Bishop Gorman big men Chase Jeter and Stephen Zimmerman were named co-players of the year to highlight the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s all-state boys basketball team. Jeter averaged 16.8 points and 10.8 rebounds, and Zimmerman averaged 14.4 points and 10.1 rebounds.
Kentucky is 34-0 — with a few close calls along the way — and the clear favorite to win the national championship when the NCAA Tournament begins in earnest Thursday. Here are some underdog plays for Thursday and Friday.
The NCAA Tournament was reduced to 64 teams after two play-in games Tuesday and two Wednesday. The second round begins Thursday and continues Friday. Las Vegas sports books have posted prop bets for the tournament. Here’s a sampling from Westgate Las Vegas.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete with handicappers Bruce Marshall and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games today and Friday.
Jordan Sibert overcame early foul trouble to score 13 points – including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 34 seconds remaining – as the host Flyers downed the Broncos in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The regular-season games have wrapped up, Selection Sunday is history and March Madness action begins with the First Four games tipping off Tuesday. Here’s how you can catch all the action.
Lucky Jones tallied 21 points, seven rebounds and a career-high tying five steals as the Colonials overcame a double-digit, second-half deficit to defeat the Ospreys in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Dayton, Ohio.
Game experts and numerologists agree the way to win your office bracket pool is to pick … against Kentucky?
Here is a sampling of some of the city’s plethora of NCAA Tournament viewing parties.
UCLA-SMU is one of the most interesting matchups on Thursday. Both teams come in with chips on their shoulders, and they feature high profile coaches — 74-year-old Larry Brown at SMU and Steve Alford at UCLA.
Syracuse University head basketball coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years, the school said Wednesday, less than two weeks after the NCAA slapped the school with severe sanctions amid a lengthy investigation of its athletic programs.
Two prominent local travel basketball coaches said this week that Rebels athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy put Dave Rice in an awkward position on the recruiting trail this summer when she publicly placed him on the hot seat.
