The madness was evident on Thursday as schools from the Mountain West, Pac-12 and Western Athletic Conference took to the hardwood in Las Vegas with one goal in mind: securing an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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Zach Lofton scored a team-high 21 points Thursday in the top-seeded Aggies’ 97-70 victory over No. 8 seed Chicago State in the WAC men’s tournament quarterfinals at Orleans Arena.
The final horn sounded Thursday and an admirable UNLV effort had been squelched by a better opponent, meaning it was again time to assess another basketball season.
Troy Brown is a projected NBA first-round pick for June’s draft.
As embattled Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller shook hands with myriad Colorado Buffaloes after the Wildcats’ 83-67 victory in the Pac-12 Tournament, leather-lunged fans at T-Mobile Arena let him have it.
The Pacific-12 Conference will call Las Vegas home for two weeks starting next year. The women’s basketball tournament will take place in Las Vegas for the next two seasons, commissioner Larry Scott said.
Handicapper Bernie Fratto loves the over in Thursday night’s New Mexico-Wyoming Mountain West quarterfinal matchup.
The eighth-seeded Rebels hung tough, but with a chance to tie the game, Jovan Mooring badly missed a 3-point shot with six seconds remaining, and the 22nd-ranked Wolf Pack won 79-74.
Bishop Gorman senior wing Jamal Bey was named the 2017-18 Gatorade Nevada Player of the Year for boys basketball, the company announced Thursday.
#VegasMadness updates: The Madness is truly getting underway in Las Vegas as the Mountain West, Western Athletic and Pac-12 conference tournaments have started. Review-Journal reporters are on-scene for all of it.