UNLV’s basketball team had to play like San Diego State to beat San Diego State on Tuesday night, matching the No. 21-ranked Aztecs’ toughness and physical play.
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Desi-Rae Young was the only DI player in the nation to average 18-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and shoot better than 60 percent. And she wasn’t named conference Player of the Year — a certain mistake.
The UNLV men’s basketball team opens a second season under coach Kevin Kruger against Southern on Monday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
This is about the journey, and how ridiculously difficult it is, and how hard it has been for UNLV players of late to not only navigate, but reach its summit and stick in the league.
After falling to Utah State 85-78 on Saturday, UNLV is 1-2 in Mountain West play and has dropped both conference games at the Thomas Mack Center.
It’s OK to accelerate tempo in basketball when you’re the one creating pace. UNLV wasn’t Wednesday night. For it, the Rebels eventually cracked under pressure.
If you snapped a picture outside, it would have been one of ice. Of snow. Of slush. Of the sort of air that burns your lungs with each inhale. Of the biting cold Robert Frost wrote about so brilliantly.
I was looking for Lewis Skolnick at one guard spot and Dudley “Booger” Dawson at small forward. But it wasn’t Adams College that UNLV’s basketball team welcomed Tuesday night. It was Adams State. The Rebels might have preferred a group of nerdy Tri-Lambs.
UNLV’s basketball team will take its 68-64 victory against Boise State on Tuesday night and not apologize.
