LAHAINA, Hawaii — Part of the message from the time practice began for UNLV this college basketball season was about reaction.
How would the Rebels respond to success? How would they deal with adversity?
We saw the latter play out for the first time Tuesday in a loser's bracket game of the Maui Invitational, where the Rebels were thankful at day's end that their opponent was from Division II and couldn't deal with UNLV's size and athleticism over 40 minutes.
It just dealt with it for 34.
The outcome might have been different had that not been the case, but it was, and the Rebels woke up long enough to comfortably dismiss Chaminade 93-73 at Lahaina Civic Center.