March Madness gets messy! UConn ‘is forced to switch hotels in Las Vegas after players find their rooms covered in VOMIT and dirt ahead of Sweet 16 game against Arkansas’
UConn’s men’s basketball team was forced to switch hotel rooms in Las Vegas ahead of their March Madness clash with Arkansas this week after finding their rooms in appalling condition.
The Huskies play the eighth-seeded Razorbacks Thursday night as they look to book their spot in the Elite Eight tonight but their preparation was disturbed earlier this week as they had to change hotels.
The team arrived at its accommodation Tuesday night only to find several of its hotel rooms in awful conditions, according to CT Insider’s David Borges.
The rooms reportedly were covered in vomit, dirt and ‘worse’, and had been left looking like ‘the boys of the Hangover had been there the night before.’
The Huskies are said to have been booked in at the Luxor Hotel by the NCAA, that arranges accommodation for all teams competing in the March Madness tournament on the road.
UConn’s men’s basketball team faces Arkansas in the Sweet 16 of March Madness Thursday
The team reportedly had to change hotels after their rooms at the Luxor were covered in vomit
The school reportedly notified the NCAA and were moved to a nearby, high-level hotel.
‘It’s not something we want to make a big deal out of,’ athletic director David Benedict said. ‘Everything worked out fine.’
DailyMail.com has contacted MGM Resorts, which operates the Luxor and many other Las Vegas hotels, for comment.
Las Vegas offers plenty of other distractions that could put a spanner in coach Benedict’s game plan but it seems the Huskies are behaving.
The players and staff reportedly went out for a team dinner Tuesday night but don’t seem to have had any other extravagant plans ahead of Thursday night’s Sweet 16 showdown.
UConn’s game against Arkansas is slated to tip off at 7.15pm ET at T-Mobile Arena and the winner will progress to the Elite Eight to face the victor of UCLA vs. Gonzaga.
UConn’s game against Arkansas is slated to tip off at 7.15pm ET at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
The Huskies reached the Sweet 16 thanks to back-to-back double-digit wins over No. 13 Iona and No. 5 St. Mary’s in the first two rounds of the tournament.
It is the first time UConn has advanced to the Sweet 16 since winning the National Championship in 2014.
‘Playing at UConn, it’s just you deal with a lot more pressure and criticism and like immediate meltdowns on social when you lose,’ head coach Dan Hurley said via ESPN after Sunday’s win over St. Mary’s.
‘I think in the first and even second round of tournaments, it’s more of a burden to play at UConn than it is an advantage. … Obviously, now you get to the Sweet 16, you can really just kind of go out and just let it rip.’