The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Tuesday extended its sponsorship of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament through 2020 by unanimously authorizing $500,000 to fund the four-day event.
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No. 10 Butler, a 1-point favorite over No. 7 Arkansas, was the only lower seed favored over a higher seed when Las Vegas sports books posted the opening lines Sunday for the NCAA Tournament, which opens on Tuesday and starts in earnest Thursday.
The Mountain West is sending multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. Regular-season champion UNR was chosen as a seventh seed and Mountain West tourney champ San Diego State as a No. 11.
The madness continued Saturday across the Las Vegas Valley as teams from the Pac-12, Mountain West and Western Athletic Conference looked to punch their tickets to the Big Dance.
Deandre Ayton did it all offensively, but it was his momentum-changing pass to Rawle Alkins that gave Arizona its second straight Pac-12 men’s tournament title Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Senior guard Zach Lofton scored a game-high 23 points in New Mexico State’s 72-58 win over Grand Canyon on Saturday night at Orleans Arena.
The Anteaters have gone under in 15 of their past 20 games, and the Titans have gone under in three straight and 11 of 14 (11-2-1).
Trey Kell scored a career-high 28 points to lead San Diego State to an 82-75 victory over New Mexico in the Mountain West championship game Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Redhawks defeated Cal State Bakersfield 57-54 on Saturday at Orleans Arena to win the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament.
Southern California is on a 15-2-1 under streak, and Arizona is on a 7-2 under run.
It wasn’t a good season for head college basketball coaches with Las Vegas ties. Two got fired. One almost got into a fight because of it.
The madness continues across the Las Vegas valley as teams from the Pac-12, Mountain West and Western Athletic Conference look to punch their tickets to the Big Dance.
Deandre Ayton, the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Wildcats’ 78-67 overtime victory over UCLA before an announced crowd of 16,596 at T-Mobile Arena.
San Diego State beat top-seeded and 22nd-ranked UNR for the second time in six days, but nobody could have predicted the ease with which it won.
The Antelopes are one win away from their first Division I NCAA tournament appearance.