It was one of those double-take moments Saturday afternoon, the kind you blink twice at while scrolling a Twitter feed without any warning of the brick wall ahead: Former Iowa State player and current New Orleans Pelican Bryce Dejean-Jones has died, the Dallas County coroner’s office confirms.
Rick Trachok, chairman of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, will propose that regents no longer vote on coaches’ contracts. The onus will be on the university president to put together a fiscally responsible deal.
Regents should have zero influence when it comes to those a university hires to run athletic programs, and that includes voting to approve the contracts offered coaches.
Wednesday is the deadline for players who haven’t signed with an agent to decide if they want to return to school or stay in the NBA Draft. The deadline was extended this year to 10 days after the combine ends.
More than 800 college basketball players are transferring, according to ESPN.com. Coaches who came to Las Vegas to take part in Coaches vs. Cancer don’t know how to solve the problem.
In less than a month, UNLV basketball coach Marvin Menzies has added eight players to the four already on the roster. His work isn’t done, but the Rebels have a good idea of what kind of lineup they will take into the season.
Carlos Johnson, a 6-foot-4-inch forward at Findlay Prep who previously committed to UNLV, will play basketball at Washington. He also considered Boise State and Oregon State.
Former UNLV standouts Stephen Zimmerman Jr. and Patrick McCaw could go late in the first round of the NBA Draft or drop into the second round, depending on which mock draft you believe.
UNLV added three more players to its basketball roster Wednesday, picking up commitments from Uche Ofoegbu, Jordan Johnson and Djordjije Sljivancanin.
UNLV basketball head coach Marvin Menzies and his assistant coaches Andre Lafleur, Rob Jeter and Eric Brown held a meet and greet with UNLV fans at Born and Raised in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
