Somewhere, in the bowels of UNLV athletics, where marketing slogans are annually bantered about, I’m certain they are toying with some gems for the 2013-14 basketball season.
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Quintrell Thomas accepted long ago that this is the hand college basketball has dealt him, perhaps not the royal flush he imagined coming out of high school as one of the nation’s top 20 players, but one that hasn’t busted him just yet.
Can all the demons be exorcised in three minutes, 43 seconds? Can all the nights when UNLV’s basketball team wasn’t tough or resilient enough disappear in that short amount of time? For now, for today, definitely.
It was two years ago, and San Diego State’s basketball team was in the midst of its best season in school history, a campaign that would end in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament and with a record of 34-3.
Dave Rice wasn’t joking Wednesday night. He stood outside the visitor’s locker room in Albuquerque, dejected about with his basketball team’s five-point loss to New Mexico moments earlier, and looked to the future.
It’s like watching a television rerun, where you know how things will end, but you sit through the entire show anyway. That’s what UNLV basketball has become on the road against quality opponents.
Realism. Mystery. Depth. Suspense. Strong characters. They all are traits of a terrific horror movie. They also define what many believe will be the best and most competitive Mountain West basketball season in history.