It started its basketball season a tad rocky, but Colorado is rolling right now. The Buffaloes have won 11 straight after Tuesday’s 71-70 win over Penn State in the semifinals of the Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic at Orleans Arena.
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Jalen Poyser scored 18 points and Ike Nwamu had 16 as the Rebels wrapped up their nonconference season by rolling to a 103-68 victory over South Dakota at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The cheers began when he first became visible from a tunnel at Orleans Arena. They stood and clapped and chanted his name and held signs in his honor because, well, it’s true everybody loves a winner. No matter the cost.
After dropping consecutive games to Pac-12 teams, UNLV took full advantage of a step down in competition on Tuesday night.
The Rebels are 13-point favorites when they host South Dakota at the Thomas & Mack tonight.
An illness sapped his strength in Hawaii. Stephen Zimmerman Jr. returned home and injured his right ankle. It was a bad week, followed by more bad luck.
The locker room door had swung open and Larry Brown walked through it, a free man.
It was Friday afternoon at the South Point, and the women’s basketball team from Stonehill College was playing Tarleton State in the annual Division II holiday tournament. That was one way to look at it.
If you’re a basketball player who wants to play collegiately in the New York metropolitan area, you’ve got plenty of choices.
It was following a game at the Maui Invitational in November when UCLA basketball coach Steve Alford, his team having just lost to Wake Forest, spoke about the Bruins being assessed 28 fouls.
The UNLV men’s basketball team finally utilized its speed and athleticism, but not by choice.
A thigh injury forced 7-foot freshman Stephen Zimmerman Jr. to limp off the floor early in the game, and by all appearances it was going to be a long night for UNLV.
Wyoming not only lost its superstar in swingman Larry Nance Jr., it lost five seniors from a team that went to the top of the Mountain West, winning the conference tournament, earning the school’s first NCAA Tounament bid since 2002 and going 25-10.
The Rebels are 11-point underdogs when they face No. 12 Arizona tonight at the McKale Center.
It all made sense before Wednesday, how this week might play out for UNLV’s basketball team, how important it could prove in regards to the postseason, how a winnable game against Arizona State would be followed by an extremely difficult one at Arizona.
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