When: 8:00 Tuesday night
TV: Pac-12 Networks
Hey, remember the 2013 basketball season, when Cal lost to UNLV in a back-and-forth thriller early in the season, then earned a 12 seed and pulled off a mild upset in the rematch over the 5 seed Runnin’ Rebels in San Jose?
Well, that game represents Cal’s last NCAA tournament win and UNLV’s last NCAA tournament appearance. Since then, things have been mostly not great for both programs. We all know quite well what’s happened at Cal since. Down in Vegas, Dave Rice oversaw a slow decline from the Lon Kruger era, and when Marvin Menzies left New Mexico State to take over in 2017 he inherited a shell of a program with 3 scholarship players on the roster.