The author of one of the most improbable, unlikely and indescribable shots in recent Nevada Wolf Pack basketball history had no idea what he had just accomplished.
“I didn’t see it go in, to be honest,” smiled Wolf Pack guard Deonte Burton. “I was ready to go back on defense. But then I heard the crowd react.” Read more »
Chris Ault can’t wait until the start of spring and summer football practices.
“The competition should be steep and fierce,” the Nevada Wolf Pack head coach said after announcing his 22-player football recruiting class on Wednesday at Legacy Hall. “We already had a nice nucleus coming in but these players we’ve brought in today are going to make the competition for spots as good as we’ve seen around here in the last few years.” Read more »
Nevada PG Deonte Burton is taking control - photo by Mark Rauh
“We kind of put all our eggs in one basket at point guard,” the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball head coach said of his narrow recruiting focus two years ago. “We wanted Deonte (Burton). And if he had gone to UCLA I don’t know what we would have done.” Read more »
After his second season as the Nevada Wolf Pack’s head football coach, a 31-year-old Chris Ault was suddenly one of the hottest young coaches in college football.
The Air Force Academy caught up with Ault on a recruiting trip in Los Angeles in December 1977 and talked with the Pack coach for over three hours about becoming its new head coach.
“I told them I still had a job to do in Reno,” Ault told the media just over 34 years ago. “I really mean that. I’m very loyal to Reno. I owe everything to the university.” Read more »
On some of those cold December nights, when the upper reaches of Lawlor Events Center is desolate, barren and lifeless, you swear to yourself you can almost see them sitting up near the rafters all by themselves and smiling.
“I tell my guys, ‘You are going to be haunted by the ghosts,’” said Nevada coach David Carter, a believer in all things spiritual and mystical when it comes to the Wolf Pack basketball Gods. “I tell them, ‘The ghosts are real. They are there. Those ghosts came before you.’” Read more »
A smarter, leaner, more focused Malik Story is paying huge dividends for the Nevada Wolf Pack men‘s basketball team this season.
“My shot selection has been much better and I’m making sure I’m getting in a good rhythm this year,” Story said. Read more »
There are times when Brice Crook feels like the latest top prize winner on a television reality show.
“I’m this team’s biggest fan,” said Crook of his Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball teammates. “I grew up watching all those great teams go to the NCAA tournament (2004-07).”
As far as Crook is concerned right now he’s the American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, The Apprentice and America’s Got Talent champion all rolled into one. Read more »
The First Midwinter Madness ended in glorious triumph yesterday when LSU met Oregon in the first Rose Bowl FPS National Championship Game. Who won? First, we recap the Final Four match-ups…then you’ll have to scroll to the end to see who emerged as national champions…
How confident is the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team right now?
Well, Malik Story started doing jumping jacks in the middle of the court Saturday night with just under five minutes to play.
“I just wanted to get the crowd into it a little,” smiled the junior Wolf Pack guard. Read more »
The Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team promises not to overlook the Fresno State Bulldogs literally and figuratively.
“They are still a very dangerous team,” senior forward Olek Czyz said of the Bulldogs. “It’s a WAC game and we want to win the WAC.” Read more »
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