Five players to watch when the UNLV basketball team plays at Southern Utah at 6 p.m. PST Wednesday and at Arizona State at 5 p.m. PST Saturday.
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Former UNLV basketball player Bryce Dejean-Jones was killed early Saturday after he broke into a Dallas apartment he believed belonged to his child’s mother and instead startled a man who shot him in apparent self-defense, The Dallas Morning News and ESPN reported.
Coppin State transfer Christian Kessee, who went to Valley High School, would like to play basketball for UNLV. But he is waiting to see how much interest new coach Marvin Menzies has in him.
UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy can’t wait to share new coach Chris Beard with the world. But she wants the process to play out first, which means finalizing the contract through the legal process and getting it approved by the University of Nevada Board of Regents, which likely will be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
UNLV has found yet another person to coach the men’s basketball team.
UNLV officials were spurned by Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin last week to start a wild sequence of events. It became clear Sunday night that UNLV’s latest top candidate was Beard after New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies pulled out of the race.
Chris Beard’s head coaching stops include time at community colleges in Seminole State and Fort Scott, a level that demands coaches travel to places far and wide and often unknown to discover players.
Bob Knight crossed paths with Chris Beard, the head coach at Seminole State College in Oklahoma. It’s not easy to make a big impression on Bob Knight, but Beard did.
Musiette McKinney from The Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach heard that Chris Beard, the Arkansas-Little Rock basketball coach, was in town to interview for the UNLV job that Cincinnati’s Mick Cronin didn’t want and she was so excited.
UNLV 7-foot freshman Stephen Zimmerman Jr. officially announced Monday on Twitter that he is declaring himself eligible for the NBA Draft.
Five takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 79-74 victory over Wyoming on Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Last summer, UNLV senior basketball players Aley Rohde and Amie Callaway — the only two upperclassmen on the Lady Rebels — went to a bunch of sentimental movies together.
After spending the two previous days as a spectator at UNLV’s basketball practice, Jerome Seagears didn’t even do much at Saturday’s pregame shootaround.
On the January evening Dave Rice was fired just three games into the Mountain West schedule, as unprecedented a move as you will find in college basketball, he looked UNLV’s seniors in the eyes and promised they would see him again.
Five takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 87-77 victory over Boise State on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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