May 20, 1998

LAS VEGAS - The UNLV golf team has earned the No. 1 seed at the 1998 NCAA Men's Golf Championships to be held May 27-30, in Albuquerque, N.M., at the University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course (par 72, 2,245 yards).

The Rebels, who qualified for their 10th-straight finals, will head into the tournament as the top seed for the second-consecutive year. Before being named the No. 1 seed the last two years, UNLVs previous high was No. 3 in 1996, as UNLV finished in second place, its highest-ever NCAA finish.

At the end of the fall season, the Rebels became the nation's unanimous No. 1 golf team for the second time in school history when all three major golf polls listed UNLV No. 1.

The Rebels, who are coming off a third-place NCAA West Regional finish last weekend, will play the first two rounds next week with No. 2-seed Clemson and No. 3-seed Georgia Tech.

The WAC has two teams among the top-four with TCU having received the fourth seed. New Mexico, the host and the NCAA West Regional Co-Champion received the 11th seed, while Fresno State, at No. 29, is the fourth conference team among the 30-squad field.

1998 NCAA MEN'S GOLF SEEDING1.  UNLV                16. Ohio State2.  Clemson         17. Augusta State3.  Georgia Tech        18. Oklahoma4.  TCU         19. North Carolina State5.  Georgia         20. Northwestern6.  Oklahoma State      21. Nebraska7.  Houston         22. East Tennessee State8.  Arizona State       23. UC Santa Barbara9.  Arizona         24. Minnesota10. Auburn          25. Southeastern Louisiana11. New Mexico      26. California12. North Carolina      27. Kent13. Florida         28. Oregon14. South Carolina      29. Fresno State15. UCLA            30. Miami, Ohio