The pain of March 30, 1991, will never completely go away.
UNLV’s 79-77 loss to Duke at the Final Four at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis remains one of the great upsets not only in the history of college basketball, but in all sports.
That loss, 25 years ago today, erased a season that saw the Rebels as the consensus No. 1 team in both the Associated Press and United Press International polls, a team that to that point was 34-0 and beat their opponents by an average of 26 points a game. It was a team that rolled through conference play 18-0 and won by an average of almost 30 points a game.