Runnin' Rebels Drop Regular-Season Finale At Wyoming - University of Nevada Las Vegas Athletics

Saturday, March 6

Laramie, Wyoming

8:00 PM PT

University of Nevada Las Vegas

11-14,8-10Mountain West

Wyoming

13-10,7-9Mountain West

Team	1	2	F
UNLV	34	35	69
Wyoming	43	37	80

3/7/2021 12:48:00 AM | Men's Basketball

Box Score FINAL STATS (PDF)

Bryce Hamilton led UNLV with 17 points in 80-69 loss Saturday night in Laramie.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV men's basketball team dropped its regular-season finale at Wyoming, 80-69, Saturday night at Arena-Auditorium.

Wyoming (13-10, 7-9) had four players score in double figures, led by Ike Graham's 17 points on 8 of 10 shooting.

Bryce Hamilton led three UNLV (11-14, 8-10) players in double-figure scoring with 17 points.

STAT OF THE GAME: Both teams shot over 50 percent from the field, but the Cowboys made 10 3-pointers to just three for the Runnin' Rebels.

TURNING POINT: Wyoming used a 15-2 run early in the second half to take a 20-point lead (58-38) with 13 minutes to go. UNLV would get no closer than 10 points the rest of the way.

QUOTABLE: "We knew with how Wyoming spaces the floor offensively that we were going to have to do a great job not only guarding the dribble one-on-one, but also guarding the post one-on-one and then contesting the 3-point line. That's what we emphasized the last three days, that's what we worked on, and we didn't do a very good job with it tonight. They had everything going from the start. They had Graham Ike in the post and they started 4 for 5 from 3-point range and we were never able to string together enough stops to give ourselves a chance tonight." - UNLV head coach T.J. Otzelberger

NOTES:
- The game was a make up from the scheduled two-game series that was postponed earlier in the season. It was the lone regular-season meeting between the two teams.
- Edoardo Del Cadia scored a career-high 13 points for UNLV on 5 of 7 shooting. David Jenkins Jr. added 10 points and Mbacke Diong scored eight on 4 of 4 from the field.
- Three Runnin' Rebels fouled out (Diong, Jenkins Jr. and Moses Wood).
- Two Wyoming players made four 3-pointers each (Drake Jeffries scored 14 points on 4 of 6 3-pointers and Hunter Thompson had 12 on 4 of 7). Hunter Maldonado added 12 points with a game-high nine rebounds.
- Both teams started the game hot from the field: UNLV was 9 of 11 and Wyoming was 8 of 13. For the game, Wyoming shot 55.1% (27 of 49) and UNLV was 54.0% (27 of 50).
- Wyoming was 50% on 3-pointers (10 of 20), while UNLV was 23.1% (3 of 13).
- In the first half, UNLV was 1 of 7 on 3-pointers, while Wyoming was 6 of 10. The Cowboys led 43-34 at the break.
- UNLV has made at least one 3-pointer in a NCAA-record 1,127 straight games.

NEXT FOR THE RUNNIN' REBELS: UNLV will open play in the Mountain West Tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center as the No. 7 seed on Wednesday, March 10. The Runnin' Rebels will face 10th-seeded Air Force in the first round at 1:30 p.m.