Completed Event: Men's Basketball versus No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round) on March 10, 2026 , Loss , 66, to, 73
Final Score
Men's Basketball
66
vs No. 9-Seed Cincinnati (1st Round)
73
The University of Utah Athletics
Salt Lake City Subregional Notes
3/16/2000 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 16, 2000
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 16th-seeded team has never upset a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament. Jackson State coach Andy Stoglin clings to the realization that it will happen eventually.
"It will happen because parity is here in basketball," he said, citing the number of players who leave college early for the NBA draft and deprive teams of experience.
"That's why this year there is no dominant team," he said. "There are a lot of very good teams, but there's no Dukes of the past, like those teams that dominated before."
The 16th-seeded Tigers play Arizona, the West's No. 1 seed, today.
Jackson State's entire team showed up for Wednesday's news conference, easily outnumbering the handful of media present.
"I kind of expect it to be like that. It's us against the world, and that's the kind of attitude we take," said Stoglin, a former Harlem Globetrotters player.
"The thing that would drive me to really want to play well and to have a chance to beat a top seed and make a statement is because people don't give our conference any credit," he said.
The Tigers earned the Southwestern Athletic Conference's automatic bid by winning the league tournament. Their only other appearance in the NCAA tournament came in a first-round loss to Kansas in 1997.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Jerry Tarkanian tried to talk his son, Danny, out of becoming a basketball coach.
Too late. Danny is in his fifth season as an assistant to his father at Fresno State. He also played for his father and was an assistant under him at UNLV.
In between stints as a coach, Danny worked as an attorney for seven years in Las Vegas.
"He graduated from law school magna cum laude. I just thought he's too smart to be a coach," the elder Tarkanian said.
But since his son wants to follow in his footsteps, Tarkanian believes Danny should learn from the best. That's why Danny spent time with Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett in Madison last summer.
"It was great for him to get to understand how other coaches do things," Jerry said. "I really want him to do the same thing with (Cincinnati's) Bobby Huggins. I want him to do that with a lot of my friends that are in the coaching profession."
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Jackson State's Marino Walker isn't the only member of his family to make the NCAA tournament.
Walker's mother, Shirley, is the coach of the Alcorn State women's team, which plays Louisiana Tech on Saturday in a first-round game in Ruston, La.
Lonnie Walker, the former men's coach at Alcorn State who also coached his son in high school, came to Salt Lake City to see the Tigers play Arizona.
OH, THE INJUSTICE: Lute Olson has seen a lot in his 27 years of coaching.But he really got mad when Arizona guard Jason Gardner wasn't named Pac-10 freshman of the year.
Stanford's Casey Jacobsen and UCLA's Jason Kapono shared the honor.
"It was one of the biggest shocks that I've ever endured as a coach to see
Jason Gardner not even a tri-freshman of the year in the league," Olson said.
"I know that all nine of my coaching fraternity in the league are extremely intelligent, but for a while I questioned their intelligence with that."
Gardner became the first Arizona freshman to be named to the All-Pac-10 first team. He also was chosen freshman of the year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and Basketball Times.
"I'm sure it concerned me more than it did him," Olson said of the snub.
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