RENO — Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 104-77 loss to UNR on Wednesday night at Lawlor Events Center:
1. IT WAS BAD, AND THAT’S NO SURPRISE
UNLV was a 12½-point or 13-point underdog, depending on the sports book, so expectations were low that the Rebels would be competitive.
And they weren’t, falling behind 15-6 by the first media timeout and never truly making a game of it.
The lack of surprise about how this game played out speaks to just where the program has fallen. Even in last season’s 18-win disappointment, UNLV was expected to at least compete with its upstate rival, and that’s what the Rebels did in splitting the series.