UNR rolls into Wednesday’s rivalry game against UNLV at the Thomas & Mack Center with some rare momentum. The Wolf Pack swept the two-game intrastate series last season to stop an eight-game losing streak to the Rebels.
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The 15-year-old daughter of longtime Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has died after a long illness, the team said in a statement.
New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, who missed his second straight game due to knee soreness, could sit out all week and miss the next four games.
The tradition is everywhere. They pack those red and blue bleachers shoulder to shoulder. They sway like a wheat field in the breeze.
A driving layup by Cody Doolin put UNLV in front and in position to pull off an upset. But that’s also when the fantasy faded and reality hit.
If there is to be a true positive taken from Sunday’s 76-61 loss at Kansas, it would be that senior point guard Cody Doolin was really, really good in a very tough environment.
Frank Mason III scored 18 points as 13th-ranked Kansas pulled away late for a 76-61 victory over UNLV at Allen Fieldhouse.
The Rebels travel to Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence to face 13th-ranked Kansas today. Tip is at 1:30 p.m.
UNLV has endured perhaps the most difficult stretch of schedule in the program’s history over the last two weeks. Now comes perhaps the toughest game of them all.
Echoes bounced off the walls of the empty arena, soon to be filled and loud. UNLV freshman Rashad Vaughn stood in one of college basketball’s most historic places and confidently predicted there will be no sense of intimidation.
One look at the Pac-12 basketball landscape shows just how good Southern Nevada’s prep hoops scene is. Talented players with ties to Las Vegas litter the rosters of the teams contending in the Pac-12 this season. Here are a few of them:
Bill Self talks about the ceiling and how every college basketball coach understands where that surface exists for his team each season, that it’s his job to lift players as close to it as possible.
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James will be sidelined for two weeks with left knee and lower back strains, the team announced Thursday.
A crowd of 6,011 witnessed a New Year’s Eve thriller as Wyoming senior Larry Nance Jr. traded shots with UNLV sophomore Chris Wood and pushed Wyoming to a 76-71 in a Mountain West opener at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie.
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