Las Vegas • Fox Sports 1 analyst Steve Lavin has lived life as a coach of a bubble team from a major conference. Lavin, part of the broadcast team calling the Utes’ opening game of the Pac-12 Tournament against Oregon on Thursday night, has been in a situation similar to the one the Utes walked into this week.
Lavin, the former UCLA and St. John’s coach, led a St. John’s team to a 20-win season and a third-place finish in the Big East in the 2013-14 season. That team went into its conference tournament knowing it needed to make a run in order to secure an NCAA Tournament berth.