Thursday was Expansion Day in the college basketball world, with both NCAA tournaments and the polarizing Players Era Festival announcing they would grow in 2027. The Big Dance, naturally, gobbled up all the headlines. However, Houston coach Kelvin Sampson pointed out an intriguing, and potentially frustrating wrinkle that the Players Era Festival could throw into the men’s season. First, some background: the Players Era Festival is a regular-season tournament hosted in Las Vegas. Last year, it was already the biggest tournament of its kind at 18 teams, and in the coming season the field will expand to 24. The teams involved will be grouped into an eight-team bracket and a 16-team bracket, the former of which will tip off on Nov. 16 and the latter of which will begin Nov. 23 (the Monday before Thanksgiving). Here’s what Sampson—whose Cougars are slated for the eight-team bracket—had to say about the proceedings.…