The promoter of three college basketball tournaments originally slated for a Las Vegas casino hotel — including one involving the University of Cincinnati — has moved the games to a high school.

        Pending NCAA approval, the tournaments will shift from the Paris Hotel and Casino to Valley High School, promoter Chris Spencer, director of Worldwide Basketball in Cincinnati, told the Journal and Courier of Lafayette.

        The Bearcats will play in the eight-team Las Vegas Holiday Classic Dec.20-22. First-round games will be played at campus sites. The Bearcats open against Richmond Dec.17 at Shoemaker Center and then play the remainder of the games in Las Vegas.

        The new venue has a college-length playing floor and is at least three miles from most casinos.

        “The Valley High School facility is better than the American University venue we used for several years in Puerto Rico, and it doesn't have slot machines,” Spencer said.

        The sudden relocations came after NCAA president Cedric Dempsey said last month teams were “wrong” for participating in tournaments at gambling casinos.

Wyoming star Hall now a Bearcat Las Vegas tourneys shift to high school

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