When the number of Mountain West games is 18 and your program hasn’t won a regular-season league championship in forever, any mark on the left side of a win-loss column is cherished inside a locker room.
Basketball
That was not the way UNLV wanted to start Mountain West play.
A long 3-point try by Jerome Seagears fell short at the buzzer, and one game into the Mountain West season, UNLV already is in a situation of desperation.
The Rebels are 7.5-point favorites when they open conference play at the Thomas & Mack tonight against Fresno State.
After 11 educational non-conference games, the UNLV Lady Rebels close out a month-long, six-game road trip at Fresno State on Wednesday, in both teams’ Mountain West Conference opener.
When in doubt — and doubt surrounds most of the basketball teams in the Mountain West at the moment — it would be easy to side with Steve Fisher. He gets the job done at San Diego State year after year.
The curtain is set to be raised on the 18-game Mountain West schedule. Here’s the predicted order of finish:
The quote goes like this: Seize the moment, because some opportunities don’t come twice.
With the Mountain West men’s basketball conference play beginning Wednesday, the Review-Journal peeked into the MW writers’ notes exchange network and looked at how beat writers around the league evaluate the teams they cover.
Wearing a blue jersey, Daquan Cook ran the offense for the scout team in Monday’s practice. When it’s game time, the junior point guard finally will be back in a UNLV uniform.
The Mountain West Conference has reprimanded Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt for his statements about the league’s decision to limit the conference tournament to eight teams rather than 11 as it has invited in the past.
Our annual version of the top 10 year-end local sports stories as 2015 comes to a close …
UNLV will host Southern Illinois on Dec. 19, 2016, in the next Mountain West/Missouri Valley Conference Challenge.
Jalen Poyser scored 18 points and Ike Nwamu had 16 as the Rebels wrapped up their nonconference season by rolling to a 103-68 victory over South Dakota at the Thomas & Mack Center.
After dropping consecutive games to Pac-12 teams, UNLV took full advantage of a step down in competition on Tuesday night.
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