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Former UNLV head coach Dave Rice observes his old team at the Thomas and Mack during his final season. Rice was hired as a Nevada assistant coach after being fired by UNLV in January of 2016.
by Jack Rieger
Part I
In late February of this year, Dave Rice sat quietly in Lawlor Events Center and watched a Nevada basketball shoot-around. Just one month earlier, he had been fired as the head coach at UNLV — a program he won a national championship with as a player, then went on to coach for 15 years as both an assistant and head coach.