LOGAN, Utah — Fact: You can lose a basketball game by double digits several ways.
You can do so and look slow and unfocused and miserable and, a few days later, suffer the same result while appearing more engaged, more energized, more intent on competing.
Sometimes, the other team is better and you wave the white flag from the opening tip.
Sometimes, the other team is better, although not exponentially so, and you fight like crazy to overcome it.
UNLV knows this truth, understanding now how such a difference in perception can occur within the reality of defeat.