I know he just 'retired'.

I know his style of basketball isn't the most pleasing.

But I would definitely kick the tires on Tony Bennett and see if a year off recharged his batteries. Still a relatively young guy at 55.

Also I'm referring to former UVA coach not the singer..

Only a few hundred seats are left in the 100 level, and now all of the 200 level seats on both the north and south side are for sale! I am fairly certain they are selling the 200 level seats on secondary markets just like they did for the Boise State game, thus it looks like more seats are sold than are actually sold. The good thing is ticket sales are at about the same pace, which makes it very likely they will be beyond 40K tickets sold, with an outside chance at setting a new attendance record. This without question tells me that a fair number of casual fans are buying tickets to the game.

Up 7 give up the last 8, down by 1, Northwestern under 30% from field.
Watching this offense to cherry and 4 standing in concrete, it's all coaching, I blame whaley last yr on double team passing, but KK and staff are stooges.

This is blowout loss in 2nd, Walking Rebs 25 points tonight, why do I watch this crap.

… for multiple reasons ….

UNLV will not take their foot off the gas pedal tomorrow …. I wouldn’t say at any point … but they want this to be a statement game, an impressive spread ….

One of the major reasons we suck is rebounding. This year and the three previous years we have been 252nd, 244th, 244th and 123rd in total rebounds per game. You can't be consistently that bad in one the most important aspects of basketball and expect to win. Period. IMO, here are only two reasons this can happen. 1) Not considering toughness in recruiting. 2) Not coaching properly. I think we have both.

UNLV could be ranked again tomorrow. Five losses at the bottom of the top 25 today. I think we might be back in at least one of the polls tomorrow.

#19 Wazzu
#20 Kansas State
#21 LSU
#22 Louisville
#24 Mizzou

Even Utah State pushes it up the court when able. We slow everything down and give the defense a chance to setup.

Why does this need to happen?

Line is about 8. They are unbeaten with a couple of decent wins. They have no injuries and we have?? Game at Mullett Arena in Tempe.

Mississippi State 82 UNLV 71.

Supposed to be some really good talent, some UNLV targets.

Tell me why Bear Cherry and DTJ don't run this 20 times a game.

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Did you guys see the SJSU tranny live in person yet?

Number 22 currently.

Just beat UCON. Makes our loss look a touch better.

Grateful for Coach Odom and his staff and for Harp for pulling the trigger on Orroyo when he could have easily taken the easy path and stuck with him but instead found Odom and didn’t hesitate to make the change. It is indeed a wonderful time for us Rebel fans. May it last as long as our tortuous past!

Gloria calls the PAC-12 Lawsuit a little more than a gripe.

Good update.

Obviously a rivalry game and everything that goes with that. This is UNRs Bowl game/National Championship Game... nothing else exists past this game for them. They want nothing more than to hand us an L.
We obviously have tremendous motivation too - I get that!
My main concern is Reno players playing dirty... injuring our players... late hits, targeting, rolling with someone's leg, low blocks, ... etc. Just trash play to get a W... or take us down with them. I think it could be amplified if we pull ahead significantly.

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They’re just built different.

I felt like the Memphis game was a huge game for us, but it didn't get much publicity, and the attendance was poor (6,510) for being the biggest non-conference home game of the season. Memphis is still undefeated and knocked off #2 UCONN yesterday and Michigan State today. The Rebels hung with them and could have won that game. I guess I just wished it would have been a better home court advantage with a much bigger and enthusiastic crowd. Memphis plays in the championship game of the Maui Invitational tomorrow against the winner of Auburn and North Carolina. That looks like the loss to Memphis won't hurt UNLV but a win would have really helped.

I’m at the game. It sure would be nice if we were able to get in games that had an environment like this.

So now that UNLV is back on track to play in the MW championship game against Boise, I'm starting to look more into the chances that UNLV has for getting into the College Football Playoff (CFP).

From the CFP website, here are some of the criteria that they give for determining the 12 teams to make it:

Key #1 - the 5 highest ranked (by CFP selection committee) conference champions get an automatic bid. Right now, obviously the Big10, SEC, and ACC have teams ranked in the top 10, so they would be likely to take 3 of the 5 bids. After that, it will be between the MW, Big 12, and American conference to get the other 2 bids.

-Big 12 has 9 teams that are within 1 game of first place. I don't know the criteria on who would have tiebreakers and everything, but the best Big 12 teams by record are ASU, BYU, and Iowa State, with Colorado coming in with 1 more loss overall.

-American conference has two teams tied at 7-0 in conference. Army is 9-1 and was ranked #19 last week prior to losing to Notre Dame, so they should be dropping. Tulane is 9-2 and was ranked #20 in the CFP rankings last week, but didn't play. Ideally, UNLV can jump Tulane, but I don't see it happening just by us beating UNR.

So if UNLV wins out including beating Boise, we would be 11-2 with a marquee win over Boise State.
Army has 2 more games and could end up 11-1, and will play Tulane in the championship game.
Tulane has 1 more game and will end up playing Army in the championship game.

So I think the big question is, would UNLV be ranked higher than either
1. The Big 12 champion, or
2. The American conference champion.

Assuming that any of the 2 loss Big 12 teams end up winning the Big 12 championship, I have a hard time believing that UNLV could end up ranked higher than them, so that leaves us matching up against the American conference champion.

When the new polls come out tomorrow, I'm assuming that UNLV will pass Army in the rankings (mostly due to them having a really weak schedule and getting blown out by Notre Dame), but we'll likely still be ranked lower than Tulane. If Tulane wins this week and beats Army in the championship game, they may be hard for UNLV to jump in the CFP rankings. We might be better off if Army beats Tulane in the championship game, but I'm not sure.

At a glance, Tulane's schedule doesn't look very tough, but for some reason the computers like them. In the ESPN power index, Tulane is #17, while Boise is #27, UNLV is #43 and Army is #54.

I just heard that Michigan flipped LSU’s big QB commit Underwood with a $10MM NIL offer. For one player. Insanity.