LARAMIE, Wyo. — The most important basketball game in Dave Rice's career as UNLV's head coach and for others around him takes place Saturday in the southeastern part of Wyoming, a place west of Cheyenne that can be found at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287.
Laramie of old was a Wild Wild West stop of gun fights and brothels, but the more modern-day version has been identified by Money Magazine as one of the best cities in which to retire.
Rice isn't ready for such a commitment as the latter, but the wolves back home are howling louder than those inside snowy mountain ranges overlooking these parts.