Matt Norlander has spent the past few days on the Vegas Strip, bouncing back and forth between the two arenas hosting this year's Players Era Championship. He's been providing insider information throughout each day of the event. You can read his Monday notebook here and his recap from Tuesday here .

LAS VEGAS — When the AP Top 25 refreshed on Monday, Kansas found itself in a place it hadn't been since 2005.

Unranked in the month of November.

That departure will be a one-week deal, however, as Kansas earned by far its best win of the season on Wednesday, beating No. 17 Tennessee 81-76 in the third-place game of the Players Era Championship. The Jayhawks did it in head-turning fashion: without star point guard Darryn Peterson for the sixth straight game; after trailing by as many

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