After a couple of months of college life, UNLV freshman Oscar Bellfield is handling almost everything with ease.
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Kathy Olivier just keeps talking — she’s a college basketball coach, which means she owns the intrinsic capacity to yap like Churchill — until the recruit’s eyes flicker. That’s when she knows the proper button has been pushed.
It will be two months until Derrick Jasper is ready to participate in basketball practices and another year until he can play in a game for UNLV. About all he can do now is sit and wait.
Most of the time, Darris Santee is relaxed and quiet. He seems almost too polite to be a power forward.
Thirty-nine minutes after the scheduled start of UNLV’s opening basketball practice Friday night, senior guard Wink Adams jogged across a red carpet and led the team onto the floor.
Little or no buzz accompanied coach Lon Kruger’s first basketball practice at UNLV in October 2004. He was excited, but few others shared that enthusiasm.
Not everyone associated with Brigham Young shares his opinion, but senior guard Lee Cummard said he looks forward to his trips to Las Vegas.
With a new coach and the loss of their best player to graduation, the Lady Rebels didn’t expect to be picked very high in the Mountain West Conference basketball preseason poll.
With his senior season on the horizon, UNLV’s Wink Adams is enjoying the view from the top.
There are basketball recruits who arrive on campus with big reputations and four or five stars attached to their name, and then there is DeShawn Mitchell.
One day after undergoing a heart transplant operation, Glen Gondrezick was not resting comfortably. He was in pain, as expected. But he was feeling optimistic about the future.
Even while dealing with half a deck of cards last season, UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger never complained about playing short-handed.
For the second time in Lon Kruger’s five years as coach, UNLV’s basketball team will open Mountain West Conference play with a home game.
In the summer before his senior year in high school, Wink Adams had plenty of college options. He was being looked at seriously by Florida, Arkansas and Connecticut, to name just a few schools.