When it comes to identifying UNLV’s next head basketball coach, those investigating potential candidates should consider a theme based on a series of children’s books.
Basketball
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.
Grading the Rebels after a 100-64 victory against Air Force on Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Rebels are 15 1/2-point favorites when they host Air Force at the Thomas & Mack tonight.
Robert Smith is the guy you hear on the radio during UNLV basketball games, the one his university should be ashamed of because it still hasn’t retired and hung his jersey in the rafters of the Thomas & Mack Center, the best point guard in Rebels history.
Unlike most go-to scorers, UNLV sophomore Patrick McCaw prefers a quiet life. Celebrating after big plays is not his style. He never cares to attract attention or see his name in headlines.
No one has asked to be released from his scholarship, but UNLV’s four signees are paying attention to what’s happening regarding the Rebels’ coaching situation.
The National Basketball Association is considering playing a regular season game in Paris after receiving a proposal from Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), Commissioner Adam Silver said on Thursday.
A coaching change led to an attitude adjustment for a new-look UNLV basketball team, and 7-foot freshman Stephen Zimmerman Jr. defined the difference by playing with more aggression than he had all season.
Two days after their coach was fired midway through his fourth season, having lost six of their previous eight games and sitting at 0-3 to begin Mountain West play, UNLV basketball players were implored by their new leader to run.
Whatever the message was that Todd Simon sent to his UNLV basketball team, it was received loud and clear.
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