For the third time this season, UNLV fell just short of defeating Fresno State, losing 66-60 in the Mountain West women’s basketball tournament semifinals Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Lady Rebels finish the season 18-14.
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The Rebels are 15-point favorites tonight against San Jose State. The game tips at 7 p.m. PST.
Breaking down the UNLV basketball team’s game against San Jose State at 7 p.m. today at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The UNLV Rebels return to their home court for a two-game homestand. First up, the Rebels will host the San Jose State Spartans tonight at Thomas & Mack Center.. Here’s everything you need to know to watch.
UNLV interim basketball coach Todd Simon went down the depth chart at center when meeting Tuesday with the media. Dwayne Morgan, a 6-foot 8-inch forward, now is No. 1, followed by 6-7 forward Derrick Jones Jr., 6-6 guard Jordan Cornish and 6-7 guard Patrick McCaw.
I remember the telephone conversation, the optimism in his voice and determination to build a winning basketball program and excitement about coming home. Dave Rice was talking from his car that afternoon, en route with his family from Provo, Utah, to Las Vegas.
At the same time UNLV called a news conference to announce that Dave Rice had been fired — er, came to a “mutual agreement” with his athletic administration that he would step down as Rebels basketball coach — people were parking their cars and SUVs for “Disney on Ice” at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Who’s next? Now that Dave Rice has been fired as UNLV men’s basketball coach, who will be the next coach? Keep your eye on these names:
The UNLV women’s tennis program has seen its share of standouts over the years, but the Rebels have never before had a player with the pedigree of Carol Zi Yang.
It has reached the point of big picture thinking, far beyond losing to another inferior team and blowing yet another big lead and falling to 0-3 in a terrible conference without yet playing any of the best teams in said terrible conference, beyond appearing to have no answers on how to improve what is an offense that can only be described as UNLOLV.
Patrick McCaw banked in a meaningless 3-pointer at the buzzer, finishing off another head-scratching UNLV loss and kick-starting serious speculation about whether time has expired on coach Dave Rice.
Fred VanVleet scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half as Wichita State led the entire way in a 56-50 victory over UNLV on Wednesday night in a Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge game at Koch Arena.
The lesson is this: That a week and a month and a few months from now, and perhaps into the madness of March, UNLV’s basketball team can take from a December game in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River a definite truth about opposing an elite point guard.
Dantley Walker has departed UNLV for a land of mangoes and guava and cooling trade winds, for a Division II program in Chaminade whose history is defined by one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history.
On the day before the Mountain West basketball tournament, reality hit. It actually hit a long time ago. But Chris Wood shook his head when discussing how the Rebels ended up getting buried in the conference standings.
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