Five takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 67-52 loss on Saturday to San Diego State at the Thomas & Mack Center:
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There was little mystery as to what was going to decide Saturday night’s outcome. UNLV had to get its transition offense going and do all it could to keep San Diego State from turning the game into a half-court scrum.
They began filing out of the Thomas & Mack Center with 4:21 remaining, apparently having seen enough of the clinic San Diego State’s basketball team gave to UNLV on Saturday night.
The UNLV men’s basketball team (13-9, 4-5 Mountain West) has become predictable. When the game slows down, the outcome never goes well for the Rebels. San Diego State (16-6, 9-0 MW) killed clock, played stifling defense and left the Thomas & Mack Center with a 67-52 victory on Saturday.
A domed stadium proposed for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas football team has a price tag of $1.2 billion, and developers would seek $780 million in public financing, according to a document provided by Las Vegas Sands Corp., which is leading a consortium behind the project.
Breaking down the UNLV basketball team’s game against San Diego State at 5 p.m. today at the Thomas & Mack Center:
The Rebels are 4-point favorites when they host San Diego State at the Thomas & Mack today.
Coming off a big win over Boise State Wednesday night, the UNLV Rebels return to the court tonight to host the San Diego State Aztecs at the Thomas & Mack Center.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume shovels will be placed in the ground at the $1 billion domed arena site on the edge of UNLV’s campus. And that the NFL rescinds its leather-helmet view of legal and highly monitored gambling on pro football.
The best rivalries develop organically, the circumstances creating an intense atmosphere between teams that can’t be fabricated or forced. That’s what makes the basketball series between UNLV and San Diego State so special.
This is no Iowa cornfield, and the only farming I have done lately is to roll a broken lawn mower out to the curb for a garage sale, but if you close your eyes and imagine what more than $1 billion might deliver Las Vegas in terms of a domed stadium, you just might see all that Ray Kinsella built and more.
A look at the top games in the UNLV-San Diego State rivalry
A day after UNLV landed its potential quarterback of the future in three-star recruit Armani Rogers, the Rebels added a potential future target for the 6-foot-5-inch signal caller Friday night in two-star wide receiver Mekhi Stevenson.
It was at this time last year in a ballroom at the Phoenix Convention Center when Roger Goodell was posed a familiar question at his annual state of the league address at the Super Bowl: Did the commissioner think Las Vegas could sustain an NFL team?
A few months removed from a wrenching 31-28 loss at Fresno State, UNLV won a recruiting battle with the Bulldogs for three-star quarterback Armani Rogers.
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