That's what we need to do to land Graham Ike. Just hopped in the portal this morning.

Down by 4 at the half. Have not made a three. Against us, they couldn't miss.

Nm

Is in the Elite 8! The 702 needs to become a factor in March again!

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NEWS: Nevada forward Darrion Williams, the Mountain West Freshman of the Year, plans to enter the transfer portal, he tells
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. Averaged 7.6 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 2.7 assists this season.

As the title says I haven’t been here in a while, and apparently my username is now racist for some reason. I still watch games except for the year I boycotted the Menzie’s hiring.

Can someone just sum up what the problem is? How is it possible that it all went so wrong? Are we lagging behind in facilities? Are we really just THAT bad at finding a coach? 10 years is a bit much for no post-season hoops.

I happily admit that I was wrong about wanting Kruger Sr. gone when I did, he deserved whatever he wanted and I’m sorry for not realizing that, but there has to be a systemic problem that I’m missing at this point, and I am not local to Vegas to have a frame of reference.

Lunardi: My gut reaction is that the entire field seems to have parted for UConn, which still hasn't lost to a non-Big East team. Of course, the Huskies still have to get past Gonzaga in Las Vegas -- no gimme -- and it's worth noting they were just 1-3 against Creighton and Xavier in the regular season.

I have an issue with ESPN. If your not on it, your team sucks. The Zags will probably beat U Conn in a tough game. Timme and the Zags have had big men on their roster, played vs them and the team that should have been a number one seed, Texas beat the daylights out of them. Times have changed since then as Malachi has shown up and the rest of the Zags improved team defense. Teams that should have not been overlooked are SDSU who had that puzzling loss to UNM and Miami who beat the crud out of Duke. Right now the four best teams are Texas, Zags, Miami, and U Conn with Creighton a tough out. No one wants to play SDSU who can have four players with four fouls and not even slow down. Great job, Aztecs

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Mark Wade held the record for the most assists in an NCAA tournament game (18) when UNLV played Indiana in the Final Four in 1987. Kansas St.'s Markquis Nowell just broke it with (19) in an overtime win vs. Michigan State. At least UNLV was mentioned in a tournament game this year.

I hear a lot of complaints about our offense or lack of offense. I am no guru, but what i have seen lately looks like garbage.....weave weave weave until our alpha has the ball and then see what happens. There has been consistent talk about not knowing what to do against a zone as well.

I am wondering which UNLV coach has ran the best offense?

Please, all of you, QUIT wearing black uniforms every chance you get. I have never see a program so allergic to wearing their school colors. I have never seen our UNLV football team wearing a uniform such as grey pants and scarlet jerseys in the last ten years. Our basketball team must be about 2-8 on their last ten black uniform games. And, then, the Lady Rebels, in their Biggest game in years decide to wear The San Diego St colors. Mindboggling and disappointing. I was sick when I saw them come out on to the court. Where are our Rebel Red uniforms????

Someone tweeted that Dave might get the NMSU job. Have you guys heard anything?

Does anyone have any insight to how practice is progressing? From what I know it was closed to the public, but that’s never stopped peaking through a fence. I’m out of state, but was curious if someone knew how the competition is going and new players maybe making a splash. I guess we’ll know more with the spring game around the corner.

Harvey said he likes Coach Odom. Said he is very personable. He gave a lot of credit to the UNLV football program.

His team is under .500 plus he has played like 5 or 6 years. They were invited to some other tourney last year also with a record und .500 which the lost in the 1st game. Cheated my ass.

Vic is gone. Not too many are surprised with this one either. I wonder where he could/would go

If we need a coach, the Princeton's coach is for real.

When kids start transferring, typically people point fingers at coaches for not retaining them or not having the power or personality or capturing the trust of a player. It will always blamed on coaching. That’s just the way it works. This year, last year, 10 years ago, 20 years ago.

Sometimes coaches don’t want kids back and help them land elsewhere. That’s true.

I’m not looking to protect or make excuses for KK or any other coach - but it is not their “fault”. The environment of college sports is so much different and I’m sorry, kids have changed a lot. Values, patience, etc - they’re off. Freshman think they should have star power. Guy A in front of you who is clearly better and more valuable sucks in your eyes and you should be getting more minutes; the coach is stupid for not seeing it. Player circles can be toxic and self serving. Far more times than not, it’s the players’ “fault”.

I see both sides, coaches used to have every ounce of power and it’s shifted the other way. Only the most established programs, the most stable actually, have a stronger balance of that.

We aren’t there and I don’t know that we ever will be.

So don’t be surprised and instead of crapping on KK for not keeping kids (I don’t think he’s done a great job so far with the program, but I’m joy going to blame him for every single thing when this is more of a systemic problem that’s difficult to control), I’d say you should take a step back and see things for as they actually are.

Losing kids at a more rapid rate started during Lon’s era, didn’t afflict Spoon or Bayno as much. But it’s more a current climate thing than it is a coaching thing. Kids have more options than every before and they’re using them, usually shortsightedly, at least in my opinion, in most cases.