Your boy Burney just got back from Las Vegas, reuniting with some of his crew from those epic IU Hoosiers days and wanted to drop a quick nugget of knowledge regarding a link between the 'D' and the Sin City cage scene.

Although there is not a direct tie to the OC itself, all you youngsters should know your local sports history.

Detroit born-and-bred baller Anderson Hunt was a key member of arguably the best college basketball team in NCAA history – at the very least when it was at the mountain top it could stake a legit claim to being the most electrifying squad of all-time.

I'm talking about the UNLV Running Rebels from the 1989-1990 campaign through 1990-1991 season.

With Hunt, an athletic jitterbug of an off-guard who displayed a hot-stroke beyond the arc and was a premiere finisher going to the rim, and current NBA broadcast gem Greg Anthony anchoring the backcourt, the Rebels went 69-6.

In 1990 they won the National Championship and Hunt busted out for 29 points, while snagging MVP honors in the title game against Duke, which was a total and utter throttling.

The next year they were in CRUSH MODE all season (34-0), until the NCAA title game when they got upset by that same Duke team to give Coach K his first crown.

These guys were absolute ROCK STARS, the Fab Five before the Fab Five – Michigan's vaunted 5-pack literally came along the following campaign.

Besides Hunt, UNLV sported a cage crew chalk-full of talent (future NBA lottery picks Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon) that was incredibly exciting to watch play – lots of fast-breaks and in-your-face defense, peppered in between head coach Jerry Tarkanian's clever "Ameba Defense," a strategy used to confuse opposing teams by constantly switching from man-to-man to zone. The Rebels' stifling defense created massive amounts of turnovers and transition opportunities, many of them capped by a flying Hunt jam or 3-point bomb.

Hunt was never drafted in the NBA – he made a critical mistake by deciding to leave college early before that was thing to do unless your name was Magic, MJ or Isaiah

After playing professionally in Europe and encountering some personal off-the-court issues, he has rebounded nicely and became an extremely successful real estate entrepreneur, much of his business being conducted in the Motor City.

In high school, Hunt was an all-state hoopster at Detroit Southwestern, shunning Michigan and Michigan St to instead head out West to the Strip and play for Tark the Shark.