Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun
Then UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger, center, talks with Bob Mendenhall, owner and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Paving, and his wife Paula during a news conference announcing a new basketball practice facility at UNLV Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The center, built with donated funds, will be named after the Mendenhall family who are major donors in the project.
Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 | 11:51 a.m.
Mendenhall Center to open
KSNV coverage of the scheduled opening of the Mendenhall Center, a new training facility for the UNLV basketball team.
Attention UNLV basketball fans: Here’s your chance to get a tour of the Rebels’ new state-of-the-art practice facility.
The Mendenhall Center will be open 1 p.m. to 3 Jan. 28 for a free public tour, giving fans a look at the three-level, 38,000 square foot facility.
The facility, which is located on the UNLV campus, adjacent to the Cox Pavilion and the Thomas & Mack Center, includes two basketball courts, an academic area and film room, locker rooms, athletic training, strength and conditioning, and equipment areas.
The $11.7 million building was privately funded led primarily by donor Bob Mendenhall, and Maury Gallagher, Bill Paulos, Bill Wortman and Hope Anstett.
At 4 p.m. next Thursday, there will be an invitation-only dedication of the facility. That will be followed by the Governor’s BBQ at 5:30 p.m. at the Cox Pavilion. Tickets for the dinner, which includes Gov. Brian Sandavol and UNLV President Neal Smatresk, are $100. Greg Anthony, the starting point guard on the Rebels’ 1990 national championship team, will be the keynote speaker.
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