Junior forward Roscoe Smith wants to do the defensive dirty work, but he can’t do it all. His partner in grime is junior big man Khem Birch, the other half the Rebels’ formidable frontcourt.
Basketball
Danielle Miller made the most of her only field goal Saturday for the UNLV women’s basketball team.
Arizona State’s Jahii Carson put on his own fireworks display at the Thomas & Mack Center, lighting up the scoreboard for a career-high 40 points and rallying the Sun Devils to an 86-80 comeback victory over UNLV before 12,915 on Tuesday night.
He’s timed by a shot clock instead of a stopwatch, but Arizona State sophomore Jahii Carson is the Usain Bolt of college basketball point guards.
It’s not often a student turns down what amounts to a free ride to Harvard. But that’s exactly what Alana Cesarz did, choosing to attend UNLV over the prestigious Ivy League school.
Birch’s putback with 12 seconds to go broke a tie, and his blocked shot with 5.2 seconds left helped the Rebels hold on for a 73-70 victory over Omaha on Friday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Following last year’s “Carol of the Balls,” some of the NBA’s best hoop it up to bring you a little Christmas cheer.
It took about a week for Bryce Dejean-Jones to overcome a hamstring injury. The junior guard plans on UNLV making an even quicker recovery from its latest setback.
In a back-and-forth battle, Brigham Young rode a late 7-0 run to a 71-64 victory over the UNLV women’s basketball team on Tuesday night at the Thomas &Mack Center.
Alan Williams scored 21 points and Kyle Boswell had 19 as UC Santa Barbara upset and embarrassed UNLV 86-65 at the Thomas & Mack Center, where there were boos and fans heading for the exits early.
Articulate with an introspective personality, Jelan Kendrick might not fit the stereotype of a basketball player who is at his fourth college because his first two stops were failures for disciplinary reasons.
Khem Birch totaled 13 points, 17 rebounds and four blocked shots to lift UNLV to a 67-48 victory over Portland State in the teams’ opener at the Thomas & Mack Center. He was especially dominant in the second half when he grabbed 14 rebounds.
College basketball fans begin to fall in love each March with teams that seem to come from out of nowhere to play the role of Cinderella in the NCAA Tournament. Bettors don’t have the luxury of waiting around to find out which teams that will be each season.
Whenever fear or doubt crept into Alana Cesarz’s psyche as she rehabilitated her left knee this summer following surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, she was reassured by Mia Bell, her UNLV basketball teammate who was recovering from microfracture knee surgery.
Without seeing Andrew Wiggins play, most media pundits are assuming the Kansas freshman will be the No. 1 pick in next summer’s NBA Draft. That might turn out to be true, but remember to always wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle and jumping to conclusions.
