Donnie Tillman and Mbacke Diong post 17 points and seven rebounds apiece, and Rebels coast to an 81-69 victory.
Basketball
The 6-foot-3-inch guard, who is playing in the G League Winter Showcase at Mandalay Bay, is averaging 21.8 points, 9.5 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 3.2 steals in 16 games with South Bay.
The G League Showcase returns for the second straight year, with games at the Mandalay Bay Events Center from Thursday through Sunday. All 28 teams are participating again.
Greg Suckow, a fan known in Iowa as “Hawkeye Elvis,” made the trip to watch his beloved Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Continental Tires Las Vegas Invitational.
Contesting Division I basketball games at a high school is an abnormality. But the event’s senior director, Jon Albaugh, said he sought to provide the mid-major participants a more intimate experience at a smaller venue.
Banks, a 6-foot-2-inch point guard, returned to his hometown to play in the MGM Resorts Main Event, and started for the Cowboys on Sunday in a 56-41 loss to No. 23 Colorado.
UNLV isn’t the only college basketball team playing in Las Vegas this week. The city is welcoming several events across a plethora of venues before and after Thanksgiving.
Trevor La Porte, 24, got a tattoo of Dearica Hamby’s field-goal attempt on the outside of his left leg.
Shaquille O’Neal, on a Las Vegas stop as DJ Diesel, talks about his affinity for music and his work as a DJ and MC who worked with recording artists like the Notorious B.I.G., Nas and Jay-Z.
Young is set to represent USA Basketball’s three-on-three women’s basketball team from October 13 to 16 in the World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar, the organization announced earlier this week.
Aces center Liz Cambage was selected to the All-WNBA second team, the league announced Sunday afternoon.
The Aces finished the regular season 21-13 and are expected to bring back the core that helped them become one of the WNBA’s best teams.
Dearica Hamby missed a potential game-tying corner 3-pointer Tuesday night, and the Aces fell 94-90 to the Washington Mystics in Game 4 of the WNBA semifinals.
McBride has returned to All-Star form during the postseason, averaging 15.5 points on 51.4 percent shooting, including 50 percent 3-point shooting.
Liz Cambage and A’ja Wilson asserted their will early and often, combining to score 14 of their team’s first 16 points, and battered smaller opposing defenders.