Even while dealing with half a deck of cards last season, UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger never complained about playing short-handed.
UNLV Basketball
For the second time in Lon Kruger’s five years as coach, UNLV’s basketball team will open Mountain West Conference play with a home game.
In the summer before his senior year in high school, Wink Adams had plenty of college options. He was being looked at seriously by Florida, Arkansas and Connecticut, to name just a few schools.
As he developed into a top prospect, Anthony Marshall attracted attention from college basketball coaches across the country. All but one tried to persuade him to leave Las Vegas.
In early May, after Chace Stanback announced he was leaving the UCLA basketball team, he received a call from a friend.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace provided occasional postcards during the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia. The team returned to Las Vegas on Saturday, and Wallace filed his final thoughts:
The UNLV basketball team reeled off its fourth consecutive Australia exhibition victory Tuesday, pounding the South West Metro Pirates 97-55 in Brisbane.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace will provide occasional postcards from the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia:
Brisbane is 7,900 miles from Las Vegas, but the Australian city — and its basketball facility — felt a lot like home to Wink Adams on Monday.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace is providing occasional postcards from the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia:
The UNLV basketball team apparently has found its comfort zone in its six-game exhibition tour of Australia, and it’s from 3-point range.
Rested and no longer rubber-legged from its 19-hour trip two days earlier, UNLV’s men’s basketball team broke through with a 77-75 victory over the Illawarra Seahawks on Friday at Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Senior forward Joe Darger turned in a strong effort — 15 points and 12 rebounds — but UNLV’s basketball team lost the opener of its six-game exhibition tour of Australia, falling 72-64 to the Sutherland Sharks on Thursday in Sutherland, Australia.
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