5 takeaways from the Rebels loss at UNR

5 takeaways from the Rebels loss at UNR

UNLV‘s Derrick Jones, Jr. injures his ankle after a collision with a referee during a men‘s college basketball game against Nevada in Reno, Nev., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. Jones did return to the game. Cathleen Allison/Las Vegas Review-JournalFive takeaways from the UNLV basketball team's 65-63 loss at UNR on Saturday:

1. This is who the Rebels are. They will have games where they look as strong as any team in the Mountain West. And then there will be inexplainable losses like this one.

2. Firing coach Dave Rice on Jan. 10 makes even less sense now than it did at the time. UNLV played the same kind of tentative game against the Wolf Pack that it did in…