After a month long hiatus Silver and Blue Sports “Statistically Challenged” is back with a year end review of Wolf Pack basketball.  Led by soon-to-be sophomore Deontè Burton, who was the only freshman included on any of the All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC) postseason teams, and ‘11 senior Dario Hunt, the pieces are certainly there for [...]

For the fourth consecutive year at Nevada, we will not be able to Dance with Wolves.  That’s quite a drought, particularly for a program with our expectations.  But there’s another drought that’s been weighing on me as of late…

When you watch all the mesmerizing postseason tournaments around college basketball, from the powerful Big East to the dramatic ACC, the one thing that really stands out is how well some programs are playing and coming together as a team and how others disintegrate under the pressure and spotlight of the madness. You have your [...]

As most Wolf Pack fans acknowledged back in the fall, the 2010-11 basketball season was going to be filled with teaching moments and growing pains for what turned out to be the youngest program in college basketball.   That’s precisely what occurred on the hardwood for David Carter’s second year club, mixing in some spectacular performances, [...]

Las Vegas, NV – The Nevada Wolf Pack were eliminated from the WAC Tournament for the second consecutive year by New Mexico State as the Silver and Blue lost another hard-fought battle with the Aggies at Orleans Area on Thursday afternoon.  NMSU closed the game on a 17-6 run to out-tough the young Wolves in [...]

When it comes to college basketball’s postseason, every player wants the last laugh.  They want it badly.  It is the competitive nature of this sport , so much so that even if a conference foe dropped you by a combined 50 points during the regular season and got you twice, you still hope to get [...]

Nevada jumped out to a big lead, including a 19-point first half margin and led by double-digits the rest of the way in a 90-80 first-round WAC Tournament victory over Fresno State on Wednesday afternoon in Las Vegas.  The Wolf Pack were led by Malik Story’s 34 points, a new career high, as the sophomore [...]

Almost two weeks ago Nevada controlled their fate for one of the WAC Tournament’s top two seeds.  They needed to win their final four games to give them a bye all the way to the semifinals.  Although that never materialized, with the Wolf Pack crashing in three of those crucial four contests and thus collecting [...]

It is a case of good news-bad news for the Wolf Pack on the eve of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Tournament.  The bad news? Nevada must win 4 games in four days in order to make the NCAA Tournament.  It has been done before, but it is no easy task.  What is the good [...]

It’s like a scene straight out of Roger & Me. At the south end of a once profitable strip mall sits a vacant storefront, the faded silhouette of ghostly letters barely visible on the brick.  This is the sort of thing you might have seen in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, or Flint, Michigan [...]