UNLV
Years: 1978 to 1980, Career highlights: Averaged 7.9 points and 7.1 assists in 1978-79, when the Rebels went 21-8.
An optimist would say UNLV junior Derrick Jasper received a positive injury report Wednesday. His basketball season is expected to continue. But he will miss approximately five weeks, after an MRI examination revealed a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
Angered by a last-minute loss to UNLV, Rick Pitino stormed off the Freedom Hall floor in frustration. If the Louisville coach had big plans for a New Year’s Eve party, they were spoiled.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV nearly let a big lead fritter away against Louisville. Oscar Bellfield scored 17 points, Tre’Von Willis added 16 and the Runnin’ Rebels held on for a 76-71 win over the No. 16 Cardinals today, a game the Mountain West upstarts led by 19 points in the second half.
A quick drive across town from his parents’ home, Anthony Marshall has settled in at UNLV. He sleeps in a dorm room on campus and, for now, has the normal life of a college freshman.
A late bloomer in high school, DeShawn Mitchell was viewed as a potential recruiting steal when he signed with UNLV.
Here comes the call from death again, being its ironic self. A fight had just broken out during the Wranglers playoff game Monday evening at the Orleans Arena when the news of Glen Gondrezick’s passing arrived.
If the spotlight is turned on, UNLV sophomore Tre’Von Willis is not about to run from it. He wants to be in the middle of it.
As much as Mike Montgomery likes golf, he discovered he had too much time to play. He missed working long hours.
Rested and no longer rubber-legged from its 19-hour trip two days earlier, UNLV’s men’s basketball team broke through with a 77-75 victory over the Illawarra Seahawks on Friday at Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.