UNLV used a 29-6 run over a 7:21 span in the first half to take a commanding 43-24 lead as the Lady Rebels defeated Dixie State 100-67 in the team’s lone exhibition game Monday at Cox Pavilion.
Basketball
Senior guard Norman Powell led UCLA to a lopsided win in a closed scrimmage Saturday, teaching UNLV’s freshmen a lesson in the process.
A basketball rivalry could be re-emerging on the West Coast, due mostly to Steve Alford being in his second season at UCLA.
With at least a 4-inch height advantage over the tallest player on the opposing team, UNLV sophomore Chris Wood could have been expected to dominate, and the 6-foot-11-inch forward did exactly that.
What the Rebels encountered Wednesday — a 100-65 victory against an outfit named Florida National before a heavily inflated announced gathering of 10,253 at the Thomas & Mack Center — was an exhibition is every sense of the word.
A self-described “mama’s boy,” Jordan Cornish is no pushover for anyone else. He is a product of inner-city New Orleans, where the streets imprinted a mean streak in his personality.
Minnesota Timberwolves guard Kevin Martin was fined $15,000 on Monday for making an obscene gesture during the 106-105 loss to the Chicago Bulls.
Lauren Hill, freshman forward for Division III Mount St. Joseph’s made an uncontested left-handed layup for the opening basket of Sunday’s 66-55 victory over Hiram College.
Indiana University sophomore forward Devin Davis is improving after being struck by a teammate’s car and suffering a head injury, the school said Sunday.
On a UNLV basketball team with five true freshmen, Chris Wood qualifies as a veteran. He is definitely playing the part of a more experienced leader on the floor, in contrast to last season.
UNLV’s recruiting class, ranked among the nation’s top five in college basketball, started with Dwayne Morgan. The 6-foot-8-inch forward from Baltimore committed in March 2013, when he had no idea who would follow.
Kentucky was the runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 released Friday, becoming the fourth program to earn the honor in consecutive seasons.
The groundbreaking for Jackie Robinson’s $1.4 billion arena and hotel project on the Strip on Wednesday fueled talk that the National Basketball Association will have a team in Las Vegas one day.
Rookie forward Julius Randle broke the tibia bone in his right leg during the fourth quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ season-opening, 108-90 loss to the Houston Rockets and underwent surgery on Wednesday to repair the fracture.
Charlotte Hornets forward Jeffery Taylor pleaded guilty on Wednesday to misdemeanor domestic assault in connection with his arrest in September at a Michigan hotel, a county prosecutor’s office said.