Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 94-45 loss to No. 5 Duke on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena:
1. It was as bad as feared
UNLV went in as a 24-point underdog, and was dominated from the beginning. Though that wasn’t a surprise, getting beaten so thoroughly underscores not only how far the program has fallen since the glory days of the early 1990s, but what kind of job first-year Rebels coach Marvin Menzies has in front of him.
He had to throw together his roster after being hired in mid-April, and it’s clear Menzies doesn’t have the talent to compete with the elite in college basketball.