For five of the region’s Division I conferences, what happens in Vegas … can get them to March Madness.
It used to be that the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament was the time when hoteliers, restaurateurs and the rest of the hospitality and gambling industries looked forward to the third weekend in March, when fans bored with office pools descended on the hotels and their casinos and sports books to watch college basketball.
it may have softened college administrators’ resistance to playing within walking distance of a casino. And the Supreme Court’s decision in 2018 to strike down state laws against sports betting may have convinced NCAA and individual schools’ administrators that it was foolish to continue to demonize Las Vegas.
T-Mobile has hosted the Pac-12 men’s tournament this week, which ended with Saturday night’s championship game between UCLA and Arizona. The Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort was the home of this year’s Pac-12 women’s tournament, which finished last Sunday with Washington State shocking UCLA in the championship game.
The West Coast Conference and WAC arrived took were next, moving their tournaments in 2009 to the same place, the aforementioned Orleans Arena, located a couple of miles south of the Strip.
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