Nevada took care of business by sweeping the bottom three teams in the Mountain West.
Now the Wolf Pack prepares for a tough stretch, starting with a rematch against Utah State on Wednesday in a Mountain West Conference men’s basketball game.
Nevada improved to 3-4 in conference (11-7 overall) after beating San José State 75-64 on Saturday.
Nevada travels to Logan, Utah to play Utah State at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The Aggies beat the Wolf Pack 69-64 on New Year’s Eve in Reno.
The Aggies (16-2, 6-1 MW) are coming off a 65-62 loss to UNLV on Wednesday, which ended their six-game winning streak.
6 p.m. in Logan, Utah.
The Wolf Pack-Aggies game will be broadcast on TV on FS1 and on the radio at 95.5 FM.
Nick Davidson leads the Wolf Pack in scoring at 15.6 points per game, followed by Kobe Sanders at 14.7 and Tre Coleman at 9.1.
Davidson is also the Pack’s leading rebounder at 7.0 per game.
Ian Martinez leads the Aggies in scoring at 16.7 points per game, followed by Mason Falsev at 15.9.
Nevada is No. 68 in the current NCAA NET Rankings while Utah State is No. 41.
In the KenPom rankings, Utah State is No. 50 and Nevada is No. 65.
The Aggies are one of 11 Division I teams with 16 or more wins, and one of nine with two or fewer losses.
The Aggies received 38 votes in this week’s AP Top 25 Poll. Utah State also received 26 votes in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, the fifth team outside the rankings.
The Aggies are 9-1 at home this year, and have won 37 of their past 41 games in the Spectrum going back to the 2022-23 season.
This will be the 69th all-time meeting between Utah State and Nevada, a series which began in 1935.
The Aggies lead the series 42-26, including a 24-7 record over the Wolf Pack in Logan. The Aggies have won seven of the past 10 meetings.
Men’s Basketball Standings
Through Jan. 20 (conference, overall)
A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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