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Derrick Jones Jr. ouster another insult to UNLV season of injury

UNLV basketball doesn’t need a reset button.

The Rebels need someone to perform selective memory erasure on them — just delete everything from the moment a ball was dribbled at this season’s first practice.

Or, as one tweet stated Wednesday in regard to the program’s recent issues: Lotta smoke coming out of that dumpster.

The latest negative mark to attach itself to the Rebels came via word that freshman forward Derrick Jones Jr., is academically ineligible for further competition because of his ACT score being cancelled.

Jones was declared eligible in the fall by the NCAA to compete this season and has played in all 30 games, averaging 11.