LAS VEGAS There was something about shooting on the south end of the court at the Thomas & Mack Center.
You know the one, if you ve been there. During the Mountain West Tournament, the south end is the one where during normal years the band plays and the long media tunnel from the Cox Pavilion opens up into the 19,522-seat arena that hosts UNLV men s basketball. If you happen to be there during a Wyoming game, you can often see the famed Cowboy Ken pacing in those seats barrel and all.
It s opposite the end where Sam Merrill made his greatest memory last year, a 3-point shot to beat San Diego State and hand Utah State its second consecutive Mountain West Tournament title. It was the final shot of his career.
LAS VEGAS There was something about shooting on the south end of the court at the Thomas & Mack Center.
You know the one, if you ve been there. During the Mountain West Tournament, the south end is the one where during normal years the band plays and the long media tunnel from the Cox Pavilion opens up into the 19,522-seat arena that hosts UNLV men s basketball. If you happen to be there during a Wyoming game, you can often see the famed Cowboy Ken pacing in those seats barrel and all.
It s opposite the end where Sam Merrill made his greatest memory last year, a 3-point shot to beat San Diego State and hand Utah State its second consecutive Mountain West Tournament title. It was the final shot of his career.
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New Mexico coach Paul Weir gestures during the second half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Fresno State in the first round of the Mountain West Conference men’s tournament Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Paul Weir never did don that Cherry blazer.
Four seasons after the young, hotshot coach plucked away from rival New Mexico State was introduced as the new head coach of University of New Mexico men’s basketball at an unconventional press conference during which he quoted a Greek philosopher and bucked the program tradition of wearing a cherry blazer until he felt he earned it Weir walked alone off the Thomas & Mack Center court on Wednesday for the final time as the Lobos’ coach.