The Players Era Festival in Las Vegas was always going to be a tough challenge for Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish were slated to face Rutgers and Houston, with a third game against an opponent to be determined after Wednesday's matchups.

The Notre Dame men’s basketball team will remember its first game of the Players Era Festival for a lot of reasons. Unfortunately, it won’t be for a victory it lost an 85-84 overtime thriller to Rutgers in Las Vegas.

Disaster struck for Notre Dame only a few minutes into its Players Era Festival opener against Rutgers in Las Vegas. As standout guard Markus Burton drove to the basket for a short field goal, he fell down,

Notre Dame men's basketball and Rutgers renewed their Big East rivalry in the first round of the new Players Era Festival tournament in Las Vegas

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Markus Burton had a big night for Notre Dame, scoring 29 points to lead the Irish to a 75-58 win over visiting North Dakota on Tuesday night in South Bend,

Las Vegas Strip in the middle of the night crazy, when you see and hear and experience stuff that you only read about in books.  Notre Dame men’s basketball lost its best player to a right leg injury early,

Notre Dame’s worst-case scenario may have just happened. Sophomore guard Markus Burton, the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year and a preseason first-team All-ACC selection, exited Tuesday night’s game Rutgers with a knee injury.

First, let’s give Notre Dame extra credit: the Irish lost Markus Burton early in the game - he scored just two points - and still took Rutgers to the wire. Matt Alloco scored 24