The Mountain West basketball tournament could offer several surprising results after a close race during the regular season.
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The once-proud program has now gone a decade without qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
UNLV quarterback Doug Brumfield has many of the same traits as the greatest Rebel of them all: Randall Cunningham.
The Thomas Mack Center felt just like Laramie, minus about 5,000 feet of elevation. Hosting the MW Tournament isn’t any sort of home-court advantage for UNLV. Hasn’t been for some time.
UNLV, which struggled to defend the 3-point line most of the season, held Air Force to 0 of 9 in the first half and 2 of 18 overall on 3s in Wednesday’s blowout.
Three-sport high school star Giancarlo Stanton was recruited heavily by the Rebels when Mike Sanford was the football coach before switching his focus to baseball.
There is little chance UNLV athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois would turn down UCLA, despite the fact that its insides are a lot more challenging than the shiny exterior.