A season-ending knee injury hasn’t dimmed Angel McCoughtry’s enthusiasm for basketball, the Aces or the 2021 WNBA season. Not publicly, anyway. She remains as jovial as ever.
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Lon Kruger, whose son Kevin was named UNLV’s coach earlier this week, plans to spend his retirement in Las Vegas.
San Diego State and Southern California are the favorites for the tournaments, scheduled for March 10 to 13. UNR is 18-1, and UNLV is 40-1.
UNLV will look to split a two-game series with Fresno State on Friday after blowing a late lead in a 67-64 loss on Wednesday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
It was one year ago — Jan. 26 — when not only the sports world was turned upside-down, but much of the nation.
Moses Wood blocked a last-second 3-point try, and UNLV held on for a 59-56 win over Utah State on Monday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNLV, an 11½-point favorite, was stunned by Montana State to begin coach T.J. Otzelberger’s second season. The Rebels trailed for almost 35 minutes of the game.
The UNLV women trailed by 17 points with 7:44 left Wednesday, then cut the deficit to two before losing 79-75 to Northern Arizona in Lindy La Rocque’s debut as coach.
The Aces held off a late charge from the Wings for a 96-92 win, their 10th in their past 11 games, and kept pace with Seattle for first place.
The Aces open their season Sunday against Chicago, and the league has implemented several directives in an effort to help bring about social change.
Jones, now a wing for the Miami Heat, is asymptomatic and expects to join the team when the NBA season resumes next month in Orlando, Florida, per the Miami Herald.
Aces coach Bill Laimbeer wanted to hire Tanisha Wright as an assistant coach when the franchise hired him in 2017, but she played two more WNBA seasons before retiring.
Angel McCoughtry returned to the United States from Russia last week and is patiently awaiting the beginning of the WNBA season while quarantined at her home in Atlanta.
UNLV has a proud basketball history of appearing in four Final Fours, including winning the 1990 national championship.
Story of former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who took the Rebels to unprecedented heights while battlling the NCAA and his administration, as told by his son, Danny.