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There are different kinds of wins in sports. Ones when you outplay an opponent. Ones when you don’t and still succeed. Ones when you make your owns breaks. Ones when the other guys break down. UNLV’s basketball team had another kind Saturday. “This was a character win,” Rebels coach Dave Rice said.
It was as difficult and emotional a loss as you can imagine for UNLV’s basketball team. The Rebels played their hearts out for 45 minutes Saturday night and deserved a better fate.
Like the lunatic fan everyone despises but tolerates because the home team wins when he attends the party or the nutcase who retires to his basement to create more good luck for his favorite side, UNLV should immediately enroll in a local hotel’s rewards program.
He said it often the first month of this basketball season, said it after the 21-point home loss to UC Santa Barbara, after the close win against Nebraska-Omaha, after not getting it done against visiting Arizona State and Illinois, after playing tough but falling at Arizona.
Boise State is one of those basketball tonics that can cure the common cold, or in the case of UNLV, a midseason week to forget. The Broncos on the road are almost always a willing participant in a home team’s desire to right its recent wrongs.
A friend happened past shortly before UNLV met Cal Poly (Slow) in basketball Tuesday night and offered this assessment of the Rebels:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Messages can be sent different ways. Letters. E-mails. Texts. Tweets. When it comes to college basketball, the most important ones deal in numbers.