Archive for Featured

NMSU-Nevada Game Photos

Basketball, Featured on March 10th, 2011 No Comments

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, [...]

End of the Line

Basketball, Featured on March 10th, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

WAC Tournament: The Last Laugh

Basketball, Featured on March 9th, 2011 3 Comments

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 [...]

Fresno State vs. Nevada Game Photos

Basketball, Featured on March 9th, 2011 1 Comment

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 [...]

Nevada shoots into the WAC Quarterfinals

Basketball, Featured on March 9th, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

WAC Tournament Ahead

Basketball, Featured on March 7th, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

Cannon Fodder: Packonomics

Basketball, Featured, Football on March 7th, 2011 6 Comments

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 [...]

UNLV-Nevada Diamond Photos

Baseball, Featured on March 7th, 2011 1 Comment

It has been a stunning start to the 2011 college baseball season for Nevada, dropping their first 9 games, including a sweep by their southern Nevada rivals during their home opening series this past weekend. It is a stark contrast from last year, which saw the Wolf Pack begin the season 7-3 and included a [...]

Pack skid hits 9

Baseball, Featured on March 6th, 2011 1 Comment

Rance Roundy and the UNLV Rebels completed a sweep of the Nevada Wolf Pack after taking the series finale 5-0 on Sunday at Peccole Park.  The loss dropped the Wolf Pack to 0-9 on the season, and with just one more loss, Nevada head coach Gary Powers will be off to the worst start of [...]

WAC Freshman of the Year: Deonte Burton

Basketball, Featured on March 6th, 2011 3 Comments

After averaging a team high 13.6 points and 3.6 assists, plus handling the leadership and point guard duties for his team, Nevada freshman Deontè Burton was named the Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year.  A former Los Angeles prep star, Burton became the fourth Nevada freshman to ever win the award. He was also [...]