LAS VEGAS – Well, I guess a lot of coaches and players will have to find other things to do, post-midnight Saturday morning.
The NCAA didn’t sanction the Year III of the Pangos/Full-Court Press Midnight Madness, so the event’s CEO, Dingos Trigonis of Long Beach, improvised.
Instead of playing close to three hours worth of 20-minute “mini-games� involving some of the teams in town for the three national traveling team tournaments, from 12:01 a.m. on, the schedule was switched with games now set to begin Friday night at 9 o’clock.
LAS VEGAS – Well, I guess a lot of coaches and players will have to find other things to do, post-midnight Saturday morning.
The NCAA didn’t sanction the Year III of the Pangos/Full-Court Press Midnight Madness, so the event’s CEO, Dingos Trigonis of Long Beach, improvised.
Instead of playing close to three hours worth of 20-minute “mini-games� involving some of the teams in town for the three national traveling team tournaments, from 12:01 a.m. on, the schedule was switched with games now set to begin Friday night at 9 o’clock.
The lack of a sanction (Trigonis was rather nebulous about the reason, other than to say that some of the coaches of the teams that participated last year “put some false information on the forms� that were submitted to the NCAA in the sanctioning process) meant that college coaches couldn’t attend. It was to start at 12:01 a.m., since Saturday is the day the July evaluation period resumes for coaches at NCAA-affiliated schools.
The games will be played at the Jerry Tarkanian Basketball Academy and I’ll check out at least a couple of hours worth and report back here with any highlights.
Games at the Main Event (main gymnasium at Durango High), Big Time (Foothill) and Super 64 (Desert Pines) tournaments begin at either 8 or 9 a.m. Saturday.
The games that figure to draw the biggest crowds Saturday will be at Foothill, where the D-1 Greyhound (led by O.J. Mayo and Billy Walker) take on the Michigan Hurricane at 2:20, and the Southern California All-Stars (Kevin Love, Brandon Jennings, Taylor King, Malik Story and Daniel Hackett) face the Chicago-based Mean Streets Express at 3:40.
Rest easy: I’ll be there and give you my perspective. And don’t I always?
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