UNLV basketball coach Marvin Menzies was a happy man when he met with the media on Wednesday. The Rebels picked up a commitment from five-star center Brandon McCoy just the night before and then added Shakur Juiston and Amauri Hardy.
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UNLV basketball received the sort of news not usually expected from a team coming off the worst season in program history with the commitment of a five-star prospect.
Brandon McCoy, the No. 15 player in the nation, according to ESPN.com, and a McDonald’s All-American, tweeted Tuesday night that he had committed to UNLV.
Former UNLV star and NBA No. 1 overall draft pick Anthony Bennett is playing professionally in Turkey, hoping to earn another chance in the NBA. Two of his former coaches said they still believed in him.
While it’s always a pleasing sound for basketball coaches when a fax machine signals the impending arrival of a signed letter of intent, welcoming new players to your program in 2017 now comes with a hint of apprehension.
UNLV will try to bounce back from its worst season in the basketball program’s history, and this year’s recruiting class will play a major part. The spring signing period begins Wednesday.
The state’s congressmen wrote NCAA President Mark Emmert a letter asking the organization to rethink its sports betting policy and examine bringing championship events to Las Vegas.
Former UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice was named an assistant at Washington on Tuesday. Rice spent this past season as an assistant at UNR.
The opening chapter of how the Rebels went from a team under Lon Kruger that made four NCAA fields his last five years to one that just concluded the worst season in program history begins in 2011, when Nigel Williams-Goss was a sophomore at Findlay Prep.