Dec. 22, 2000
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STORYLINE: The UNLV Lady Rebels (6-2) play the second game of a seven-game home stand with a non-conference matchup against former Big West Conference rival Pacific (6-4) on Saturday, Dec. 23 at the Thomas & Mack Center ... The Rebels are coming off their first home loss of the season, a 84-69 setback to Cal State Northridge on Tuesday, and have dropped two of their last three games ... The Tigers have won three straight, including a 69-53 win over Portland State in their last outing on Dec. 15 ... The game will be the first in eight days for UOP ... UNLV is a perfect 3-0 on Saturdays this season ... Kidz Night is a special promotion for Saturday's games in which all children under 13 get in free and some will actively participate in the operation of the game, including serving as a referee, statistician, public address announcer and reporter.
LADY REBELS ON THE AIR: Once again, all Lady Rebel games will be broadcast on radio throughout the Las Vegas area on KENO 1460 AM and throughout the world on unlvrebels.com. Returning for his 14th season as the Voice of the Lady Rebels, Bob Blum, the dean of West Coast broadcasters, will deliver the play-by-play. He will be joined courtside by former Lady Rebel Cheryl Kosewicz, who handles the color commentary for all home games.
THE LADY REBELS: UNLV (6-2) returns 11 letterwinners and four starters from last season's 17-12 team that finished fifth in the inaugural season of the Mountain West Conference ... After winning five straight games to open the season, UNLV has dropped two of its last three, including an 84-69 loss to Cal State Northridge last Tuesday at the Thomas and Mack Center ... Head coach Regina Miller is in her third season with the Lady Rebels and has a record of 40-25 (.615) ... Miller collected her 100th career victory as a head coach in the win over Eastern Washington ... UNLV is led by junior forward Linda Fr?hlich, who ranks second in the Mountain West Conference in scoring with 17.0 ppg, and fifth in rebounding with 7.4 rpg ... The Lady Rebels began the year ranked 45th in the Associated Press Preseason Poll, receiving three votes.
ABOUT PACIFIC: Pacific (6-4) will play their first game in eight days on Saturday ... The Tigers have won three straight and knocked off Portland State, 69-53, in their last game on Dec. 15 ... They return eight letterwinners and four starters from last season's 18-11 team that finished tied for second in the West Division of the Big West Conference with a 8-7 mark ... They are coached by Sherri Murrell, who has a 38-28 (.576) record in her third season at UOP ... Senior forward Millie Klimpton leads the Tigers in scoring with 17.3 ppg and in rebounding with 7.1 rpg.
SERIES NOTES: As former rivals in the Big West Conference, UNLV and Pacific have met 27 times ... The Lady Rebels hold an 19-8 advantage in the series, but have dropped the last five straight, including a 69-65 loss in Stockton, Calif., last season ... After winning the first 18 games in the series, UNLV has won just one of the last nine ... All but last year's meeting were Big West Conference games, including two games in the league tourney ... UOP defeated UNLV in the Rebels' last BWC Tournament game, 58-57 in the 1994-95 season.
WITH THE BALL: Through eight games, UNLV is averaging just more than 70 points per game ... The Rebels shot a season-worst .333 (22-66) from the floor vs. Cal State Northridge, but a season-best .870 (20-23) from the line ... Against Eastern Washington, the Rebels shot a season-high 32-for-55 (.582) from the field and 7-for-11 (.636) from three-point range ... Against Arizona, UNLV went 22-for-26 (.846) from the line, including an 11-for-13 performance by freshman Petra Gl?ser who needed only four more free throws to tie a school record ... Despite the success shooting the ball, the Rebels also committed a season-high 26 turnovers in the Arizona and EWU games ... Five Rebels (Davis, Johansson, Fr?hlich, Jinks and Gl?ser) are shooting better than 75 percent from the line ... Linda Fr?hlich has found her groove again after breaking her thumb in practice before playing in her first game. The junior All-American scored a season-high 24 points against Eastern Washington, including going 2-for-4 from three-point range. Her 17.0 ppg would rank second in the MWC if she had played in enough games ... Point guard Dayna Gambill has turned up her play a notch since last season. Not only does she again lead the team in assists with 36, but has increased her scoring output to almost 9.0 ppg, up from a 5.6 ppg average last season, and leads the squad in shooting percentage (.535). She ranks 24th in the league in scoring and sixth in FG percentage.
DEFENDING THE POST: The Lady Rebels are doing it with defense this season. They have allowed only two opponents to shoot better than 50 percent from the floor in a game and have lost both games ... Senior forward Brooke Ingalls has emerged as one of the MWC's top rebounders. Despite only standing 6-1, Ingalls is second on the team and 16th in the league with 5.4 rpg. She pulled down a career-high 11 boards against Cal State Northridge to record her first-ever double-double ... The addition of some front line height has also caused a swell in the Rebels' block totals. UNLV already has 19 blocked shots on the season and didn't record its 18th block until the 11th game of last year. Linda Fr?hlich and Petra Gl?ser have five blocked shots apiece, while Viveca L?f has four.
AWARDS ABUNDANT AT TOURNAMENTS: Not only did the Lady Rebels win their home tournament for the first time since the 1993-94 season, but they managed to walk away with all the hardware, too. Sophomore Constance Jinks was honored as the tourney's most valuable player after scoring 18 and 17 points in respective games. Freshman Petra Gl?ser and junior Kinesha Davis both earned all-tournament nods for their role in helping UNLV to the title. One week later, UNLV repeated by winning the Roger L. White Invitational in Evanston, Ill., and Jinks repeated by claiming MVP kudos after scoring a career-high 33 in the championship game. Junior Linda Fr?hlich was chosen as an all-tournament honoree.
