Boise State Hands Rebels

Well, this time it didn’t reach the last possession.

UNLV’s men’s basketball team lost its fifth direct game on Tuesday night to the 71-62 finale to Boise State at Thomas & Mack Center.

The previous four losses for the rebels-who slipped to 11-12 as a whole and 5-7 in the mountain west-white with a combined 15 points.

Things were not so in doubt about it.

Broncos (16-7, 8-4) opened the lead by 40-29 with a mileage of 7-0 to start the second half before UNLV calls Timeout.

The rebels had a highly struck strip. They missed 19 out of 21 shots in the last few minutes of the first half and the first six from the second. They missed their first 10 coming out of anthract.

But they were able to mint behind the security of the sophomore Dedan Thomas, Jr., who scored all except three of his highest 20 points in the second half.

It wasn’t enough yet. Boise State pulled away at the end.

It was the Jeremiah “Bear” Cherry led the road in the first 20 minutes for UNLV. He scored 13 in half, including several thunderstorms. It ended with 19.

Broncos took over their largest lead in half in eight points after three straight baskets-two 3S-from Tyson Degenhart to make 33-25.

Boise State transferred an advantage 33-29 to anthract.

Degenhart, the contractor of all conferences, led Boise State with 10 points in half.

The rebels spoke on Monday about the importance of staying even on boards with Boise State, one of the more physical countries in the Mountain West.

The bronze kept a 23-18 bounce in half, they succeeded eight in the offensive end, one more than the rebels.

For the game Boise State ahead of the Unlv 45-34.

“As a positive note, we can beat anyone in the League,” said senior guard Julian Richwain after Monday’s practice. “We are in each of these (last four) games, even on the road. Even when we are hit and down 8, 10, 12, we stay in it. We continue to fight.

“This is one of the biggest things to take from these games. It’s not like we blow out and when it comes to the end, they make a difficult shot and we don’t. Just keep believing that we’re right in it. We can defeat anyone and also let a few plays go and lose. “

It was more than a few plays on Tuesday. It was more of what Unlv didn’t do. As shooting 1 of 16 to 3s. As a 38 percent shooting for the game.

It was coach Kevin Krueger on Monday:

“We played good basketball and this is the kind of focus – just keep playing good basketball,” he said. “We were obviously at the short end of a couple here. Either we were tied, or we had lead for three minutes or less in each of them. We hope to hope in many of these situations.

“We are a good team. We have just fallen here in the last few. We will hang on to the positives that putting these positions and to be in these games will be helpful to us here when we reach the second half of the schedule in the conference, as the season comes close to the end. “

They were not a very good team on Tuesday in many areas. And for him, the rebels suffered a fifth straight loss. Next: in Wyoming on Saturday.

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