What the UNLV basketball team said following its 83-63 loss to Oregon on Saturday in Portland, Oregon.
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Las Vegas will host five men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments this week.
MW officials want you to believe this is merely a momentary downturn in what is a cyclical process that will soon rebound to a time of multiple NCAA bids. That’s a huge stretch.
They will take on Oregon State in their first game, a Final Four team a year ago.
Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 83-63 loss to Oregon on Saturday at Moda Center in Portland.
Tyrell Green launched the 3-pointer, and it found the bottom of the net with 2 seconds left to bring UNLV to within four points of Oregon at halftime.
The second-ranked UCLA Bruins came into Las Vegas with an understandable confidence and dispatched Ohio State 86-73 on Saturday in the first game of the CBS Sports Classic at T-Mobile Arena.
Malik Monk’s 3-pointer with 16 seconds remaining capped his 47-point outburst and lifted No. 6 Kentucky to a 103-100 victory over No. 7 North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic at T-Mobile Arena.
In one week, T-Mobile Arena played host to four programs that could cut down nets in Arizona come April, offering just days before Christmas the sort of electric atmosphere more reserved for Sweet 16 or Elite Eight games.