LAS VEGAS – When the Nevada basketball team gathered for its first team meeting last offseason, one of the seemingly trivial tasks was to set the four-digit code on the door the opened its locker room.
But the Wolf Pack didn’t select some insignificant number. It selected 0316#, as in March 16, 2017, the date of first wave of games in the NCAA Tournament, a day it has been planning on playing since the summer.
After Nevada disposed of Colorado State, 79-71, in the Mountain West Tournament championship game Saturday at Thomas & Mack Center, the Wolf Pack won’t have to sweat out Sunday's selection show, which begins at 2:30 p.