Learning from a win is a little easier than learning from a loss.

And the Nevada basketball team has plenty to learn.

The Wolf Pack escaped with a 78-77 win over Pacific in front of 7,307 fans at Lawlor Events Center on Saturday.

The outcome was far from certain. The Tigers had two shots hit the rim and bounce off in the final seconds.

The crowd stood for the last five minutes and roared with every Pack shot and groaned with every turnover.

Nevada coach Steve Alford said the team's defense was terrible.

"I just didn't like our attention to detail, defensively," Alford said. "We were very fortunate they missed some point-blank shots, but at least our guys were battling at the rim. So there will be a lot of situationals in that last two or three minutes that we can look at film and lea

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