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New Mexico State at NEVADA
WAC leading Nevada (23-5, 11-1 WAC) hosts second place New Mexico State (22-8, 9-3 WAC) on Thursday night at 8:05 p.m.  Nevada won the first meeting with the Aggies earlier this season in Las Cruces, N.M., 68-60.  Nevada has earned a share of the 2012 WAC Championship and the Aggies will be seeking to keep their chances of earning a piece of the title alive with a victory.  NMSU trails the Pack by two games with two remaining on the WAC schedule.  The game will air live on ESPN2.  The game is a Whiteout with the first 8,500 fans receiving a free shirt.

Thursday, 8:05 p.m. PT
New Mexico State Aggies
(22-8, 9-3 WAC)
at
NEVADA WOLF PACK
(23-5, WAC: 11-1)
Lawlor Events Center (11,536)

RADIO: University of Nevada Sports Network (KUUB 94.5 FM Reno; KPLY 630 AM Reno; KELY 1230 AM Ely; KWNA 1400 AM Winnemucca; and KSVL 92.3 FM Yerington)
Ryan Radtke (play-by-play), Len Stevens (analyst) – pregame starts at 7:30 p.m.
TELEVISION: ESPN2 – Dave Flemming (play-by-play), Miles Simon (analyst)
Live stats:    Live stats link
WEB STREAMING: NevadaWolfPack.tv
SERIES HISTORY: NMSU leads the series with Nevada 19-16.  The Wolf Pack won the first meeting this season 68-60 in Las Cruces, N.M. on Jan. 26.  In Reno the Pack holds an 11-6 advantage.  Since joining the WAC for the 2000-01 season, Nevada is 10-6 against the Aggies, 6-2 in Reno.
UP NEXT: Nevada closes out the regular season on Saturday hosting Louisiana Tech at 7:05 p.m. Seniors Dario Hunt and Olek Czyz will be honored.

ABOUT THE NEW MEXICO STATE AGGIES - The New Mexico State Aggies are 22-8 overall and 9-3 in Western Athletic Conference play under fifth-year head coach Marvin Menzies.  The Aggies are two games back of the Wolf Pack in second place in the conference standings with two games remaining on the conference schedule.  Menzies is 98-66 at NMSU and 50-26 in WAC play.
The Aggies boast three scorers averaging double figures and are led by the top scorer and rebounder in the conference in 6-6 senior forward Wendell McKines.  McKines averages a double-double scoring 18.4 points and grabs 10.5 rebounds per game.  From the field he is shooting 46 percent and 32.4 from behind the arc.  In the first meeting he scored 15 points and had eight rebounds.
Senior guard Hernst Laroche (6-1) is scoring 12.2 points per game and averages a team-high 3.7 assists per outing.  Laroche scored a game-high 21 points in the first meeting in Las Cruces.  Aggie senior Hamidu Rahman (6-11) is scoring 10.8 points per game and averages 6.2 rebounds which ranks eighth in the WAC.  Daniel Mullings, a 6-1 freshman guard is averaging nine points per game and was named WAC Player of the Week after averaging 19 points in two wins last week.  Mullings recorded a triple-double against Hawai`i finishing with 28 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
NMSU averages a WAC best 78.8 points per game and allows 68.3.  On the glass the Aggies outrebound opponents by 8.1 per game, 39.9-31.8.  From the field they shoot 47.7 percent and hold opponents to 42.6 percent shooting.  From behind the arc NMSU shoots 32.5 percent as do opponents.  The Aggies has attempted 923 free throws, 349 more than their opponents, 574.  NMSU is shooting 66.3 percent from the field.

LAST GAME: Nevada Earns A Piece Of WAC Title After Triple Overtime Thriller At Fresno State
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – Olek Czyz scored 25 points and Dario Hunt added 20 points and 15 rebounds as Nevada outlasted Fresno State 79-76 in triple overtime Saturday night.
Czyz’s putback with 55.3 seconds remaining in the third overtime and Deonte Burton’s free throws with 21.4 seconds left helped Nevada (23-5, 11-1 Western Athletic) clinch a share of the conference regular-season title.
Kevin Foster scored a career-high 20 points for Fresno State (13-17, 3-9), and Jonathan Wills added 19 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bulldogs inbounded the ball with 1.5 seconds left but couldn’t get off a shot before the final buzzer ended the 55-minute contest.
The game featured 19 ties and 32 lead changes.

