LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Saturday is the first women's basketball meeting of the season between in-state rivals UNLV and UNR and the first game for the two in the Silver State Series, the all-sports competition between the two schools sponsored by IBEW and Nevada Donor Network. The opener of the series will tip off at 5 pm in the Cox Pavilion, with the second game slated for Monday at 1 pm, also in the Cox Pavilion. 

There will be a live video stream available on the Mountain West Network, featuring the call of Ben Wilson and Ashly Dickinson (color analyst), while Wyatt Tomchek will provide play-by-play for the Lady Rebels' radio broadcast. Both the video stream and the radio broadcast can be accessed at UNLVRebels.com.    

UNLV Game Notes  

♦ UNLV is 21-1 all-time against UNR in Las Vegas, and 21-0 in regular-season action.
♦ The Lady Rebels come into Saturday's game alone in fourth place in the Mountain West at 5-3, having won three of their last four games including a split with current first-place New Mexico as well as a season sweep of Utah State on the road earlier this week.
♦ UNR is coming in off a sweep as well, at home over Wyoming. However, prior to that the Wolf Pack had lost six of their past seven games, five of them in MW action.
♦ The Wolf Pack will have to find a way to slow down the UNLV offense, as the Lady Rebels have scored 70 or more points in seven of the last eight games, UNR reached 70 just one in its past eight contests, a 78-70 loss to Fresno State.
 ♦  UNLV is one of the youngest and most inexperienced teams in the nation. The 11-player Lady Rebels roster is the sixth-youngest team in the nation with an average age of 19.5, while they are the only team in the nation with at least 90% of its roster that started the season with just one career total Division I start.