RebelRobert Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 On 8/17/2024 at 3:38 PM, rebelcuff said: I hope you are right. If he doesn't make the tournament this year I don't see how they bring him back. UNLV NCAA NET Rankings 2020-21: #189 2021-22: #97 2022-23: #94 2023-24: #74 Now lets imagine the Rebels have a great year and finish #47 in the NCAA NET Rankings in 2024-25. They finish tied for fourth in the MWC and lose in the MWC Semis. They are a bubble NCAA Team that barely misses out on the tournament. Maybe an injury or two cost us late in the year and we lost a game or two we shouldn’t have. They earn a high seed in the NIT and make a deep NIT run. Are you really suggesting under this scenario that a young up and coming coach who just won 23 or 24 games and made a deep NIT run should be fired??? Right when he is turning the program around and has done a fantastic job to resurrect a dead and buried basketball team? Kruger has built us a Top 50 NCAA NET Team this year that will compete with anyone in the country on a given night. We have a talented team that will fight for a MWC Championship. If things go right we will be in the NCAA Tournament, worst case for us at this point is an NIT invite. That is a nice place to be considering where we were just a few short years ago. We are back and in the mix where we all want the program to be. Wins bring better players! We are winning. Kruger isn’t going anywhere. UNLV NET will continue to improve and the talent on the team will only get better in the coming years. Stability will bring us strength and that will bring us wins that we all want. This thing is fixed. Kevin fixed it! From now on all we have to do as fans is sit back and enjoy the ride. We are going to win a lot of games and beat a lot of good teams! I prayed for a team like we have now just a few years ago, I never thought we would be this good so fast. This team is solid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebelcuff Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 On 8/17/2024 at 6:47 PM, RebelRobert said: UNLV NCAA NET Rankings 2020-21: #189 2021-22: #97 2022-23: #94 2023-24: #74 Now lets imagine the Rebels have a great year and finish #47 in the NCAA NET Rankings in 2024-25. They finish tied for fourth in the MWC and lose in the MWC Semis. They are a bubble NCAA Team that barely misses out on the tournament. Maybe an injury or two cost us late in the year and we lost a game or two we shouldn’t have. They earn a high seed in the NIT and make a deep NIT run. Are you really suggesting under this scenario that a young up and coming coach who just won 23 or 24 games and made a deep NIT run should be fired??? Right when he is turning the program around and has done a fantastic job to resurrect a dead and buried basketball team? Kruger has built us a Top 50 NCAA NET Team this year that will compete with anyone in the country on a given night. We have a talented team that will fight for a MWC Championship. If things go right we will be in the NCAA Tournament, worst case for us at this point is an NIT invite. That is a nice place to be considering where we were just a few short years ago. We are back and in the mix where we all want the program to be. Wins bring better players! We are winning. Kruger isn’t going anywhere. UNLV NET will continue to improve and the talent on the team will only get better in the coming years. Stability will bring us strength and that will bring us wins that we all want. This thing is fixed. Kevin fixed it! From now on all we have to do as fans is sit back and enjoy the ride. We are going to win a lot of games and beat a lot of good teams! I prayed for a team like we have now just a few years ago, I never thought we would be this good so fast. This team is solid! Eventually you have to make the tournament. Only two teams in the conference has a longer tourney drought San Jose and Air Force. That has to end. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelRobert Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 On 8/17/2024 at 7:09 PM, rebelcuff said: Eventually you have to make the tournament. Only two teams in the conference has a longer tourney drought San Jose and Air Force. That has to end. It will. When we get back to the Tourney we will get there with a solid team that can actually win. Coming very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwelish Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 On 8/5/2024 at 10:18 PM, Rosegreen said: Probably go 9-2 or 8-3. Creighton/Dayton probably Ls and the AZ mini tournament probably have an L as well. Nov. 4 — vs. Alabama State Nov. 9 — vs. Memphis Nov. 14 — vs. Omaha Nov. 20 — vs. Pepperdine Nov. 23 — vs. New Mexico State Nov. 28 — vs. Mississippi State (at Phoenix) Nov. 29 — vs. Butler/Northwestern (at Phoenix) Dec. 7 — at Creighton Dec. 14 — vs. Pacific Dec. 17 — at Dayton Dec. 21 — vs. UC Riverside 7-4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwelish Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 New recruit. UNLV beat out a pretty underwhelming list of teams. Just hope they got a gem early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
