My first UNLV game with my dad. I still have the program and pictures from it. I'll never forget this game. I got Stacey Augmons autograph among other afterwards. Thanks for posting!
I was a ball boy on the UNLV bench during this game!! Words haven't been invented yet to describe the memories the second I saw this post.. No one knew who Anthony Todd even was!! LOL
I was just reading about this game in The Basketball Hall of Shame (1991). Really tough to see on tape but at 1:14:52, UNLV's Richard Robinson, who was on the bench at the time, illegally taps the ball back inbounds, redirecting it to teammate Keith James and leading to a key bucket at the other end. Afterward, Robinson said both he and teammate Jarvis Basnight tried to tip the ball back inbounds. "But I beat him to it and knocked it back in to Keith."
Uh, what happened to the ending? I have a memory of one of the Rebel players chucking the ball high into the air after the final buzzer. My sister was a student at UNLV at the time and she got me and my dad front row tickets along the baseline right behind the UNLV cheerleaders. I was trying to find myself, but couldn't quite tell with the 1988 video quality!
Pennywise The Dancing Clown just going by my eye test I remember him being like Carmelo taking a lot of shots and missing a lot of shots. Nice first step and rise NO finish...so as a kid watching I couldn't figure out why he was such a big deal. I don't even remember him in the NBA.