Troy Brown is a projected NBA first-round pick for June’s draft.
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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.
#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.
Breaking down UNLV’s game against No. 22 UNR in the Mountain West men’s basketball tournament quarterfinals at noon Thursday at the Thomas Mack Center.
The No. 22 Wolf Pack are 5½-point favorites over the Rebels at most Las Vegas sports books after the line opened at 5.
The schedule for March 8 tournament basketball games in Las Vegas.
Kathy Olivier sat at a podium at the Thomas Mack Center Tuesday night and delivered an important message. “They have more basketball to play,” the Lady Rebels coach said of her team.
Vegas Madness was just getting started on the men’s side when a hometown kid was introduced to a hometown crowd at T-Mobile Arena at high noon Wednesday.
Colorado’s Tad Boyle will be coaching with an injured calf for the remainder of the Pac-12 tournament. Boyle hurt himself after rushing to the court to stop a late-game skirmish and left T-Mobile Arena with a boot on his right foot.
Grand Canyon senior guard Brie Mobley scored a game-high 19 points to lift the Antelopes to a 72-56 victory over Utah Valley in their debut in the WAC women’s tournament at Orleans Arena.
Arizona State players remain confident about their NCAA Tournament hopes after falling to Colorado on Wednesday.
UNLV advanced to meet No. 1 seed UNR by outlasting Air Force 97-90 in overtime of a Mountain West tournament first-round game Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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