I remember hanging at the hotel in Fayeteville when £1 UNLV was in town to play the £2 Hogs, about 1990. Pandemonium. Greg Anthony was in a Jacuzzi with naked floozies and some guy they called "Jaime The Fixer".
Tarkanian comes into the open lobby/lounge with a posse of Vegas style goons and tacky dressed hangers on, grabs a nacho off my plate, nods and says "hi there" like he knew me. I asked what he planned to do about our full court trap, and he said "release on defense, every time".
Well, they didn't, first half, and were down by 8. Second half, they released, got every rebound and threw the long pass for a dunk to the release guy and rolled us.
Celebrities everywhere. We were hanging' with our main client, Don Tyson, and his guests. My future wife told Wayne Gretzy he was funny on the SNL episode, and asked if they were going to make him a full time cast member (didn't know who he was). Future wife left with Tyson, I (a 1L at the time) smartly gave my extra ticket to a hot little Korean girl, (who started off gameday morning by making me breakfast, first date, she answers door that morning in bra and panties
Anyway, Vanilla Ice sat at our table, wearing all Canes clothing, and so on. Good times.
Tarkanian was a character
Only better team hotel story was the Cotton Bowl earlier that year with Craig Erickson and the guys.