Devin Tillis left UNLV after his freshman season, wanting to be closer to home and compete for NCAA Tournament bids. His return to Las Vegas didn’t go as planned Friday.
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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.
Tommy Lloyd, Arizona’s first-year coach, has a history of winning conference tournaments in Las Vegas and looks to keep it going in the Pac-12 event at T-Mobile Arena.
Senior Bryce Hamilton scored 22 points but it wasn’t enough as No. 5-seeded UNLV lost to No. 4 Wyoming Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Bey, a native Las Vegan and Bishop Gorman graduate, scored 18 points in a loss Wednesday to Utah in the Pac-12 tournament at T-Mobile Arena. He was one of the best 3-point shooters in the country this season.
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.
The Rebels played perhaps their most complete game of the season, rolling past Air Force on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center to advance to play Utah State.
Lew Hill, an assistant basketball coach at UNLV from 2004 to 2011, died in his sleep in February at age 55 after being diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disorder.
The UC Davis women’s basketball team had 13 games canceled because of the COVID-19 outbreak, but won the Big West Conference regular-season title for the fifth year in a row.
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