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Another appearance in the Mountain West Championships resembled a trial run as the UNLV men’s basketball program drought without reaching its conference tournament’s semifinals has reached 12 straight years. Facing the top seed in the tourney as the eight seed, UNLV was pummeled by Utah State, 80-60, Thursday, March 12 from the Thomas & Mack Center. During the regular season, the Rebels swept the Aggies including a 27-point win in this same building nine days ago. “It was not

More than one time this season, a block from freshman forward Tyrin Jones saved the game for the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. He did it again in the program’s biggest game of the year so far. Jones’ swat helped secure a, 73-70, win over the Wyoming Cowboys Wednesday, March 11 from the Thomas & Mack Center as part of the 8-9 matchup of the Mountain West Championships. After only playing once in the regular season, the Rebels avenged their 32-point loss to the Cowboys back in early Jan

UNLV’s Lady Rebels went from never trailing in the first half to being down double-digits in the fourth quarter on the way to having its chances at another Mountain West Conference tournament title crown extinguished. As the two highest seeds remaining in this year’s Mountain West Championships, the two-seed Lady Rebels lost, 66-59, to the Colorado State Rams Monday, March 9 from the Thomas & Mack Center. Both teams claimed a double-digit win during the regular season ahead o

A wild start to the second day of the Mountain West Championships saw the UNLV Lady Rebels as the bracket’s highest remaining seed without having played a game yet. The program opened this year’s tournament run with a, 79-65, win over Fresno State Sunday, March 8 from the Thomas & Mack Center, a place where the team has yet to lose this season in three tries. That makes it three wins this season in three meetings against the Bulldogs for the Lady Rebels. “We watched all the g