On the January evening Dave Rice was fired just three games into the Mountain West schedule, as unprecedented a move as you will find in college basketball, he looked UNLV's seniors in the eyes and promised they would see him again.
That he would be there to celebrate their careers on Senior Day.
That he would be present when they played their final regular-season game at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Zero is a tough number to gauge, but in a college world in which few firings are followed by amicable feelings between the involved parties — especially the guy who was bounced in a situation that was dishonestly described by those doing the bouncing as a mutual parting of the ways — Rice on Saturday did something you would hardly ever witness at this level.