The story behind why Derrick Jones Jr. wears No. 1 can be found on Page 43 of your trusty UNLV basketball media guide. It’s simple reasoning, not some profound wisdom that has a long and intense and complex story behind it.
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The question everyone wanted answered went unanswered at UNLV’s press conference on Thursday afternoon. And that was disappointing.
A movie once was made on the idea that a mirror has two faces, that the relationship between mind and body can take different forms, that what we see on the outside might not necessarily be a person’s true character.
The talent keeps coming for UNLV basketball, keeps believing in the vision Dave Rice has created, keeps talking about a style of play that if the Rebels ever get around to implementing, just might produce the sort of success a third-year coaching staff insists is attainable.
Before Tuesday, the last time I saw David Hollis, who played defensive back for UNLV in the 1984 California Bowl, was 1994. He still was known as “Hot Dog” Hollis then.
It was a quarter of six Sunday, and the roar of the engines still was reverberating between my ears at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when I received a four-word alert that made my head spin some more.
Dave Rice wasn’t joking Wednesday night. He stood outside the visitor’s locker room in Albuquerque, dejected about with his basketball team’s five-point loss to New Mexico moments earlier, and looked to the future.
