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Friday, March 9, 2007 | 7:04 a.m.
Just to see what might happen when 200-mph race cars collide with 200-proof college basketball fans from Wyoming, Las Vegas is hosting both this weekend, with the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament rocking the Thomas & Mack Center and NASCAR's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 rolling into Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Or, as I like to call it, where the rubber meets the road to a No. 9 seed in the West regional.
But taking this ultimate test of man - have you seen the guns on UNLV's Joel Anthony? - and machine a step further, what would happen if the coaches and drivers traded places during the weekend, sort of like Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in the movies?
Well, the bracket and starting grid might look something like .
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