UNLV women’s basketball team has won two straight Mountain West titles but is hungry for a third as conference play begins Saturday.
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UNLV freshman quarterback Jayden Maiava capped his season with two straight games of growing pains, including those he experienced Tuesday in a loss to Kansas.
Win or lose against Kansas on Tuesday in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, UNLV has recalibrated its standing in college football under first-year coach Barry Odom.
UNLV’s basketball team played by far its best game of the Kevin Kruger Era on Wednesday night, routing No. 8 Creighton at the Dollar Loan Center.
The Rebels looked very much the part of a team playing in its first Mountain West championship game, falling to Boise State on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium.
Sharp bettors backed the 49ers at the SuperBook when the line opened at pick’em against the Eagles after Philadelphia rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat Buffalo.
Jackson Woodard followed coach Barry Odom from Arkansas to Las Vegas, and the junior has responded with a team-leading 104 tackles for the 9-3 Rebels.
UNLV junior Ricky White deserves to be one of the nine All-American wideouts this season, fitting in rightfully alongside big names from elite programs.
Broadcaster Matt Neverett got some vindication with UNLV clinching a share of the Mountain West football title months after facing ridicule and mockery.
UNLV lost to San Jose State on Saturday, but still managed the program’s most wins since 1984. And the Rebels will likely still play in the Mountain West title game.
Ranked sixth nationally, UNLV’s special teams units have had as much to do with the 9-2 start as any facet of the Rebels’ game. UNLV hosts San Jose State on Saturday.
Far from perfect, UNLV’s football team overcame a 24-7 deficit Saturday to defeat Air Force and climb within one victory of playing for a conference title.
Apparently breaking an NFL record isn’t enough to earn recognition from the league as one of the players of the week. Also, catching up with a former UNLV great.
It was an egregious, reprehensible, deplorable, humiliating, inconceivable, embarrassing loss for UNLV’s once-proud men’s basketball program. But it’s only one loss.