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3 unusual facts about UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball


UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball

The win set up a semifinal match with Georgia Tech at McNichols Arena in Denver.

The arena, which opened in 1983, is named after prominent Nevada bankers E. Parry Thomas and Jerome Mack, who donated the original fund for the feasibility and land studies.

Wendell White - Veteran of international leagues and the NBDL, currently with Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix


Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball

In the 1990 tournament, the trio of Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, & Brian Oliver (nicknamed "Lethal Weapon 3") carried the Yellow Jackets all the way to the Final Four, where they lost to eventual champion UNLV in the national semi-finals.


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Firestone Fieldhouse

A year later 4,500 fans crowded the Fieldhouse to see Pepperdine defeat the UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team by a score of 93-91.