The Mountain West Conference is doing some serious climbing.
UNLV Basketball
Intensity was in Tre’Von Willis’ eyes when he first stepped on the floor Saturday. The UNLV junior guard appeared ready for a fight.
Brigham Young’s women’s basketball team used a 17-2 spurt to pull away from UNLV and gain a 76-60 victory in the Mountain West Conference on Saturday at Provo, Utah.
Don’t be misled by coach-speak that suggests every game is as important as the next.
Matt Shaw says it wasn’t about making a statement, because he has been part of a college basketball program for years now and understands the roller-coaster ride that is a 30-game regular season. He has seen how rhythm shooting can propel teams to unbelievable stretches of play, how it can demoralize even a ranked opponent.
UNLV needs to play basketball today as if it’s the one opening a jaw and showing teeth. It needs to clamp down and not let go.
It’s natural to watch Jimmer Fredette and come away impressed with the Brigham Young junior guard. Flaws in his game are hard to find.
After an exceptional career at UNLV and a seven-year stint in the NBA that ended in 1984, Robert Smith never left basketball. The former point guard played in the Continental Basketball Association and in France, coached at all levels from youth to college and spent a lot of time in local rec centers teaching fundamentals.
At an NCAA Tournament party inside a South Point ballroom in March, hundreds of college basketball fans gathered for the opening day of games.
They ate (some), drank (a lot) and wagered (even more). They cheered and booed. They shot baskets for prizes. They laughed when Brigham Young lost another first-round game.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — After a month in which every game was suspenseful for UNLV, junior forward Matt Shaw enjoyed a night that was in no way stressful.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — No insult intended to junior guard Kendall Wallace, but when he’s in the starting lineup for UNLV, it’s probably because of bad news. In this case, it’s another injury.
Cox Pavilion hasn’t been kind to the UNLV women’s basketball team since Mountain West Conference play tipped off last month.
Eleven players are consistently seeing the floor for UNLV, and such a deep rotation is rare for a college basketball team three months into the season. It was coach Lon Kruger’s plan all along, and he’s sticking to it.
In November there were questions about which one of the 11 would be the Rebels’ leader. On and off the floor, junior guard Tre’Von Willis has provided the answer.
An optimist would say UNLV junior Derrick Jasper received a positive injury report Wednesday. His basketball season is expected to continue. But he will miss approximately five weeks, after an MRI examination revealed a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
The UNLV women’s basketball team erased a nine-point deficit in the final two minutes to beat Air Force 77-76 in a Mountain West Conference game Tuesday at Air Force Academy, Colo.
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