Marvin Menzies is increasingly relying on a 2-3 matchup zone as the Rebels struggle defensively with man, and expect him to continue to use it as the basketball season progresses.
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Here are five players to watch in the UNLV basketball team’s game at New Mexico at 6 p.m. PST Tuesday.
The Brooklyn Nets waived former No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett on Monday.
After a week off, the Runnin’ Rebels are back on the court Saturday to face Duke at T-Mobile Arena.
UNLV is a 20½-point underdog when it plays Duke at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at T-Mobile Arena. The Rebels have many challenges in going against the nation’s most talented basketball team.
The UNLV Runnin’ Rebels and the Duke Blue Devils meet again on Saturday for the first time in 25 years. Here’s a look at their history.
Nikki Wheatley and Dakota Gonzalez each had a double-double to help UNLV to a 68-61 victory over Pepperdine in a nonconference women’s basketball game Friday in Malibu, California.
Five players to watch when the UNLV basketball team plays Duke at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
Duke and UNLV have taken separate, very different journeys through the college landscape since that Final Four game in 1991, when Bobby Hurley as the Blue Devils point guard helped guide his team to an upset that was viewed as improbable as it was historic.
It’s probably too early to try to predict the final field of 68 for the 2017 NCAA Tournament. Strike that. It’s definitely too early.
The preparation now is for three exhibition games in a popular cruise-ship stop. But the work that probably will define how UNLV fares under first-year coach Marvin Menzies began in earnest last month.
Ben Coupet, a 6-foot 7-inch forward from Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy, signs letter of intent to play basketball at UNLV.
UNLV officially has its coach and you couldn’t have hoped for a better opening message from him, one about building and winning and sustaining a level of success all the right ways, that the goal is not to get things done quickly but rather correctly.
UNLV found itself down to three scholarship players and two walk-ons on the floor in the third overtime. But the Rebels found a way today.
Several times a hero in March, Steve Alford is a goat this time. The UCLA coach leaned back in his chair, rolled his eyes and watched his team get rocked by rival Southern California for the third time this season.
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