[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 135]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           COLLEGE BASKETBALL

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, before my friend starts, the Republican 
leader and I deal with a lot of issues that come up in the Senate, and 
some of them are difficult. But the one thing we have that is kind of a 
diversion for us is we follow college athletics in our respective 
States. I have been very fortunate in Nevada that the University of 
Nevada has had a very good football team the last 5 or 6 or 7 years. I 
will not talk about the UNLV football item; it is not worth doing, as I 
told the university president.
  But we also have in Nevada--and this is always the way it is in 
Kentucky; they always have good basketball teams--we have been doing 
very well in recent years, especially at UNLV; and now what UNR has is, 
I believe, the longest winning record in Division I basketball. They 
have only lost three games. UNLV has only lost 3 games.
  So we have fun in our few minutes together talking about basketball. 
I have never seen a more avid fan of the University of Louisville. He, 
of course, follows the University of Kentucky, which is easy to follow, 
because their teams are always so good. But so is Louisville's team. 
And Louisville and UNLV have had, in recent years, some very tight 
basketball battles.
  So I want the Acting President pro tempore and everyone else to know 
Senator McConnell and I do, on occasion, divert from the business of 
the Senate.

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