UNLV guard Ache Ofoegbu, right, consoles Jalen Poyser after the Rebels loss to Kansas at Thomas and Mack Arena on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. The Jayhawks defeated the Rebels. 71-53. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jeffscheid
The one-person country act that broke out at halftime at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday night, which you would have thought might be aided by better acoustics given the music was played from a tape and UNLV just spent $73 million renovating the place, was unexpected.