The team heads for Las Vegas to compete in a basketball game, but ends up competing—and losing—at the gaming tables instead. Las Vegas is indeed a town for gamblers as Coach Reeves' boys learn the hard way. They not only have problems with monetary wagers, but the squad encounters problems on the court in the tournament in which they've come to Vegas to play.

Reese, Carver High's star player, is pressured to quit school by his girlfriend, who says she's pregnant and desperate to get married.