LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Â Saturday is the annual Play4Kay Pink Game for UNLV women's basketball, as the Lady Rebels host New Mexico in a 3 pm contest in the Cox Pavilion. All fans are encouraged to wear pink as UNLV honors breast cancer awareness, and the first 200 in the door will receive a free UNLV pink towel.
Tickets for UNLV women's basketball are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and staff, while kids 17 and under are free at UNLV Lady Rebel contests. Tickets are also $3 off if bought online at UNLVRebels.com by the night before the game.
There will be a live video stream available on the Mountain West Network, with the link also available on UNLVRebels.com. Ben Wilson and Amie Callaway will provide the call, while Wyatt Tomchek (play-by-play) will handle the radio broadcast on KBAD 920 AM.Â
UNLV Game Notes Â
♦  UNLV is back on its home court Saturday against New Mexico after its last two-game road trip of the season where it lost a pair of games to fall to fourth place in the MW standings.
♦  Despite the two straight losses, the Lady Rebels do control their own fate in regards to claiming a top-three seed. They are just half a game behind third place Boise State and one game behind second-place San Jose State, and will face both squads over the final five games of the season.
♦  UNLV has dominated the series of late with the Lobos, having won seven of the past eight games, and have not lost to New Mexico in Las Vegas since the 2013 MW Tournament quarterfinals.
♦  UNLV is winning off defense, as the Lady Rebels are currently first in the MW in scoring defense, field goal percentage defense and rebound margin, as well as No. 2 in the nation in three-point field goal defense at 23.3%. The Lady Rebels have never finished the season first in the MW in either scoring defense or field goal defense, while they are leading the league in rebound margin for the fifth straight season.
♦  The 2019-20 UNLV Lady Rebel squad are one of the youngest and least experienced teams in the Mountain West this season after graduating four senior starters. UNLV has 10 underclassmen on this year's squad, with seven freshmen and three sophomores, while the four-member senior class had a total of two career starts (as a Lady Rebel) entering the season.