LAS VEGAS — The four-sided video board hanging from the ceiling in Mandalay Bay’s Michelob Ultra Arena shows the score, time, period and a variety of team and individual statistics, along with a live feed of the action.

During timeouts, though, it switches to advertisements and crowd shots. The numbers go away.

Mercifully, it turns out, for San Diego State’s basketball team, saving it from having to look at them.

The Aztecs’ showdown with No. 7-ranked Michigan was a game for exactly four minutes, which was how long it took one of the best college rosters NIL can buy to erase an early deficit and shift into overdrive en route to a dominant, convincing, emphatic, unequivocal 94-54 victory on the opening night of the 18-team Players Era Festival.

Or put more succinctly: The Aztecs got tak

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