Five takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 79-74 loss at Air Force on Tuesday.
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Patrick McCaw and Jalen Poyser each scored 15 points to lead UNLV, but the Falcons made the plays down the stretch to beat the Rebels 79-74 at Clune Arena.
UNLV lost a basketball game to Air Force on Tuesday night by a final score of 79-74. The problem: For much of it, the Rebels played as if it was 100-64 all over again.
Five takeaways from UNLV’s 100-64 victory over Air Force’s basketball team on Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center:
Nikki Wheatley had 17 points and eight rebounds to help UNLV hold on for a 60-56 win over Air Force in a Mountain West women’s basketball game Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The lead had climbed to 21 with about seven minutes remaining in the first half against Southern Utah, I mean South Dakota, I mean Air Force, I mean one of the worst Air Force sides in recent memory, and the energy in the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday night continued to rise as it has few times this UNLV basketball season.
It might be fantasy, but now is the time for that. This is the beginning stage of a search for the next UNLV basketball coach, a search expected to extend at least two more months, and the right answer when it ends could be Rick Pitino.
A week ago, senior guard Jerome Seagears said, UNLV hit “rock bottom.” A three-game losing streak and a coaching change put the team at its lowest point.
Tra Holder scored 19 points and Arizona State erased a 14-point second-half deficit to upset UNLV 66-56 at the Thomas & Mack Center.
I suppose the best thing that could have happened for UNLV’s basketball team Wednesday night would have been for no one to discover those AAA batteries and duct tape needed to fix the shot clocks at Thomas & Mack Center because when you spend nearly $50 million on renovations, it must be tough making sure all the lights work.
Some might question why the UNLV men’s basketball team received F’s across the board since it had a 12-point lead at the half before falling to Arizona State 66-56 at the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday.
Diet pills that work miracles are advertised on TV every day. Over the summer, Jordan Cornish formed a plan to lose weight the old-fashioned way. He worked out. He ate right. A few weeks after his freshman season at UNLV, Cornish tipped the scales at 240 pounds. Now, he’s a trimmer 220.
Jelan Kendrick on Saturday walked in a procession far more important than any half-court set he has been part of, graduating from UNLV with a degree in sociology. His journey to the reality of a cap and gown, more than anything else, is best described as complex.
While UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice has yet to prove March as a month that can define his program as either successful or relevant, he has this recruiting thing going like nobody’s business. He’s no April fool.
Jerry Tarkanian coached the Rebels to the NCAA championship in 1990, before any of the team’s current players were born. But they will get a chance to play for Tarkanian Wednesday night.
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