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Cold-shooting UNLV Rebels enter hot environment at UNR

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RENO — Shooting slumps come and go, but what has made this basketball season so challenging for UNLV is how many players have experienced them for such long stretches.

Some players have gone cold for a game or two, others for a month or more.

“Different guys get in different slumps on every level, but it seems as though we’ve had multiple guys in shooting slumps at the same time, which is very unique,” UNLV coach Marvin Menzies said.

A series of shooting slumps is far from how the Rebels (10-14, 3-8 Mountain West) want to head into Wednesday’s 8 p.