The Broncos defeat San Jose State 76-67 and will try to win their first conference title since claiming the Western Athletic Conference championship in 2007. They will face New Mexico, a 64-53 winner over Fresno State.
Basketball
The WAC tournament tips off its fifth straight year at Orleans Arena today. The attendance numbers reflect the instability in the conference, as an average of 1,284 attended the four sessions last year and 1,518 were there for the title game.
Chris Wood was sensational on Wednesday. The sophomore forward, who may be playing his final games with the program, clearly wants to continue the season.
The Pac-12 struck gold when its basketball tournament from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The atmosphere at the MGM Grand Garden Arena is electric and the Pac-12 hoopfest is the hottest ticket in town.
Chris Wood rose to the occasion Wednesday, scoring 28 points and grabbing seven rebounds to lift the seventh-seeded Rebels to a 67-46 victory over 10th-seeded UNR in a Mountain West tournament first-round game at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNR fired head coach David Carter within hours after the season ended on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
UNLV opens the Mountain West Tournament against UNR today at the Thomas & Mack. Tip is at 2:30 p.m.
Mountain West basketball this season has neither been good enough from top to bottom or in possession of a dominating team to suggest anything is inconceivable as the conference tournament opens today at the Thomas & Mack Center.
On the day before the Mountain West basketball tournament, reality hit. It actually hit a long time ago. But Chris Wood shook his head when discussing how the Rebels ended up getting buried in the conference standings.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs won their third straight West Coast Conference basketball tournament on Tuesday night at Orleans Arena with a 91-75 victory over Brigham Young in front of a tournament-record crowd of 8,585.
You would have to be crazy to think you can master the betting process for the NCAA’s annual college basketball tournament. That’s part of why it’s called March Madness.
Arizona coach Sean Miller isn’t fixated on being one of the top seeds in next week’s NCAA tournament. But he wants the Wildcats to play well at this week’s Pacific-12 tourney at the MGM and have some momentum going into next week.
Boise State defeated the UNLV women’s basketball team 64-46 in the Mountain West basketball tournament quarterfinals at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Lady Rebels’ season ends at 13-17.
There was a time not so long ago when the West Coast Conference basketball tournament bracket could pretty much be filled out in pen with Gonzaga playing Saint Mary’s in the championship game. The seventh-ranked Bulldogs appear to have a new foil.
Not that it comes as a surprise, but the injury report on freshman guard Rashad Vaughn is bad news for UNLV, which is planning for the postseason without its leading scorer.
