Regular-season champion UNLV will play Utah State at noon Monday in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West women’s basketball tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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It’s no accident that college basketball maintains its foothold here that preceded — and paved the way for — the arrival of its professional sporting counterparts.
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Saint Mary’s and San Francisco are viable alternatives for bettors for the West Coast Conference tournament, which starts Thursday at Orleans Arena.
Each entry for the winner-take-all contest costs $25, but $100 gets five entries. Bettors pick one game ATS each day of the NCAA Tournament, 10 days in all.
Las Vegas again will host to a plethora of college basketball beginning Wednesday with a record number of venues hosting 10 different conference tournaments.
As many as 20 teams are capable of winning the national basketball championship, Las Vegas oddsmakers and handicappers say. Gonzaga is the +450 favorite at BetMGM.
The No. 1 Bulldogs and No. 2 Bruins battled in the final of the Good Sam Empire Classic, drawing an enthused crowd of 12,975 to watch a rematch of one of the most memorable games in Final Four history.
For men’s basketball, the week tips off Monday with men’s basketball in the Maui Invitational and ends Friday with top-ranked Gonzaga meeting Duke at T-Mobile Arena.
In the coming months, Las Vegas will be a basketball Mecca with early-season tournaments and neutral-site games filling arenas around the city.
The Big West announced Thursday that it had signed a multi-year agreement to hold the conference’s basketball tournaments at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson beginning in March.
The NCAA could go to single sites for the later rounds of its men’s basketball tournament, but likely not until at least the 2026-27 academic year.
A closer look at each of the teams in the Midwest region, with players to watch, potential bracket busters and a pick to reach the Final Four.
Utah State received a No. 11 seed in the South region and will play Texas Tech on Saturday. San Diego State will meet Syracuse on Friday in the Midwest region.
UCLA, which has lost four straight, joins Oregon, Oregon State, USC and Colorado in the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins were among the last four selected for the field of 68.
