The No. 1 St. Mary’s and No. 2 Gonzaga men’s basketball teams will be the top seeds when the West Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament begins in Las Vegas later this week.
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After four months of changes at the top, the votes are in and the Oscar for the best college basketball team goes to Kansas. The acceptance speech will be made by coach Bill Self.
Without an ideal central spot, the state basketball tournament in Nevada has alternated between Reno and Las Vegas since 2005. And that’s why the 10 Las Vegas-area schools that advanced to championship games had to travel more than 400 miles to Reno last week to play at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.
Last summer, UNLV senior basketball players Aley Rohde and Amie Callaway — the only two upperclassmen on the Lady Rebels — went to a bunch of sentimental movies together.
After spending the two previous days as a spectator at UNLV’s basketball practice, Jerome Seagears didn’t even do much at Saturday’s pregame shootaround.
On the January evening Dave Rice was fired just three games into the Mountain West schedule, as unprecedented a move as you will find in college basketball, he looked UNLV’s seniors in the eyes and promised they would see him again.
Kaylani Smartt led a balanced attack with 15 points Saturday to help Owyhee to a 61-54 win over McDermitt in the Division IV girls basketball state championship game at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.
Ashlyn Huntington buried the go-ahead free throws with 9.5 seconds remaining, and White Pine held on for a 44-43 victory over Incline in a back-and-forth Division III state title game at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.
Clark effectively milked the clock with a patient offense and played suffocating defense on its way to a 43-39 win over Desert Pines on Saturday at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center. Clark (22-9) won its third straight Division I-A state title.
Sam Caruth finished with a game-high 28 points, and Faith Lutheran exorcised two seasons worth of demons with a 50-47 win over Spring Valley in the Division I-A state title game at UNR’s Lawlor Events Center.