The UNLV’s men’s basketball team won its first road game of the season Friday, securing a victory over Pepperdine in Malibu, California.
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Anderson Hunt, a standout on UNLV’s 1990 national title team, will be honored Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center during the Rebels’ game against Stetson.
It was an egregious, reprehensible, deplorable, humiliating, inconceivable, embarrassing loss for UNLV’s once-proud men’s basketball program. But it’s only one loss.
The UNLV men’s basketball team fell flat in its season opener against Southern on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNLV opens its basketball season Wednesday against Southern University at the Thomas & Mack Center. It’s the Rebels’ most talented team under coach Kevin Kruger.
The UNLV men’s basketball team was picked to finish sixth in the annual preseason Mountain West poll released Thursday. One Rebel garnered a preseason honor.
Voting the Lady Rebels first were the conference’s coaches and media members, who assigned them 24 of 27 possible first-place votes.
Having relocated in September 2022 from the Ivory Coast to Las Vegas, Pape N’Diaye, a four-star center for Trinity International School, announced his commitment to UNLV.
Liberty graduate and top recruit Dedan Thomas Jr. joins an experienced roster on UNLV men’s basketball coach Kevin Kruger’s most talented team to date.
Shawn Marion, 45, is back in Las Vegas this week for the retired NBA players’ annual Summer Getaway, returning to the city in which he starred before his 16-year career.
The commitment of Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. and signings of veteran transfers have given the Rebels a real opportunity to play with the best in the Mountain West.
Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. announced Sunday that he is committing to UNLV, choosing the Rebels over Arizona, Florida, Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA.
UNLV senior center David Muoka entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Wednesday, becoming the fourth player to leave the program since the 2022-23 season concluded.
UNLV lost its second player in two days, as sophomore guard Keshon Gilbert is entering the transfer portal. He started 29 games and averaged 11.4 points this season.
UNLV freshman guard Keyshawn Hall is leaving the program. The Cleveland native averaged 5.4 points and 10.8 minutes in 18 games this season.