Nevada opened the home portion of the 2017 season by dropping three of four games to Virginia Tech at Peccole Park over the weekend. The Wolf Pack now sits at 2-6 on the season heading into the first weekend of conference play. The Hokies, the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to play at Peccole, improved to 7-1. Nevada starts Mountain West play on Friday at Fresno … [Read more...]
Nevada throttles UNLV – again
Pack routes Rebels in most lopsided win in series history, stays in first place It’s probably fair to say the 2016-17 Nevada squad is better than UNLV’s. The Wolf Pack beat the Rebels by a then-record 27 two and a half weeks ago and re-upped that mark on Saturday in Las Vegas, dismantling the Rebels 94-58. With the rout, Nevada (23-6, 12-4) remained tied atop the … [Read more...]
Barham’s coming home
Former Spanish Springs soccer standout transferring to Nevada after two years at junior college in Washington She had to travel to the extreme Northwest of the continental United States to realize she wanted to come home. Well, kind of. Audrey Barham had illusions of playing Division I soccer at Nevada even before graduating from Spanish Springs in 2015 as a … [Read more...]
Free throws keep Nevada in first place
Wolf Pack hits a season-high 30-of-34 shots from the line, completes regular-season sweep of Boise RENO – Free throws aren’t sexy. They’re mundane. They stop the clock. They’re as fun to watch as four wide ones on the diamond. You know what is sexy? First place. Nevada shot 29 second-half free throws on Wednesday night to pull away from Boise State for an 85-77 … [Read more...]
Nevada shoots into three-way tie atop Mountain West
Nevada did something on Saturday night it hadn’t been able to do in three weeks: Put together a second-straight strong outing. The Wolf Pack (21-6, 10-4) moved into a three-way tie atop the Mountain West alongside Boise State and Colorado State with a 77-66 win over Utah State in front of an announced crowd of 10,336 at Lawlor Events Center. The Aggies, who thumped the … [Read more...]
Pack can’t get shots to fall at San Diego State, drops to third
For much of the game, it looked like Nevada’s effort at Utah State from a week and a half ago. The Wolf Pack couldn’t buy a bucket (shot a season low 29.9 percent from the field), allowed a poor shooting San Diego State team to hit 48 percent from the field, and ultimately suffered the same result – a lopsided defeat. Nevada (19-6, 8-4) dropped its second straight road … [Read more...]
Nevada hands UNLV epic beat down, moves into first place
Largest announced crowd in Lawlor history witnesses 27-point rivalry rout RENO – Famous boxing promoter Michael Buffer dropped his trademark in the front of the largest announced crowd in Lawlor Events Center history. “Let’s get ready to rumble” he declared, after announcing the starting lineups, sending 11,841 (Lawlor capacity is 11,536) into a frenzy. The crowd … [Read more...]
Shoup Shots: Nevada, Oliver primed to run away with Mountain West regular season title
How do you forget a painful home loss to Fresno? Easy. You play your best basketball of the year, pick up the two biggest wins of the season, and grab sole possession of first place in the Mountain West all in a span of seven days. Nevada sits in the driver’s seat after convincing wins at Boise State on Wednesday night, 76-57, and at home against New Mexico on … [Read more...]