Word: unlv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West: San Francisco, UNLV, UCLA, Fresno State...
Saturday night on Bourbon Street, after the Indiana-UNLV game. Indiana won, and ten thousand delirious fraternity boys in red T shirts were in the street, drinking heavily. Here and where we saw more subdued though equally dipsomaniac Runnin' Rebel fans, but the evening was for crewcut Hoosiers from the cornfields. Television crews were out, and every few blocks we saw big knots of people, all struggling to get an alcohol flushed face or at least a clenched fist into evening news immortality. Impassive mounted police stood at the corners, staring from under plexiglass visors while the horses suffered raucous...
West: We all know UNLV's tournament history, but it just doesn't matter this year. No one in the top half of the West regional has the inside firepower to exploit UNLV's 6-ft., 8-in. 190-ib. Jarvis Basnight. Freddie Banks leads an offensive machine that has doubled the three-point output of any of the UNLV's early-round opponents, and the power game of Armon "Hammer" Gilliam (23.2 p.p.g., 9.3 r.p.g.) will put the nail in the coffin...
Unfortunately, neither Pitt nor Iowa has the horses to take out UNLV. Banks and Wade will make either backcourt look inadequate, and unless Charles Smith takes it stronger than usual, UNLV's headed to New Orleans...
...Williams' light, the image of the outlaw team brightens. "The old man ((Tarkanian)) runs a straight deal," he says firmly, "and the whole community is protective of it." Betting on UNLV games is not only illegal, it appears to be that rarest thing in town, immoral. "If a player so much as walked into a casino," Williams declares, "everyone would rise up and say, 'No, no, uh-uh, forget it.' I mean, just the idea of it is offensive. That's like our one normal thing: college basketball. The word would get back to Tark in about seven minutes...