Oftentimes, Thanksgiving week tournaments include a few top-tier, main-dish matchups among a mishmash of options that can be hit-or-miss. Kind of like Thanksgiving dinner.
The Ball Dawgs Classic, which begins Monday, Nov. 25 outside of Las Vegas, fortunately features more of the former, as three top-15 ranked teams are participating in the four-team tournament. With apologies to the DePaul Blue Demons, the opportunity to watch the Oklahoma Sooners, Kansas State Wildcats and Duke Blue Devils make the event a must-watch attraction.
The tournament will open with a Duke-Kansas State matchup, with the winner of that contest likely to meet Oklahoma in the championship game on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Here are three big, literally, reasons to tune into the tourney:
Will Ayoka Lee bully the Blue Devils?
The beginning of the Kansas State grad center’s fifth college season has been expectedly fantastic. With little flash or flair, Ayoka Lee is an efficient and effective offensive force, unleashing her arsenal of low-post moves to average 19 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the Wildcats. Remarkably, she’s doing that while playing less than 15 minutes per game! At her current pace, she’d be scoring over 51 points per game if she played a full 40 minutes.
While that’s…
