It was good of UNLV’s basketball team to make the trip, to travel the 1,700 or so miles into the freezer box that is this city during the holidays, to show up at the Kohl Center on Saturday and offer 343 other Division I-A basketball teams a perfect blueprint of how not to have a prayer against Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — Ben Brust hit all seven of his 3-pointers and scored 25 points to lead 14th-ranked Wisconsin to a 62-51 victory over UNLV. Justin Hawkins’ 3-pointer from the corner pulled UNLV within 57-49 with 3:48 remaining. But Mike Moser missed a layup and then lost control of a defensive rebound before Brust buried his seventh 3 to seal the outcome. Chace Stanback scored 16 points and Carlos Lopez added nine for the Rebels (9-2). Moser, UNLV’s leading scorer and rebounder, went scoreless in the first half and finished with four points and 10 rebounds.
Elburt Miller, a star from the 1960s who is remembered as one of the greatest players in UNLV basketball history, died Dec. 4.
Junior guard Justin Hawkins scored 23 points to lead UNLV to a 94-50 victory over Cal State San Marcos at Orleans Arena.
In the near future, Jim Saia plans to put Cal State San Marcos on the college basketball map. But before he could start working on that, the veteran coach had to find it.