TRIPLE OVERTIME NUMBERS - Nevada’s triple overtime game at Fresno State is just the second in the history for the Wolf Pack.  The first was a 58-57 loss to Montana State during the 1947-48 season.
Four of Nevada’s starters played career highs in minutes with senior forward Dario Hunt logging 53 of a possible 55 minutes in the game.  Olek Czyz (49), Malik Story (48) and Deonte Burton (45) each played 45 minutes or more.
Steven Shepp (53) and Tyler Johnson (52) each played over 50 minutes for the Bulldogs. When the game ended three FS players had fouled out and three others had four fouls.  No Pack player had fouled out but Czyz and Jerry Evans, Jr. had four each.  The FS bench scored 27 and Nevada’s Jordan Finn accounted for the Pack’s bench scoring one point in the first half.
The two teams combined to attempt 131 shots.  The Pack were 25-of-60 and FS went 25-of-71.  Nevada attempted 42 free throws and made 26.  The Bulldogs were good on 21-of-28 attempts.  There were 52 fouls called, 23 against the Wolf Pack and 29 were charge to FS.  The Pack grabbed 47 rebounds and FS 50.

THURSDAY WHITEOUT – Thursday’s game with New Mexico State is a Whiteout with the first 8,500 fans receiving a free shirt to turn Lawlor Events Center white for ESPN2.  Game time is set for 8:05 p.m.

NEVADA EARNS A SHARE OF ITS SIXTH WAC REGULAR SEASON TITLE - Nevada earned a share of its sixth Western Athletic Conference Championship after defeating Fresno State 79-76 in triple overtime last Saturday.  A win in either of last two games would earn the Pack its fourth outright title.
The Wolf Pack’s last title came in 2008.  The Pack has won six of the last nine WAC titles.  Head coach David Carter has been associated with all six, five as an assistant.
Of the previous five titles, two have were shared in 2004 and 2008.  The 2005, 2006, and 2007 titles were outright.

BALANCING ACT - Nevada has used a balanced scoring attack all season to post a 23-5 record.  The Pack is the only current WAC team that has four players averaging in double figures led by its backcourt duo of Deonte Burton and Malik Story.  Burton is scoring 15.3 points per game and Story 14.3.  The senior front court of Olek Czyz and Dario Hunt are averaging 13.7 and 10.3 points respectively.  The Pack’s fifth starter, Jerry Evans, Jr. is scoring 6.6 points per game.
At Hawai`i all five starters scored in double figures.  Burton led the way with 20 points with Story close behind with 19 points.  Czyz and Hunt each had 15 points while Evans scored all 13 of his points in the second half.
The five starters combine to average 60.1 of Nevada’s 71.1 points per game.  Of the 1,991 points scored this season 1,683 come from the Pack starters, 84.5 percent.  On the year 12 times four players scored in double digits and there was the one game of five reaching double digits at Hawai`i.

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Presidents and chancellors from 16 universities met in Dallas Sunday to discuss future conference membership plans and agreed to work on forming a new intercollegiate athletic association that would begin competition in the 2013-14 academic year.

This presidentially led association will ensure stability and be built upon the principles of operating at the highest level of integrity and sportsmanship, enhancing the student-athlete academic and competitive experience, bringing fiscal discipline into athletics and ensuring competitive fairness.

“This is an exciting development that will stabilize the current conferences and create the first truly national conference with members in five time zones and television viewership from coast to coast.  This partnership brings together like-minded institutions to improve the integrity and stability of intercollegiate athletics,” said UNLV President Neal Smatresk. “We are moving our plans forward rapidly and expect to complete our conversations in the near future. Look for further announcements soon as we work together on this exciting new venture.”

Universities involved in the discussions were the United States Air Force Academy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Colorado State University, East Carolina University, Fresno State, University of Hawaii, Marshall University, University of Nevada, University of New Mexico, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Rice University, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Texas at El Paso, Tulane University, The University of Tulsa and University of Wyoming. With the exception of Hawaii as a football only member, the participation would involve all sports.

The structure of the new conference will likely include:
• Membership of 18 to 24 universities
• National scope from the Atlantic Seaboard to Hawaii
• Championship football game format that includes semifinal match-ups
• Championship basketball tournament
• Regular season scheduling in divisions
• NCAA FBS affiliation
• Mechanisms to emphasize and improve academic standards and fiscal responsibility

The presidents and chancellors will have follow-up meetings over the next six months to fully develop the operational issues essential to the formation of the association.

Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics

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Camp Brochure

www.nevadawolfpack.com

The University of Nevada soccer program will hold a youth clinic for boys and girls ages 5-14, from April 10-12 at Mackay Stadium.

Training will begin each morning at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at noon.

The three-day event will give local-area youth players a chance to train on the pitch at Mackay alongside Wolf Pack players and coaches, including Nevada head coach Dr. Melissa Price.

All proceeds will benefit the Nevada Soccer program.

Complete registration information can be found in the attached brochure. You can also register online by clicking here.

For questions, call or email Nevada assistant coach Lauren McAdam at (775) 682-6934
or Lmcadam@unr.edu.

www.nevadawolfpack.com

RENO, Nev.—The Reno Aces and the University of Nevada baseball team will renew their annual exhibition contest at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3 at Aces Ballpark, with proceeds once again benefiting the Nevada Dugout Club, the entities jointly announced today.

The 2012 exhibition will mark the third-straight exhibition contest between Reno’s Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the NCAA Division I Wolf Pack. The Aces defeated Nevada 9-3 last season, on the heels of an 11-1 victory in the inaugural game in 2010.

In each of the last two seasons, the Aces have made a $15,000 donation to the University of Nevada Dugout Club, an organization that serves as the main fundraising body of the University of Nevada baseball team.

The game will serve as the final tune-up for the Aces before opening the 2012 season on April 5, while Nevada’s student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete against some of professional baseball’s top prospects at the Triple-A level.

Once again this season, the game will be played in an exhibition format, with Aces pitchers and catchers playing for both squads. All players will use wood bats, and the contest will last between seven and nine innings, depending on the status of the Aces pitching staff. Utilizing the traditional Minor League Spring Training format, pitchers will be placed on a pitch count, and should a pitcher reach his limit, the game will immediately proceed to the next half inning.

Tickets for the game are $14 for adults, $10 for college students and $7 for children 12 and younger and seniors 62 and older. Aces season-ticket holders will have the chance to purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $10, and will be eligible for an exclusive presale opportunity. Tickets may be purchased online at www.RenoAces.com beginning Monday, March 20 and at the Reno Aces Ticket Office on Saturday, March 10.

The Aces begin their defense of the Pacific North Division Championship on Thursday, April 5 at Aces Ballpark. All full and partial Aces season tickets are available now by calling (775) 334-4700. For up-to-date news and notes throughout the offseason, visit www.RenoAces.com, follow the club on Twitter (@aceball) or like the team on Facebook.

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Two junior college transfers and two prep products have enrolled in classes this semester at the University of Nevada, the Wolf Pack football program announced today.

Defensive backs Nigel Haikins and Markus Smith, both juniors, join the Wolf Pack from the junior college ranks while Reggie Coates and Andrew Main previously signed National Letters of Intent with Nevada in 2011 and delayed enrollment until the spring semester.

Haikins is 5-10 and 205 pounds and comes to Nevada from Diablo Valley College in the Bay Area. Smith is 6-1, 185 and joins the Pack from Riverside (Calif.) Community College.

Coates (Crespi HS; Canoga Park, Calif.) is a 6-1, 240-pound freshman defensive end while Main (Los Alamitos HS; Los Alamitos, Calif.) is a 6-3, 270-pound freshman offensive lineman.

More information on the players will be available along with the rest of the 2012 signing class, which will be announced Feb. 1

RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada has completed its 2012 non-conference football schedule with the addition of a home game against the University of South Florida, a member of the Big East Conference, the school announced Tuesday. The matchup is part of a two-game series between the teams as Nevada will play at South Florida in 2015.

Nevada will travel to face California on Sept. 1 to open the season and the Wolf Pack will then come home to Mackay Stadium to play host to South Florida (Sept. and Northwestern State (Sept. 15). After a bye week, Nevada will play at Texas State (Sept. 29) before beginning the Pack’s first ever Mountain West slate.

“USF has an outstanding football team that will present us with some unique challenges,” Nevada coach Chris Ault said. “They are well coached and have some quality players.  This is a game our fans won’t want to miss.”

