LAS VEGAS — Now things really heat up.
The meat of the Mountain West tournament starts Thursday, and one of many scintillating matchups is a quarterfinal game between the Nevada and Colorado State men’s basketball teams.
Both are NCAA Tournament bound but playing for seeding and a berth in the Mountain West semifinals.
Here’s a look at everything to know about Thursday’s quarterfinal Mountain West tournament game in Las Vegas:
The game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
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CSU is 23-9 overall and the No. 7 seed. Nevada is 26-6 and the No. 2 seed.
Nevada is No. 22 in the USA TODAY coaches poll and No. 23 in the AP poll.
The winner of CSU and Nevada advances to Friday’s semifinals to face the winner of Boise State and New Mexico.
CSU is led by Niko Medved, who is in his sixth season as head coach of the Rams. He’s 115-73 at CSU and 194-161 overall in his career. Steve Alford is in his fifth season leading Nevada, where he has a 96-57 record. Alford is 605-326 in his career.
Nevada leads the all-time series 19-12. Nevada went 2-0 vs CSU in the regular season, including winning on a Jarod Lucas half-court shot at the buzzer in Fort Collins late in the season.
The game will be at the Thomas & Mack Center on UNLV’s campus, the site of the Mountain West tournament. Thomas & Mack has a capacity of 18,000. Tickets are available at TheMW.com/mbballchamp/#tickets.
CSU is No. 36 in the NCAA’s NET rankings and Nevada is No. 31. It’s a Quad 1 game for both teams.
CSU is No. 38 in KenPom and Nevada is No. 35. KenPom projects a one-point win for Nevada.
Here are some players who will be key to the game for each team:
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A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Contact Alex Wright at awright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AlexWright1028 on X.
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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