Rivals UNLV and SDSU square off Saturday night at the Madhouse on the Mesa.
When the Mountain West Conference schedule was released, many had Saturday night's game pegged as likely being the game to decide the regular season champion.
Both teams were entering the season with arguably the two most talented rosters in the conference, and UNLV was fielding a team which featured blue chip freshman recruits, experienced sophomores and a play making seniors in Ike Nwamu and Jerome Seagears. This was the year Dave Rice was supposed (expected) to get UNLV over the hump and release San Diego States stranglehold on the conference's top spot.