UNLV's Derrick Jones, fourth from left, motions to the crowd as the team plays Air Force during the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. UNLV won 108-102 in triple overtime. Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @csstevensphoto
At one point, UNLV was 7-1 and had beaten Indiana and Oregon, two basketball teams that would go on to win the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference titles.
Rebels fans were wondering if their team would get ranked and began looking ahead to March and what those two victories in particular could mean to placement in the NCAA Tournament.