UNLV
Attention to detail is one of UNLV coach Lon Kruger’s strengths. During practices, rarely does a minute go by without Kruger stepping in to make a teaching point.
The UNLV women’s basketball team couldn’t overcome a barrage of first-half 3-pointers from New Mexico, losing to the Lobos 75-49 Wednesday in Albuquerque, N.M., in the Mountain West Conference opener for both teams.
It was early in the season, and UNLV women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier was fretting that her team’s progress was occurring not by leaps, but mere baby steps.
After another dramatic finish at the buzzer, UNLV sophomore guard Tre’Von Willis was not in a celebratory mood.
You place an X on the positive side of the ledger and move on. Watch the tape, break down all the mistakes, try to learn from them, take another deep breath and begin preparing for the next game. There’s not much else to do after such an escape.
Wink Adams had plenty of tough shooting nights this season before he strained his lower abdominal muscle. So the UNLV senior guard couldn’t use his injury as an excuse.
The Fresno State women’s basketball team held UNLV to five first-half field goals en route to a 65-42 victory Friday night at Cox Pavilion.
They have won and looked disjointed. They have won and looked terrific. They have won on the road. They have won without their leading scorer against a Top 25 team on national television.
B.J. Bell intended to wait until February before picking a school, but barely into the new year, he decided where he wanted to go and figured now was the time to commit.
When his senior year comes to an end, Wink Adams wants to reflect on how UNLV won the Mountain West Conference.