Selling kids on playing Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount is tougher than selling them on playing Washington and UCLA.Coach34 said:selling kids on playing Air Force and BYU is tougher than playing Texas and OU
As of 2009, UNLV is the fourth-winningest program by percentage (.712) in Division I history — ranking behind Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas, but ahead of UCLA, and Duke. UNLV is 33-16 all-time in the NCAA tournament with a .673 winning percentage. In July 2008, ESPNU named the program the eighth most prestigious collegiate basketball program in the nation since 1984
The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA. They are currently an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Mountain West Conference. The school has made the NCAA Tournament 26 times, which ranks 16th in NCAA history and 3rd behind UCLAand the University of Arizona in the Western United States. They last made the tournament in 2009. Utah won the NCAA Championship in 1944, defeating Dartmouth College 42–40 for the school's only basketball championship. They have also won the NIT once, defeating Kentucky in 1947.