Some of the quickness and speed Deville Smith displays on the basketball court tends to go missing when it’s time for him to catch the team bus or attend practice.
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Up. Down. Right. Left. Fast. Slow. Twist. Turn. So goes the roller-coaster of a basketball team UNLV has proven itself to be time and again this season.
New Mexico didn’t need guard Kendall Williams to play great to beat UNLV on Wednesday night. The Lobos just needed him to play like a senior and lead the team.
Kendall Williams made four 3-pointers and scored 29 points as New Mexico led the entire way en route to a 68-56 victory over UNLV in a Mountain West mismatch Wednesday night.
No fighting words, even if unintentional, were fired from the New Mexico side this time. And on the UNLV side, junior guard Bryce Dejean-Jones made sure to say all the right things.
A bear of a man, Stew Morrill is not big on reminiscing or getting sentimental. At least, that was the case Friday, when he shrugged off the idea of hitting a coaching milestone.
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.
The plan was simple for Wyoming on Saturday night: Don’t suffer an early knockout by UNLV.
As strange as it might seem, Larry Nance Jr. fell for Laramie, Wyo., and its lack of sights and sounds, at first sight. He immediately knew where he wanted to attend college and play basketball.
If you snapped a picture outside, it would have been one of ice. Of snow. Of slush. Of the sort of air that burns your lungs with each inhale. Of the biting cold Robert Frost wrote about so brilliantly.