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’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.
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.
The commitment of Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. and signings of veteran transfers have given the Rebels a real opportunity to play with the best in the Mountain West.
UNLV basketball coach Kevin Kruger watched from the front row at NRG Stadium in Houston as San Diego State beat Florida Atlantic in the Final Four on Saturday.
The Final Four is a time for tall people to tell even taller tales about the past, including Bill Walton’s gem detailing Jerry Tarkanian’s efforts to keep him from UCLA.
UNLV is intent on erasing last year’s NCAA Tournament first-round loss when the 11th-seeded Lady Rebels play sixth-seeded Michigan on Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The once-proud program has now gone a decade without qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
There certainly is merit in the heart UNLV showed Thursday under coach Kevin Kruger despite the unforgiving outcome that sabotaged an exhilarating comeback.
The No. 21 Lady Rebels have become a mid-major power under coach Lindy La Rocque and should remain one so long as she stands on their sideline.