BACK-TO-BACK AWARDS: Not only did Constance Jinks capture back-to-back tournament MVPs, but the 5-7 guard from Chicago was selected as the Mountain West Conference Player of the Week on Dec. 4, becoming only the second Lady Rebel to earn the honor, along with teammate Linda Fr?hlich. One week later, freshman Petra Gl?ser added her name to the list, claiming the honor on Dec. 11. Gl?ser scored a career-high 21 against Arizona and followed that performance with a 8-for-9 shooting night from the floor against Eastern Washington. A scheduling break which allowed the Lady Rebels 10 days off to concentrate in final exams prevented a three-peat as UNLV did not play last week.
MILLER REACHES CENTURY MARK IN WINS: UNLV head coach Regina Miller achieved a coveted career milestone in the Rebels' victory over Eastern Washington -- her 100th victory. Miller now has an overall coaching record of 100-125 in her ninth season as a head coach, including a 60-100 mark compiled in six seasons at Western Illinois, and is 40-25 in her third season at UNLV.
UCSB GAME CANCELED: The Lady Rebels' Jan. 3 game at UC Santa Barbara has been canceled due to a scheduling error by the Gauchos and will not be rescheduled.
ALL-UMLAUT TEAM: One statistic that the Lady Rebels are almost guaranteed to lead the country in this season is umlauts. An umlaut is a vowel sound caused by partial assimilation occurring in the following syllable and is indicated with a pair of dots over the vowel. After having just one umlaut in both of the last two seasons, the Lady Rebels are up to three on this year's roster: senior Viveca L?f, junior Linda Fr?hlich and freshman Petra Gl?ser.
IN THE TREES: Speaking of L?f and Gl?ser, the two overseas additions have helped UNLV to become the tallest team in the MWC. At 6-3 and 6-6 respectively, both are taller than any player on UNLV's 1999-00 roster. Throw in freshman Padra Strong, who stands 6-4, and the Rebels are no longer looking up at the rest of the league. UNLV boasts three of the MWC's 11 players that check in at 6-3 or taller, while only Gl?ser, Strong, Caroline Matthews of Utah and Morgan Vargas of San Diego State can reach the 6-4 mark.
AYE, AYE, CAP'N: Head coach Regina Miller has named senior Brooke Ingalls and junior Linda Fr?hlich as co-captains for the 2000-01 season. They rank first and second respectively in games played among active players.
LADY REBELS RETURN TO THE THOMAS & MACK: After rolling to a 10-5 record in its first full season at the Thomas & Mack Center, UNLV is happy to return to the venue in 2000-01. The Lady Rebels are 3-1 at home this season and own an all-time record of 88-30 (.746) in the Mack, in the arena's 18th season of basketball. This will be the last season that the Lady Rebels play in the Mack with the new 3,300-seat Cox Pavilion set to open next year.
UNLV OFFERS SEASON TICKET DISCOUNT: The UNLV athletics department has announced that Lady Rebel season tickets are now being offered at a discounted price of $30, five dollars off regular price. Plenty of seating is available for season ticket packages, which include admission to all of UNLV's 12 remaining home games this season.
FR?HLICH RETURNS FROM GERMANY: As one of the top players in her home country of Germany, Linda Fr?hlich was selected to the German National team and competed with the squad for 12 days in mid-November. Although she missed UNLV's first three games of the season, the Lady Rebels managed to escape unscathed. Meanwhile, Fr?hlich helped Germany to a 1-1 record at the qualifications for the European Championships. Germany defeated Romania by 28 points in Freiburg, Germany, and lost to Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania, by 12 points. To qualify, Germany needs Lithuania to defeat Romania, which would send Fr?hlich back to Europe to play for Germany at the European Championships in France in September of 2001.
UNLV RECEIVES VOTES IN AP POLL: Well, it's not the top 25, but the Lady Rebels made their second appearance in the Associated Press poll. UNLV received three votes in the 2000-01 Preseason poll, tying them with Stephen F. Austin for 45th. After losing its three votes without playing a game, UNLV reclaimed two of the votes in the Dec. 4 poll and tied for 49th, but those votes were lost in the week following a loss at No. 27 Arizona. The Associated Press poll ranks only the top 25 teams, but includes all other teams that also received votes. UNLV has not been ranked among the top 25 since Jan. 18, 1994, when the Lady Rebels ranked 25th with a 10-2 overall record.
UNLV CHOSEN FOURTH IN MWC PRESEASON POLL: At its annual media day, the Mountain West Conference released its preseason coaches and media polls. The Lady Rebels were chosen to finish fourth in the MWC standings in both polls following a fifth-place finish and an 8-6 conference mark a year ago. Utah was chosen in both polls to defend its conference title.
FR?HLICH EARNS PRESEASON HONORS: Honors are nothing new to junior standout Linda Fr?hlich, but the 6-2 forward from Oldendorf, Germany, has a couple more honors for her trophy case. She was chosen as a preseason All-American by Street & Smith's magazine after earning honorable mention All-America honors last season by both the WBCA and the Associated Press. She was also selected as the preseason Mountain West Conference Player of the Year by the league's coaches at its annual media day for the second straight year.
MILLER HONORED IN THE OFF SEASON: Head coach Regina Miller collected some honors of her own this summer. In addition to a contract extension that will keep her on the Lady Rebels' bench through at least the 2002-03 season, Miller was chosen as a court coach at the 2000 USA Basketball Women's Summer Development Camp, which is the trials for the Jones Cup team. She spent a week in Colorado Springs, Colo., working with many of the nation's elite players who were trying out for the national team.
