Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 71-53 loss to No. 3 Kansas on Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center:
1. DECEMBER IS JUST ABOUT OVER.
Most UNLV fans went into this month with one eye closed (some with two), and rightfully so. This Rebels team wasn’t equipped to handle a nonconference schedule that included ranked teams Duke, Oregon and Kansas within 12 days of one another, and they lost to those teams by a combined 87 points.
The good news for the Rebels was they showed progress, with the 94-45 loss to the Blue Devils on Dec.