Mountain West tournament begins; The GSR Arena takes the next step

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1. Nevada strives for a second MW tournament under Alford

The men's Nevada Männerbasketball team avoided a surprise in his MW tournament game in the first round with an 86:71 win against the state of Fresno on Wednesday. Now the wolf package aims to achieve a surprise. No. 7 Nevada will play the state of Colorado No. 2 on Thursday at 6 p.m. with a place in the semi -finals of the tournament. The wolf package only made the semi -finals once in the first five seasons of coach Steve Alford, which came in 2021 when the Wolf Pack lost to SDSU. Nevada has to win this year's tournament to make the big dance and depict the automatic berth of the MW three victories. During the regular season, the wolf package was swept by Colorado State, which entered the post-season with a winning streak with a winning streak in the post-season, with a NCAA tournament being shot from the outside in a long berth. That would require at least two victories at the tournament of this week. The RAMs are a 5.5-point favorite against Nevada, which is due to eight healthy scholarship players. Here are my three keys to victory and a prediction.

2. Nevadas Bailey Heydra ends a place where the NCAA lying areas were closed

Nevada Diver Bailey Heydra ended a place in the NCAA championships in the 1-meter springboard on Wednesday at the diving championships of Zone E at the NCAA championships. The Mountain West Champion in the event, Heydra, became ninth in the zone and pushed eighth place from Molly Brascia from UCLA on the second last dive of the competition. Heydra was 4.30 points to do the NCAAs because the top-eight divers in the zone qualified for the national championship. Heydra narrowly missed qualifying in the 3-meter ride and took 12th place. Apart from an injury that Heydra pushed into the field, the wolf package will not have a representative at the NCAA swimming and diving championships. The swimmer Scarlett Ferris qualified for the NCAAs at three events, but was scratched by an illness.

3. Wolf Pack Alum Daiyan Henley gets 900,000 US dollars bonus

The former football player of Nevada, Daiyan Henley, received a bonus of $ 892,651 in the performance-related wages of the NFL for the 2024 season. This pot of money is generally rewarded for younger players, boys with high productivity, but low salaries. In total, NFL players received more than $ 452 million in performance-based salaries in 2024, with Henley received the 12th, the greatest payout (Jets Linebacker Jamien Sherwood had first place with a bonus of $ 1,092,206). The athletics have a list of top 25 earners. Henley was a player for the Los Angeles Chargers this season this season and had 147 duels, which took eighth place in NFL. These were most duels for a Nevada alum in the NFL. In view of the last season last season, Henley only earned $ 996,383, he almost doubled his income from the performance-based salary bonus.

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