For the fourth straight season, the UNLV athletic division has clinched the Silver State Series all-sport competition towards rival Nevada.
UNLV has now received 11 out of the 14 competitions between the colleges because the sequence was launched in 2012 by then-Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, who’s now UNR’s president. Originally named the Governor’s Series, this competition established a proper head-to-head athletic and tutorial problem between the longtime rivals, the one two Division I departments in Nevada. It was rebranded the Silver State Series in 2018.
UNLV earned six factors Thursday after profitable the Mountain West ladies’s golf championships (Nevada was fifth) and watching Wolf Pack ladies’s tennis fall within the MW Championship quarterfinal, securing the three factors earned from the Rebels’ regular-season win over the Wolf Pack.
UNLV has clinched this yr’s championship with 15 factors nonetheless to be awarded. The Rebels maintain an insurmountable 25.5-7.5 lead. Here is a breakdown of the factors awarded up to now:
UNLV wins (24 factors): Volleyball (received 3-1); soccer (received 42-17); ladies’s basketball (received 62-57 and 81-64); soccer (received 2-1); ladies’s golf (completed first; Nevada was fifth); ladies’s swimming and diving (received common season and championship); males’s tennis (received 4-0); ladies’s tennis (received 4-0)
Nevada wins (six factors): Women’s cross nation (completed eighth; UNLV was eleventh); ladies’s indoor observe and discipline (completed second; UNLV was tenth)
Split (1.5 factors every): Men’s basketball (each groups went 1-1)
To be awarded (15 factors): Baseball, softball, outside observe and discipline, males’s golf, Academic Progress Report
UNLV may nonetheless publish probably the most lopsided win in Silver State Series historical past, which was the primary all-sport battle between the departments in 2012-13 when the Rebels earned a 37.5-10.5 edge. The most factors UNLV may end with this season is 39.5. If the groups had been tied, the tiebreaker is the Fremont Cannon winner, which the Rebels have claimed for 4 straight seasons with a soccer win over the Wolf Pack.
UNLV received the primary 4 Silver State Series earlier than issues evened out with either side claiming three titles over a six-year interval from 2016-17 to 2021-22. After Nevada’s back-to-back wins from 2020-22, UNLV has received the final 4, with this yr’s hole doubtlessly one of many largest in sequence historical past.
Nevada and UNLV are two of the six full-time MW members that may stay within the league for the 2026-27 season because the convention loses 5 colleges to the Pac-12. The different colleges remaining within the MW embrace Air Force, New Mexico, Wyoming and San Jose State whereas Hawaii transitions from a football-only affiliate to a full member.
Here are the all-time Silver State Series outcomes.
Silver State Series outcomes
2013: UNLV 37.5, Nevada 10.5
2014: UNLV 30, Nevada 18
2015: UNLV 27, Nevada 21
2016: UNLV 28.5, Nevada 19.5
2017: Nevada 24, UNLV 24 (Wolf Pack received tiebreaker)
2018: UNLV 27, Nevada 21
2019: UNLV 34.5, Nevada 13.5
2020: UNLV 13.5, Nevada 13.5 (Rebels received tiebreaker)
2021: Nevada 24, UNLV 21
2022: Nevada 30, UNLV 18
2023: UNLV 31.5, Nevada 16.5
2024: UNLV 27, Nevada 21
2025: UNLV 27, Nevada 21
2026: UNLV 25.5, Nevada 7.5 (15 factors nonetheless to be awarded)