Dec. 29, 2000
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STORYLINE: The UNLV Lady Rebels (8-2) play the fourth game of a seven-game home stand with a non-conference matchup against Prairie View A&M (3-6) on Saturday, Dec. 30 at the Thomas & Mack Center ... The Rebels are riding a two-game winning streak with victories over a pair of former Big West Conference rivals in Pacific and Nevada, Reno ... UNLV is off to its best record since starting the 1993-94 season with a 10-2 mark ... The Rebels are a perfect 4-0 on Saturday's this year ... This will be UNLV's second meeting against the Southwestern Athletic Conference this season as the Rebels topped Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 74-57 on Nov. 24.
LADY REBELS ON THE AIR: All Lady Rebel games are 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 (8-2) 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 ... The Rebels are coming off a pair of impressive wins with an 86-64 triumph over Pacific and a 67-57 victory over Nevada, Reno ... Against Pacific, junior forward Linda Fr?hlich scored a season-best 37 points on a school-record shooting performance, hitting 16-of-17 shots from the field ... Head coach Regina Miller is in her third season with the Lady Rebels and has a record of 41-25 (.621) ... Miller collected her 100th career victory as a head coach in the win over Eastern Washington ... UNLV is led by Fr?hlich, who leads the Mountain West Conference in scoring with 19.9 ppg and in rebounding with 8.6 rpg.
ABOUT PRAIRIE VIEW A&M: Prairie View A&M (3-6) enters Saturday's game with a three-game losing streak ... The Panthers return four letterwinners and three starters from last season's 12-17 team that finished tied for fifth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with an 8-10 mark ... They are coached by Bob Atkins, who has a 102-335 (.233) record in his 16th season at PVAMU ... Sophomore forward Tanisha Lee leads the Panthers in scoring with 14.4 ppg and in rebounding with 9.8 rpg.
SERIES NOTES: The two schools have never met ... UNLV has faced one Southwestern Athletic Conference opponent already this season, defeating Arkansas-Pine Bluff 74-57 back on Nov. 24 ... The Rebels are 4-0 this season against schools which they have never met.
WITH THE BALL: Through 10 games, UNLV is averaging 71.4 points per game ... The Rebels rebounded from a season-worst .333 (22-66) from the floor vs. Cal State Northridge with a season-best .614 (35-57) against Pacific ... In that game, junior forward Linda Fr?hlich broke the school record for single-game shooting percentage, connecting on 16-of-17 (.941) field goals for a season-high 37 points. In just 30 minutes, Fr?hlich was three points shy of a career high and seven points shy of the school record. She upped her season scoring average to 19.9, which leads the Mountain West Conference ... UNLV shot a season-best .870 (20-23) from the line against Cal State Northridge ... Six Rebels (Davis, Fr?hlich, Gambill, Johansson, Jinks and Gl?ser) are shooting 75 percent or better from the line ... Brooke Ingalls, who is primarily the Rebels' strongest defensive players, has scored in double figures in the last two of the last three games and leads the team in shooting percentage (.595, 22-37) ... Point guard Dayna Gambill dished a then-career-high 10 assists against Pacific, just four short of the school record of 14. Five days later, she broke her career high again, handing out 11 scoring chances against Nevada, Reno while turning the ball over only three times. Not only does she again lead the team in assists with 46 (5.1 apg), but has increased her scoring output to almost 9.0 ppg, up from a 5.6 ppg average last season.
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 17th in the league with 5.1 rpg. She pulled down a career-high 11 boards against Cal State Northridge to record her first-ever double-double ... The Rebels stole the ball a season-high 16 times from Pacific ... The addition of some front line height has also caused a swell in the Rebels' block totals. UNLV already has 26 blocked shots on the season and didn't record its 26th block until the 12th game of last year. Linda Fr?hlich leads the team with nine blocks, followed by Petra Gl?ser with six and Viveca L?f with 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 101-125 in her ninth season as a head coach, including a 60-100 mark compiled in six seasons at Western Illinois, and is 41-25 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 5-1 at home this season and own an all-time record of 90-30 (.750) 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.
