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HOUSTON — The lobby at the downtown Hilton here Saturday afternoon was full of what college basketball coaches refer to as lounge lizards. They’re not talking about John Calipari and Jim Calhoun.
The first part everyone needs to get over is the denial, the pledges to remain in Las Vegas, to finish his coaching career at UNLV.
The easy thing would be to overreact because, well, that was one good ol’ fashioned butt whipping. UNLV’s basketball team got what it deserved in an NCAA Tournament game here Friday evening, thoroughly out-classed by Illinois at every spot and in every way.
There is a section of UNLV’s postseason basketball media guide titled “The Men in the Middle.”