Four years ago, two college basketball players from major programs decided to transfer. Each was recruited by UNLV and San Diego State.
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Youth is out the window now. Youth doesn’t dictate effort. First-graders can play hard all the time if they want, or at least if there is a special treat at snack time for those who look engaged. Chris Wood should take notice.
This was one of those double-scoop weeks for UNLV’s basketball team. Or should have been.
UNLV lost to UNR in basketball again on Wednesday night, and that was a bad thing if you were Rebels coach Dave Rice, who takes a ration of grief — or something like it — whenever the Rebels stub a toe against the lesser squads of the Mountain West Conference.
The tradition is everywhere. They pack those red and blue bleachers shoulder to shoulder. They sway like a wheat field in the breeze.
Bill Self talks about the ceiling and how every college basketball coach understands where that surface exists for his team each season, that it’s his job to lift players as close to it as possible.