The Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team entered Friday evening barely treading .500 with losses in three of their last five; though the trio of losses coming to nationally-ranked Kansas, along with stingy Mountain West conference foes in Boise State and Wyoming. But head coach Steve Alford still challenged his team to be tougher and play more consistently promising basketball for a full 40 minutes, which has been an on again, off again switch throughout the first 15 games of the season.
In the midst of arguably the toughest part of the schedule with Colorado State and Utah State looming in the wind next week, it was near-imperative they walked away with a victory over one of the best teams in the Mountain West before the season potentially spirled in the wrong direction.