The UNLV men’s basketball team’s season will continue after the Rebels received a bid to the National Invitation Tournament. They open play Wednesday.
Basketball
The UNLV women’s basketball team learned its first-round opponent for the NCAA Tournament. The Lady Rebels are making their third straight appearance.
The UNLV men’s basketball team lost to rival UNR and saw its five game winning-streak snapped Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The UNLV women’s basketball team started fast and never looked back, controlling the paint at both ends of a blowout win against Air Force on Saturday.
Now that the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas is behind us, it’s time for college basketball and the incredibly stacked Mountain West to get their due.
The UNLV’s men’s basketball team won its first road game of the season Friday, securing a victory over Pepperdine in Malibu, California.
Friday’s NCAA Tournament loss concludes the careers of Justice Ethridge, Essence Booker and Keyana Wilfred, who helped lead UNLV back to national prominance.
Essence Booker scored 16 points in her final game for UNLV, but Michigan’s size proved too much as the Lady Rebels lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Playing in his first Mountain West game, freshman Keyshawn Hall scored 19 points in UNLV’s loss to Utah State on Tuesday at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah.
UNLV built an 11-point lead Saturday over San Francisco at Thomas Mack Center, but fell 75-73 to lose for the first time this season.
UNLV almost fell to Division II Hawaii Hilo, a needed wake-up call ahead of its lone Power Five matchup of the nonconference season Sunday against Oklahoma State.
UNLV is confident after upsetting No. 21 Dayton, but remains wary of High Point’s potent offense as the Rebels try to extend their undefeated start to the season.
Robert Whaley, a 6-foot, 6-inch forward from the College of Southern Idaho with roots in Utah, announced a commitment to UNLV Monday.
Five Rebels scored in double figures as they cruised past the University of Calgary 104-74 Wednesday night in the second game of their Canadian tour.
Dick Calvert was UNLV’s public-address announcer for 52 years, and he was on the microphone for multiple other Las Vegas events. He also was an announcer at three World Cups.