Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Men's Basketball Season Opener vs. Montana Tech


Nevada men’s basketball game on Monday against Montana Tech was anything but exciting and fun. Although only a preseason game, it was the first game for the Wolf Pack for their 2013-2014 season. 

A good amount of students showed up for the game, easily filling the student section and entire lower half of the arena, but by the fourth quarter the seats were almost all empty. The Pack easily led the entire game winning with a score of 98-57. 

However, when watching the game the Pack didn’t look any better than last year’s team. This may have been because they were playing down to the level of an NAIA school but I expected more from the team. We could have easily dominated and broke 100 points. But we didn't. 

When our football team plays top 10 schools, the high-ranked football teams don’t hold back and usually completely dominate us (in 2011 Oregon ran over Nevada with a final score of 69-20 after playing their third strings most of the game).

The fact that Nevada had two turnovers in 15 minutes against a school with less than 3,000 students is slightly embarrassing.

Nevada was clearly the better team but should have played on their level, not down with Montana Tech Diggers.

I would have liked to see the Wolf Pack run all over Montana Tech and prove why we are a D1 school and compete against top basketball names in our league like UNLV and BYU. 

It would be fun for Nevada to have opened their season by playing a big school outside of our league.

Maybe next pre-season.

On a lighter note, lets take a look at the halftime performance brought to you by two struggling Nevada fans attempting to play the game of memory. The video shows only the last minute of the long and frustrating game that took the two adults the entire half time (almost 20 minutes).


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