The UNLV men’s basketball team lost its regular-season finale at UNR on Saturday night. The Rebels will be the No. 4 seed in the Mountain West tournament.
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The Rebels will face the Mountain West’s top offense on Saturday as they begin the second half of their conference schedule.
UNLV grabbed its first win of the Mountain West season by beating New Mexico despite missing two forwards due to injury.
The UNLV men’s basketball team lost to Loyola Marymount in the Jack Jones Classic on Saturday in the Rebels’ return to action after a prolonged layoff.
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 women’s basketball team received national letters of intent from two guards. The Rebels softball and men’s golf teams also added recruits.
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.
Keshon Gilbert, who spent two seasons at UNLV before entering the transfer portal in March, committed to Iowa State and former Rebels coach T.J. Otzelberger.
There certainly is merit in the heart UNLV showed Thursday under coach Kevin Kruger despite the unforgiving outcome that sabotaged an exhilarating comeback.
No. 7-seeded UNLV lost in overtime to No. 2 Boise State on Thursday, ending the Rebels’ Mountain West tournament run in the quarterfinals once again.
Junior center Desi-Rae Young scored 22 points and made two huge plays in the final minute to help UNLV extend its win streak to 14 by beating Fresno State.
UNLV will put its best start since 2010-11 on the line against Washington State in the first game of the Las Vegas Clash Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
UNLV men’s basketball commits Brooklyn Hicks and Rob Whaley Jr. signed with Rebels on Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period.
UNLV’s women’s basketball team is NCAA Tournament bound for the first time since 2002, courtesy of three wins in three days during the conference tournament at Thomas Mack Center.
Essence Booker scored 25 points and hit a clutch 3-pointer in the final minute to lift UNLV to the Mountain West women’s tournament title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.