Utah State coach Stew Morrill will finally get his wish.
The Western Athletic Conference is taking its basketball tournaments to a neutral site in Las Vegas at the Orleans, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Morrill has long been a proponent of playing the conference tournament either at a neutral site or, like the Big Sky Conference where he got his coaching start, on the home court of the No. 1 seed.
No. 1 seed Utah State had to defeat Nevada on its home court last season to earn an automatic berth to the NCAA tourney. Nevada will also host the 2010 tourney before it moves to Vegas in 21.
WAC commissioner Karl Benson has discussed the possibility of moving the tourney to the Orleans in the past. The West Coast Conference currently plays its conference tourney at the site.
The WAC has announced a press conference for Wednesday with a “major announcement.”
