Players on the men’s basketball team will receive a $500 per month car allowance for a year through Findlay Toyota, Blueprint Sports announced Tuesday.
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Oklahoma forward Victor Iwuakor transfers to UNLV, gives Rebels three new players from Big 12, joining West Virginia’s Jordan McCabe and Texas’ Royce Hamm.
The Rebels are in seventh place in the league standings and can finish no lower than that.
Bryce Hamilton, who averages 18.3 points, has missed three of the past five games with an ankle injury and remains day to day. UNLV hosts Air Force on Saturday and Monday.
David Jenkins Jr. scored 25 points and UNLV men’s basketball won its first game of the season.
Second-ranked Stanford went on an 11-0 run to start the game and maintained control the entire way in an easy victory over UNLV.
Guard Caleb Grill has a long relationship with UNLV coach T.J. Otzelberger. He originally signed with South Dakota State when Otzelberger was the Jackrabbits’ coach.
UNLV coach T.J. Otzelberger refused to blame the Rebels’ 67-61 loss to Boise State on Thursday in the Mountain West tournament on the absence of injured Elijah Mitrou-Long.
Fourth-seeded UNLV rallied from 11 points down to twice cut the deficit to two, but never caught up in a loss to No. 5 Boise State on Thursday.
UNLV athletic events and the ongoing Mountain West men’s basketball tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center are going on as scheduled.