_source=WEB&amp;utm_medium=TIX&amp;utm_campaign=MBK-SEASON&amp;camefrom=CFC_GATORS_WEB_TIX_MBK-SEASON\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get in line for season tickets<\/a> by placing a $100 deposit per seat and you will be contacted to purchase as soon as tickets are on sale!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nReturning season ticket holders from the 2025-26 season need not place a deposit. Your seats are being held for you and renewal information will be sent to you.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida men&#8217;s basketball will square off vs. Notre Dame in the Nov. 17 opener of the Players Era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-279794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}