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Former New Mexico State and now UNLV basketball head coach Marvin Menzies holds the WAC Tournament Championship trophy at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas back in 2012.

by Jack Rieger

The UNLV basketball program just suffered through a week from hell.

On April 9, former Arkansas-Little Rock coach Chris Beard signed a five-year contract to coach for the Rebels. Seven days later, Beard bolted for the Texas Tech head coaching job, where his family lives and where he was an assistant coach for 10 years.