Local baseball fans have berated the Las Vegas Aviators’ logo since its unveiling in December. The rest of the nation is now following suit.
Sam Gordon
Former Columnist/Enterprise
UNLV basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger inherits a roster that includes seven players who have entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, and he affirmed his desire to retain them.
The Ducks opened the second half on a 20-7 run to seal a 68-48 win over the Huskies on Saturday and the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
Top-seeded Washington defeated Colorado 66-61 and Oregon edged Arizona State 79-75 in overtime Friday night to advance to the championship game of the Pac-12 Tournament.
The 6-foot-7-inch sophomore averaged 6.1 points and 5.1 rebounds last year for the Buffaloes, but assumed a more prominent role and nearly doubled his production in both to 13.2 and 9.7 en route to All-Pac-12 first-team honors.
Officials at American Preparatory Academy said they knew about Dave Bliss’ sordid past at Baylor University when they hired him as the charter school’s athletic director and basketball coach.
Thornton, who played two years at Findlay Prep and a year at Duke, scored 12 points on 6-of-9 shooting, and added three steals as a reserve to spark a 78-65 victory over the Wildcats in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament.
The Pac-12 tournament begins Wednesday at T-Mobile Arena without a team ranked in the AP 25, and with only two in position to secure bids to the NCAA Tournament, according toESPN’s Joe Lunardi.
The Cardinal finished second in the league during the regular season but embarked on a 16-3 run over the final five minutes to cement a 64-57 win over the regular-season champion Ducks.
Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu, a 5-foot-11 point guard, has flaunted in Las Vegas the precocious skillset that has helped her net an NCAA record 17 triple-doubles and emerge as perhaps the top prospect in next month’s WNBA Draft.
Madison Washington, a junior at Oregon State, had two points and two rebounds in a 68-67 upset loss to Washington in the Pac-12 women’s tournament quarterfinals Friday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Utah freshman forward Dre’Una Edwards, a Liberty High graduate, averaged 11.6 points and 6.7 rebounds and shot 54 percent from the field before tearing her right ACL on Feb. 22.
Sam Thomas — a Centennial graduate and the 2016-17 state Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year — is averaging 9.5 points and 3.7 rebounds in 34.1 minutes per game for Arizona.
Vegas Madness returns as men’s and women’s college basketball teams from four Division I conferences will congregate in Las Vegas and attempt to solidify the coveted automatic berths to the NCAA Tournament.
Senior guard Lainey Cornwall scored a game-high 20 points and made two free throws with 3.8 seconds left to help Moapa Valley cement a 43-38 victory over Lowry in the Class 3A state semifinals Friday at Orleans Arena.