When the number of Mountain West games is 18 and your program hasn't won a regular-season league championship in forever, any mark on the left side of a win-loss column is cherished inside a locker room.
And any loss such as the one UNLV suffered Wednesday night should be dissected and remembered and replayed over and over again to make a point.
This was a mark on the right side, and it was about as ugly as you can imagine.
Disappointing isn't a strong enough term to describe how the Rebels played in falling to Fresno State 69-66 before an announced gathering of 12,220 at the Thomas & Mack Center in the conference opener for both teams.