The Pac-12 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and football championship game will be played as scheduled in Las Vegas this coming year, but what happens after that remains to be seen.
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San Diego State lost to a better Connecticut team, allowing the Huskies to celebrate their fifth national title and affording the Aztecs all sorts of heartache.
UConn won its fifth national title since 1999, but first since Dan Hurley was hired to bring back the program after its fall from grace.
It began back in 1999, the Aztecs eyeing the defensive end of the floor as a way to create a successful program.
The Mean Green once again buckled down on defense down the stretch and won the NIT title at Orleans Arena with a win over Alabama-Birmingham.
A beat writer for the first seven years of the Steve Fisher Era, columnist Ed Graney remembers how the Aztecs’ program was built.
The Conference USA foes will meet in Thursday’s championship game after pulling out narrow victories in the first NIT semifinal round to be played in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas native Trey Woodbury, who starred at Clark High School, will end his career with Utah Valley at Orleans Arena. The Wolverines play UAB on Tuesday in the NIT semifinals.
Ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic is two victories from winning the national championship. The Owls are 2-point underdogs to San Diego State in the Final Four semifinals.
For the first time since seeding began in 1979, no team seeded better than No. 4 has made the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. No. 4 UConn is the highest remaining seed.