The college basketball transfer portal has been open for almost a month, and while news has been slow to trickle out of Maryland Parkway, UNLV coach Kevin Kruger and his staff have been ...
The 2023-24 college basketball season concluded Monday with UConn’s victory over Purdue in the national championship game, but it already feels like the offseason has been going on forever. UNLV coaches especially ...
Brennan Marion is in the driver’s seat. As UNLV wraps spring practice and prepares to host its scrimmage showcase Saturday at Allegiant Stadium, the team’s ...
Everyone loves a returning hometown hero, including the UNLV basketball program. Last year, the team added Las Vegas native Jalen Hill as an offseason transfer after the former Clark High product spent four years at Oklahoma. The prior offseason, it was Isaiah Cottrell boomeranging back to Las Vegas following two years at West Virginia. Will UNLV coach Kevin Kruger stick with the second-time-around ...
After Wednesday’s season-ending loss at Seton Hall in the NIT quarterfinals, the consensus among UNLV players, coaches, and even fans was that 2023-24 was a successful campaign. The team developed promising underclassmen ...
UNLV’s season came to an end on Wednesday with a 91-68 loss at Seton Hall. It was a blowout from start to finish, which one might assume would put a damper on the campaign. But that wasn’t the case for Kevin Kruger’s squad, which advanced to the postseason for the first time in 11 years before finally running out of gas in the quarterfinals of the NIT ...
Basketball, like all sports, is supposed to be fun. And it’s even more fun when you’re winning. The UNLV basketball team is learning that lesson right now, as a pressure-free NIT run has unlocked ...
A four-day road trip? A showdown between two Top 25 teams? A real opportunity to notch the program’s first NCAA Tournament win in more than two decades? This is all normal, according to Lindy La Rocque. The No. 20 UNLV women’s basketball team went through its final preparations ...
With eight minutes left in the Mountain West championship game, UNLV had a 45-37 lead over San Diego State and was looking to bury the dagger. Working from the elbow extended, junior forward Alyssa Brown made a nice feed inside to Desi-Rae Young, and the senior laid it in to push UNLV’s advantage to ...
The UNLV men’s basketball team picked up its first postseason win in nearly two decades, knocking off Princeton on Wednesday, 84-77, to advance to the second round of the NIT. UNLV moves on to the round of 16, where Kevin Kruger and his squad will face Boston College.
The UNLV men’s basketball team practiced on Monday, and that is a big development for the program because it means the season is still alive beyond the conference tournament ...
Coach Lindy La Rocque is greeted with a text message when she picks up her phone after every UNLV women’s basketball game. The message is from her dad, Al La Rocque, and usually reads: “Nice win, coach” ...
If there is one thing this UNLV team has proven it can do, it’s beat good teams. The inverse is also true — there were some bad losses scattered throughout the 2023-24 season — but ...
In this episode, UNLV women's basketball head coach Lindy La Rocque and Mountain West Player of the Year Desi-Rae Young demonstrate the best way to cut down a net ...
The last time the UNLV basketball team traveled up to Reno, things got a little crazy. UNLV’s starting point guard got ejected in the opening minutes. E.J. Harkless tore off his jersey (literally), then had to reenter the game wearing a replacement. Walk-on Cam Burist played ...
