As a new kid in school, Oscar Bellfield was content to stay quiet and follow the leaders on the UNLV basketball team.
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Maybe this is it. Or almost it. Maybe in the world of UNLV basketball, there is some truth to that quote about timing.
That with patience, the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable becomes available, the unattainable becomes, yeah, you guessed it, attainable.
With his redshirt year in the rearview mirror, Carlos Lopez put on a white jersey Friday night and finally felt like a true UNLV basketball player.
An opinion poll in October, revealed in an e-mail from the Mountain West Conference, did not cause UNLV coach Lon Kruger to temper his enthusiasm about the months ahead. Media covering the Mountain West picked the Rebels to finish fourth in the 2010-11 season.
Forward Larry Johnson, a two-time All-American, was named UNLV’s No. 1 player on 21 of 25 ballots cast in R-J voting for the basketball program’s top 100 players.
Stacey Augmon, Years: 1987 to 1991, Career highlights: The No. 3 scorer (2,011 points) and No. 3 rebounder (1,005) in UNLV history.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal selected a panel of 25 voters to rank the top 100 players in UNLV basketball history. The panelists were provided with biographical information for 124 players. A first-place vote is worth 100 points. To reach a more accurate average, the highest and lowest vote for each player was deleted. The final rankings and vote totals (with first-place votes):
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