Las Vegas plays Spring Valley in the class 4A state semifinals at 5:20 p.m. today at Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus. Mojave and Cimarron-Memorial, at 8:40 p.m., are in the other semifinal. The championship game is 7:10 p.m. Saturday.
They won just six regular season games, took fourth in their league and were outscored by an average of 16 points per game. The Desert Pines High girls basketball team had the type of season you’d expect with a first-year coach and a starting lineup of three sophomores and a freshman. So how, exactly, did such a squad win a berth in this week’s Division I-A state tournament in Reno?