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.
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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.
Rebels seniors Joe Darger and Rene Rougeau scored nine points each. Darger had 10 rebounds and Rougeau grabbed seven.
If not for the versatility of Rene Rougeau, UNLV would be a basketball team with a soft middle that is easily exposed.