Virgin Valley’s boys basketball team started a difficult stretch of league play on Monday night, playing the first of five upcoming road games. Garrett Leavitt and the team’s defense made sure the Bulldogs started the stretch off right.
Basketball
Sometimes big isn’t necessarily better.
A year ago, Kevin Olekaibe was in the other locker room, listening to the other coach, and not fearing the other team. At that time, the opponent was UNLV.
No state championships will be decided when Bishop Gorman meets Findlay Prep in boys basketball today. But it’s not exactly an exhibition game, either.
On Tuesday, Arbor View’s Justin Burks set a school record with 36 points in an overtime win over Durango. He managed to top that Friday.
Mike Moulchin had a heavy heart while guiding his Clark girls basketball team Thursday. Bobbi Floyd’s runner in the lane in the closing seconds and a few narrow escapes helped lift Moulchin’s spirits.
Virtually every player who was asked to commit to the USA Basketball men’s national team said ‘Yes” when asked to participate in the upcoming Olympic cycle, which begins this summer with the FIBA World Cup in Spain.
Like the lunatic fan everyone despises but tolerates because the home team wins when he attends the party or the nutcase who retires to his basement to create more good luck for his favorite side, UNLV should immediately enroll in a local hotel’s rewards program.
Deville Smith scored 18 points, and Roscoe Smith totaled 13 points and 14 rebounds to carry UNLV to a 62-42 victory over Utah State at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Here’s what kind of night it was for Canyon Springs’ Gerad Davis on Wednesday. The 6-foot-4-inch senior scored 25 points in the first half for the Pioneers. Then at halftime, a female classmate ran onto the court and asked him to the upcoming school dance.
About three minutes remained in the first half of the UNLV-Utah State basketball game Wednesday night at the Thomas & Mack Center. The score was tied at 24. And given what has happened to the Rebels at times this season, it was easy to expect the worst from them.
Correctly predicting the outcome of every game in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is no layup. There’s now a $1 billion prize waiting for anyone able to pull off the feat this spring.
Stew Morrill is a coach known by few outside his profession’s fraternity and yet respected as much as anyone within it.
It’s difficult for UNLV coach Dave Rice to pinpoint what has bothered his basketball team on its home floor. Still, he might have the answer.
Liberty girls basketball coach Rich Santigate subscribes to a straightforward coaching philosophy. “I was taught you come with everything in the ball bag,” Santigate said, “and you use what you have to use.” On Monday, that turned out to be a change in defense.
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