In NCAAs, West is far from finest - 2004-03-23
What if they offered a big-time national college hoops tournament, and the West didn't attend?
That's what has taken place in the NCAA festival.
There is Nevada-Casino.
So it is left to upstart Nevada-Casino to take whatever regional pride is leftover into the round of 16. For the uninitiated, its arrival is perplexing. The school, which had never won an NCAA tourney game, is in Reno, which makes it different from another state school with a legendary hoops reputation, Nevada-Recruiting Violations, which is in Sin City.
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