Western Athletic Conference presidents and athletic directors will decide Thursday whether fans will be allowed to watch the rest of the tournament games at Orleans Arena.
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Sam Gordon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is back for his second stint with the Review-Journal. He’s covered the NFL, NBA, the Big Ten, the Mountain West and prep sports for various publications during his professional tenure. Gordon, a University of Minnesota graduate, is a basketball junkie who coached high school basketball for three seasons.
Gonzaga rolled to an 84-66 victory over Saint Mary’s in the West Coast Conference championship game at Orleans Arena to win its seventh tournament title in eight seasons.
Haylee Andrews scored the go-ahead basket Tuesday with 1:05 remaining in overtime to lift Portland’s women’s basketball team to a 64-63 victory over San Diego.
Gonzaga held on to defeat San Francisco 81-77 on Monday night, while Saint Mary’s guard Jordan Ford made the game-winning jumper in a 51-50 victory over Brigham Young.
Alex Fowler made 10 of 17 field goals in a 76-69 win for the No. 4 Pilots over the No. 5 Tigers in the West Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals at Orleans Arena.
San Francisco raced to a 37-26 halftime lead over Loyola Marymount and rolled to an 82-53 victory Friday in the West Coast Conference tournament at Orleans Arena.
A star Las Vegas Aces player believes she contracted the coronavirus in January while playing in China.
The West Coast Conference began women’s basketball tournament play Thursday afternoon and has no plans to alter its schedule despite the first local coronavirus case.
Loyola Marymount senior Raychel Stanley, a Bishop Gorman graduate, capped her collegiate career Thursday with six points and five rebounds in a 72-63 loss to Saint Mary’s.
Alvarez (53-1-2, 35 knockouts) will fight undefeated super middleweight titlist Billy Joe Saunders (29-0, 14 KOs) on May 2.
The WAC has no plans to alter or change its men’s and women’s basketball tournament schedules despite the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Nevada.
The Athletics played two spring training games against the Indians during Big League Weekend, which returned to Las Vegas after a one-year hiatus in 2019 during the construction of Las Vegas Ballpark.
Eight college basketball tournaments will be played in Las Vegas in the next two weeks beginning Sunday with the Mountain West women’s tournament.
Will McClendon scored 14 points and Noah Taitz 13, and Bishop Gorman coasted to its ninth straight Class 4A state title with a 65-37 win over Desert Pines on Friday.
The Jaguars cruised to a 72-50 win over Durango in the Class 4A state basketball semifinals Thursday at Lawlor Events Center, and the Gaels rolled past Spanish Springs 67-17.