Vegas Insider handicapper Brian Edwards expects Maryland to cover as 2-point favorites over Northwestern at 6 p.m. Friday and also is backing Notre Dame as 2-point underdogs to Florida State at 6:30 p.m.
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An average crowd of 5,301 showed up through the first three sessions at the Thomas & Mack Center, and for the second year in a row, the Mountain West is expected to be a one-bid league.
Boise State defeated Fresno State 66-53 in the Mountain West women’s tournament final at the Thomas & Mack Center to claim the conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
Vegas Madness Day eight is here. We’ll be live-tweeting from all the games today.
We may be down to the last couple of days of Vegas Madness, but it’s not over yet.
Adam Hill from the Las Vegas Review-Journal updates all of the tournament madness happening around the valley and previews what’s to come at the WAC, PAC-12 and Mountain West tournaments.
Fresno State is hot again, looking to win the Mountain West basketball tournament title for the second year in a row. The Bulldogs will face UNR in the semifinals on Friday.
Utah Valley defeated Seattle University 65-53 on Thursday at Orleans Arena in the Western Athletic Conference tournament to set up a date with top-seeded Cal State Bakersfield on Friday.
Oregon forward Dillon Brooks, a former Findlay Prep star who was the Pacific 12 Conference Player of the Year, plays a smarter brand of basketball these days.
UNLV was eliminated by Fresno State for the second straight season in the Mountain West women’s basketball tournament, falling 53-51 Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Organizers decided to sideline the Vegas 16 postseason basketball tournament because they weren’t assured of receiving the teams needed to make it work. The tournament launched last year.
Vegas Madness is all over town today with the Mountain West, WAC and Pac-12 men all in action at three different venues. We’ll be live-blogging from the different venues all day.
Vegas Madness continues today with the Mountain West and WAC women taking the day off and the MW, WAC and Pac-12 men in action all day.
Adam Hill, Ed Graney and Mark Anderson from the Las Vegas Review-Journal analyze the UNLV men’s basketball team’s loss and what the team can do in the offseason to improve.
Alexis Montgomery led the second-seeded Seattle Redhawks to a 78-60 win over Chicago State with her third double-double this season.