This marks the sixth time since 2005 that Nevada has played host to a BCS conference school. Nevada has four wins against BCS school since the inception of the series in 1998.

This will be the first meeting between Nevada and USF. The Bulls went 5-7 in 2011 — their first non-winning season since 2004 — and are 13-12 under head coach Skip Holtz, who will be entering his third season in 2012.

“Nevada offers a difficult test for us,” Holtz said. “Offensively, they’ve been very productive under Coach Ault and they’ve had a lot of success as a team over the last few years. Going on the road and playing in a tough environment early in the season will give us an opportunity to see where we are and could help us as we move deeper into the schedule.”

The trip to Reno in 2012 will mark the third time in USF program history that it will play west of the Rocky Mountains. The Bulls traveled to San Diego to take on San Diego St. in 1999 and they also visited Utah in 2001.

The Mountain West portion of the schedule will be released in the coming months. Nevada will have four home games in league play as Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Wyoming will come to Mackay Stadium. The Wolf Pack’s conference road games will be against Air Force, Hawaii, New Mexico and UNLV.

Nevada Wolf Pack Football

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It turns out the bite of a wolf is mightier than the sting of a yellow jacket. University of Nevada mascot “Wolfie Jr.” is howling in celebration after capping off an undefeated season by knocking off Georgia Tech’s “Buzz” in the championship of the 10th annual Capital One Mascot Challenge. With the win he gets his claws on the $20,000 prize for his school’s mascot program.

A first-time participant, “Wolfie Jr.” had an undefeated regular season, scrapping past other irritable beasts including ferocious tigers, terrifying beavers and freaky-looking frogs. After advancing to the playoffs and making it through two rounds of single-elimination he entered the championship match against “Buzz” of Georgia Tech. Fans cast votes at www.CapitalOneBowl.com, on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MascotChallenge and via text voting throughout the 16-week program. Both mascots making the finals had an undefeated record and boasted some of the highest vote totals to date, making it one of the most anticipated match-ups ever in the animal kingdom.

“We are proud of what our students and community accomplished for `Wolfie Jr.’ and the University of Nevada,” said Dr. Marc Johnson, president of the University of Nevada. “Our campus has an extraordinary amount of spirit and pride and we’re pleased to showcase it on a national level.”

A record 45 million votes were cast during the season-long competition.

“This year’s competition was intense and each Mascot and school put up a ferocious fight,” said Marc Mentry, Senior Vice President of Advertising and Sponsorships at Capital One. “In the end, `Wolfie Jr.’ proved to be too tough.”

The entire 2011 Capital One All-America Mascot Team included:

Wilbur T. Wildcat of University of Arizona
Sparty of Michigan State University
Aubie of Auburn University
Mike the Tiger of Louisiana State University
Testudo of the University of Maryland
Wolfie Jr. of the University of Nevada
Hairy Dawg of the University of Georgia
Boomer of the University of Oklahoma
Brutus Buckeye of The Ohio State University
Big Blue of Old Dominion University
The Duck of the University of Oregon
Benny Beaver of Oregon State University
Buzz of Georgia Tech
SuperFrog of TCU
Cy of Iowa State
Big Red of Western Kentucky University

For school mascots who are not on the All-America team, the Capital One Mascot Challenge also includes an annual “write-in” campaign at the program web site, www.CapitalOneBowl.com. The write-in winner this year is “Herbie Husker” of the University of Nebraska, who formerly won the 2005 Capital One Mascot Challenge title. He earns $1,000 toward the University of Nebraska mascot program and a position on the 2012 Capital One All-America Mascot Team, pending an official nomination from his school. Nebraska earned an invitation to the Capital One Bowl game and “Herbie Husker” will be in attendance in Orlando to cheer on his team and meet national champion, “Wolfie Jr.”

“Wolfie Jr.” is joining an elite group of mascots that have held the Capital One National Mascot of the Year title over the past 10 years. Past winners include: “Monty” of University of Montana (2002, 2004), “Cocky” of University of South Carolina (2003), “Herbie Husker” of University of Nebraska (2005), “Butch T. Cougar” of Washington State University (2006), “Zippy” of University of Akron (2007), “Cy” of Iowa State University (2008), “Bearcat” of University of Cincinnati (2009) and defending champion “Big Blue” of Old Dominion University (2010). Throughout the college football season, fans have enjoyed viewing custom videos created for each mascot portraying their entertaining back stories. Fans can continue watching these videos at: www.CapitalOneBowl.com and www.Facebook.com/MascotChallenge.

Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics

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The Nevada Fight Song

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

We’ll give a long cheer for NEVADA’s team,
See them break through again,
Fighting for our own U of N to victory.

N – E – V – A – D – A
NEVADA!

The Law of the Jungle

“The Law of the Jungle” is a poem from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. It is recited before each home football and basketball game in a chant led by the student section.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back –
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The chorus is followed by a wolf’s howl played over the stadium sound system and echoed throughout the venue by the fans in attendance.

The Blue Crew

One of Nevada’s youngest traditions, the Blue Crew was a student booster organization that debuted in the 2003-04 academic year. The crew was started as a way to bring out the spirit of the Silver and Blue in current students. As many of the teams began to claim, or re-claim for some, success and glory, it become necessary for the students to organize under a single banner to show their undying support for the Pack.

The Blue Crew gets bonuses, as in a frequent flyer program. Each member presents an ID and garners points for coming to events. They get free Blue Crew T-shirts from Pepsi (the university’s soft drink supplier) and swipe cards for discounts at area stores.

Painting the “N”

Hillside letters are a common site in the Western U.S. and on the side of Peavine Peak proudly sits the “N” of Nevada. Every fall during the football season, a group of avid supporters and student make the trek up the hill to add a fresh coat of paint to the “N.”

The Fremont Cannon

The Fremont Cannon – one of college football’s largest and most expensive “trophies” – is now over 30 years old and is the prize sought after when two in-state rivals, The University of Nevada and UNLV, meet each fall in football.

Nevada’s two university football teams annually play for the right to house the mountain howitzer each season. Today’s cannon is a replica of a gun that accompanied Captain John C. Fremont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843-44.

The replica cannon was reconstructed in 1970 as the gift of the Nevada Mines Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation to the students of the two campuses of the University of Nevada. It was built from engineering and technical drawings from the military archives of the United States Army.

Bill Ireland, a 1952 Nevada alumnus who was UNLV’s first football coach, deserves credit for connecting athletics boosters on each end of the state with Howard Winn, Kennecott general manager in White Pine County. Ireland, a McGill native, was able to sell Winn on the idea along with Wolf Pack boosters such as Bill Parish, a 1945 alumnus who played for the Wolf Pack in the early 1940s.

“One of the things I sold Kennecott on was that if they supported it, this would truly become a statewide trophy, including the cow counties,” said Ireland, who coached baseball and football at Nevada before a distinguished career as head football coach and later athletic director at UNLV.

The Wolf Pack won the first game between the universities in 1969, but the Rebels were the first team to capture the cannon in 1970 by a score of 42-20. The winner is allowed to paint the cannon its school colors while it has possession of it.

“It’s the most symbolic “trophy” for winning a state championship in the country and as much a part of the football tradition as the game itself,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said. “The Fremont Cannon is such a monumental trophy that we built a spot for it when we built Cashell Fieldhouse in the 1980′s.”

Today, the cannon resides in its “home” in the renovated Cashell Football Center. A special alcove was reserved for the cannon when renovations were completed a couple of years ago. More on the Fremont Cannon.

Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics

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The Wolf Pack

The Nevada Wolf Pack, one of only two teams nationally to use the designation (North Carolina State is the other, though they use Wolfpack as one word while Nevada uses two words with a capital ‘P’), has been using the Wolf Pack designation since at least the early 1920s.

Nevada’s first athletic teams in the late 1890s and early 1900s were referred to as the Sagebrushers or even the Sage Hens after Nevada’s state flowering plant, the sagebrush. There are references in print to the ‘Sage Warriors’, although none of these names were the official mascot of Nevada’s athletic teams.

In the 1921-22 athletic season, a local writer described the spirited play of a Nevada team as a ‘pack of wolves’. The name stuck and soon almost every reference to the athletic teams was the Nevada Wolves. In 1923, the students officially designated ‘Wolves’ as the school’s mascot.

Since all teams are a group of players, the word pack followed quickly. In 1928-29, the Nevada student handbook referred to the athletic teams as Wolf Pack and two school songs were adopted, entitled ‘The Wolf Pack’ and ‘Here Comes the Wolf Pack’.

The Nevada Fight Song

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

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