The Mountain West basketball tournament could offer several surprising results after a close race during the regular season.
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The once-proud program has now gone a decade without qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
Becky Hammon played 16 seasons in the WNBA but never won a championship. She’s back in the finals now as coach of the Aces, who will play the Connecticut Sun.
The Thomas Mack Center felt just like Laramie, minus about 5,000 feet of elevation. Hosting the MW Tournament isn’t any sort of home-court advantage for UNLV. Hasn’t been for some time.
UNLV, which struggled to defend the 3-point line most of the season, held Air Force to 0 of 9 in the first half and 2 of 18 overall on 3s in Wednesday’s blowout.
Less than two weeks before the 2020-21 72-game NBA season starts Dec. 22, the Mavericks guard is the clear favorite to end the Bucks forward’s two-year reign as MVP.
South Point arena director Steve Stallworth, who worked for and with myriad Las Vegas sports teams, was instrumental in bringing big-time college basketball to town.
It wasn’t a good season for head college basketball coaches with Las Vegas ties. Two got fired. One almost got into a fight because of it.
For long stretches, particularly in the second half, the Rebels didn’t play well at all in an 89-82 win Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Jimmer Fredette will coach a team of former Mountain West Conference stars in The Basketball Tournament on Saturday and Sunday at Desert Oasis High School.