Nevada will try to pick up its first conference win in a place the Wolf Pack basketball team has struggled.

Nevada (8-4 overall, 0-1 MW) travels to Laramie, Wyoming to face the Cowboys (7-5, 0-1) at 1 p.m. Saturday. To pick up a win, they’ll need to continue their hot shooting and find a way to slow down Wyoming’s Obi Agbim.

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Nevada is coming off a 66-64 loss to Colorado State. The Cowboys are coming off a win over Cal State Fullerton, 73-69. Nevada has not won in Laramie since February 25, 2020 —that one a 73-68 win.

Nevada is shooting 49.6 percent from the field and 41.6 percent from 3-point range, leading the MW in both. The Pack ranks fifth in the nation from behind the arc.

Nevada is grabbing 34.7 rebounds per game to rank ninth in the conference.

Kobe Sanders leads the Wolf Pack in scoring at 15.2 points per game. He is shooting 44.7 percent from behind the arc with 17 makes. Nick Davidson adds 15 points per game and leads the team with 6.4 rebounds per night. He is shooting 53.6 percent from the field. Tre Coleman adds 9.3 points per game and is second on the team with 50 assists behind 56 from Sanders. The Cowboys are shooting 47.1 percent from the field and allowing opponents to shoot 42.8 percent. Wyoming is shooting 34.3 percent from behind the arc with 7.6 makes per game.

The Cowboys are led in scoring by Obi Agbim at 18.9 points per night, second in the MW and No. 39 in the nation. He ranks second in the MW shooting 53.7 percent from the field and leads the conference shooting 47.8 percent from behind the arc. Kobe Newton adds 10.2 points per game and Jordan Nesbitt adds 9.9 points per game. He leads the team with 8.4 rebounds per game for fourth in the MW.

The series

The Cowboys lead the all-time series 21-10 with Nevada with the first meeting coming back in 1938. The Cowboys hold a 13-5 lead in the series in Laramie.

Coming up

• Dec. 31, Utah State at Nevada, 7 p.m.
• Jan. 3 at New Mexico, 8 p.m.
• Jan. 11 at Fresno State, 4 p.m.
• Jan. 14, Air Force at Nevada, 7 p.m.
• Jan. 18, San Jose State at Nevada, 3 p.m.
• Jan. 22 at Utah State, 6 p.m.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – The report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that nationally, more than 770,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024.

Among the most concerning trends was a nearly 40% rise in family homelessness.

Here in Nevada more than 10,000 homeless people were counted, which is an increase from 8,600 last year.

“It’s very terrifying,” says Marie Baxter, CEO of Catholic Charities.

“On a daily basis we can see upwards of 100 individuals, seniors, families, people who are coming in and most often what they’re asking for is some form of rental assistance,” says Baxter. “They’re facing eviction, their rents have gone up, or they’ve had a change in their circumstances.”

Baxter says that they have seen an increase in homeless grandparents, who are stepping up to take care of their grandchildren:

“A lot of grandparents are raising their grandchildren and they’re on a fixed income to start… They were barely getting by as it was, but now their food bills have gone up because they’re feeding their grandchildren, or their nieces or their nephews,” says Baxter.

HUD reports also look to blame soaring rents, and the end of pandemic assistance and officials also say the Maui fires and other natural disasters contributed to the rise.

However, homelessness among veterans dropped nearly 8% nationwide to an all-time low.

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Las Vegas Hells Angels motorcycle club members accused of targeting a rival club in a Henderson highway shooting can be prosecuted as gang members under state law, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The 2022 Memorial Day shooting on Interstate 11 — which Clark County prosecutors alleged targeted Vagos Motorcycle Club members — injured seven people.

Addressing that case, the higher court ruled that there was enough probable cause to classify the Hells Angels as a criminal gang.

Indicted Hells Angels members included local chapter President Richard Devries.

District Court Judge Tierra Jones in 2023 dismissed some of the charges the suspects were facing, including racketeering, gang enhancements and 20 of 25 shooting-related counts.

Jones had sided with defense attorneys who had argued that the indictment failed to properly specify which defendants engaged in alleged racketeering activities.

Police told a grand jury that investigators recovered 25 spent bullets on the highway.

Jones noted that prosecutors only presented evidence from a witness who testified that one of the suspects fired five rounds.

Defense attorneys countered that the state failed to consider exculpatory evidence that some of the Vagos members had guns and that one of the indicted suspects, Rayann Mollasgo, had also been shot.

‘Criminal gang’

“We conclude that this was an error because the State presented at least slight or marginal evidence to support a reasonable inference that Hells Angels members commonly engage in felony-level violence directed at rival motorcycle clubs, such that that group constitutes a criminal gang,” Supreme Court justices wrote in their ruling.

Added the higher court: “Because the District Court substantially erred in dismissing the gang enhancement, we reverse and remand.”

The other Hells Angels members indicted were Stephen Alo, Russell Smith, Aaron Chun, Cameron Treich and Taylor Rodriguez.

After Jones’ ruling, they still were facing 17 charges, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Roneric Padilla, who also was indicted, was charged with accessory to commit a felony.

The Vagos group was returning to Las Vegas from Hoover Dam in a ride commemorating the holiday when Hells Angels motorcyclists rode behind the victims, according to prosecutors, who allege the Vagos were ambushed.

The suspects broke up the victims’ group and then shot at individual riders, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors alleged that the shooting might have been in retaliation for a California shooting that killed a Hells Angels motorcyclist, an accusation challenged by Vagos members during a grand jury hearing.

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Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez at rtorres@reviewjournal.com.