UNLV basketball received the sort of news not usually expected from a team coming off the worst season in program history with the commitment of a five-star prospect.
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The Westgate sports book has a prop pitting the Warriors (minus-200) versus the field (plus-175), and manager Jeff Sherman expects Golden State to cash as the heaviest favorite he can recall since the late 1990s Bulls title teams led by Michael Jordan.
A Las Vegas man recently spent $1,500 to take his family to see Cleveland play the Clippers in Los Angeles, only to have the Cavaliers rest star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
While it’s always a pleasing sound for basketball coaches when a fax machine signals the impending arrival of a signed letter of intent, welcoming new players to your program in 2017 now comes with a hint of apprehension.
An NCAA representative dismissed a proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, despite abysmal attendance at this year’s regionals.
The Tar Heels have a sixth national championship and are deserving in the sense they proved to be the better of two teams hardly at their best and yet never permitted to be Monday night.
A look at Monday’s NCAA men’s national championship basketball game.
The opening chapter of how the Rebels went from a team under Lon Kruger that made four NCAA fields his last five years to one that just concluded the worst season in program history begins in 2011, when Nigel Williams-Goss was a sophomore at Findlay Prep.
Former Bishop Gorman High star Zach Collins told anyone who would listen that he wouldn’t want to be South Carolina players facing him in a Final Four game Saturday, and he was dead serious.
Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.
