UNLV Basketball
You need heart to win NCAA Tournament games. You need leadership on the basketball court. You need to play together. You need, above all, mental and physical toughness.
Colorado basketball coach Tad Boyle couldn’t say no to the itch that draws all sorts of men, commodity traders included, to coach basketball. He sort of liked the idea of waking up to a sweatsuit rather than a three-piece suit.
His name was Henry V. Porter, and he was writing an essay on the state high school basketball tournament in Illinois. It was 1939.
They can tweet all the expletives they want, and they can set world-record times for getting from a morgue of a locker room to a morgue of a bus, and they can talk about being disappointed until every flake of snow has melted atop the Rockies, but UNLV’s basketball team has only itself to blame for its Mountain West Conference standing today.