UNLV's Nikki Wheatley (10) drives to the basket against New Mexico's Antiesha Brown (15) in their women's basketball game at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. UNLV won 79-73. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV was a tiebreaker away from having a day off Monday and a bye in the first round of the Mountain West women’s basketball tournament.
But coach Kathy Olivier said the coaching staff tried to push that possibility out of its mind.
“Whatever the seed was going to be, we (were) going to say, ‘We love this spot. Let’s run with it,” Olivier said.