Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 83-74 loss to Boise State on Saturday at the Thomas Mack Center.
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Boise State used a 20-2 run early in the second half to defeat UNLV’s basketball team 83-74 on Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Broncos also outrebounded UNLV 48-29.
Essence Booker scored 28 points and Ella Zanders drew a late charge to lift No. 3 Spring Valley to a 67-65 victory over No. 2 Liberty in the Gator Winter Classic platinum championship game on Saturday night.
Breaking down UNLV’s basketball game against Boise State at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNLV commit Justice Ethridge poured in a season-high 32 points Friday to power the Bulldogs to a 59-39 victory over Etiwanda (California) in the championship game of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic’s platinum bracket at Centennial.
UNLV’s basketball team opens Mountain West play against Boise State at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The outcome should be telling regarding how well the Rebels play in league action.
There should be no opponent as challenging as Stanford or Mississippi State or Syracuse when the Lady Rebels kick off conference play.
Cimarron-Memorial’s girls basketball team fell behind 18-3 early in the second quarter and couldn’t recover in its 54-45 loss to Spanish Springs in the Gator Winter Classic at Green Valley on Thursday.
Norman Freedman is 83 but vividly recalled details of a bad beat he suffered 40 years ago, when Earl “The Pearl” Monroe mysteriously turned his apparent $2,000 win into a $100 loss.
Green Valley finished 26.5 percent shooting from the field, including 1-for-11 in the third quarter, to allow visiting Beverly Hills (California) to pull away from a 21-all halftime score and claim a 52-39 victory in the Gator Winter Classic.
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UNLV forward Shakur Juiston has been named the Mountain West player of the week after averaging a double-double in a pair of victories over Mississippi Valley State and Northern Colorado.
Sophomore Noah Taitz hit five 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 26 points to lead Bishop Gorman to a 69-56 home victory over Clark in the Platinum Division championship of the Tarkanian Classic on Saturday.
Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 94-91 victory over Northern Colorado on Friday at the Thomas Mack Center.
UNLV came back from an eight-point deficit to defeat Northern Colorado 94-91 on Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center. Shakur Juiston had 30 points and 12 rebounds, and Jovan Mooring scored 25 points.
