July 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS - The deadline for renewing season tickets for the 2008-09 UNLV men's basketball season is Tuesday, July 22.
Following the deadline, all remaining season tickets, including plaza-level locations with a Rebel Athletic Fund-donation required, will be made available to the general public.
"We are very pleased that these tickets are a hot item and we anticipate a high rate of retention for renewals," said UNLV head coach Lon Kruger. "Hopefully, our current season-ticket holders will respond by Tuesday to protect their investment."
For more information on renewing season tickets and requesting additional tickets or upgrades, please call 702-739-FANS (3267) prior to the July 22 deadline.
Fans interested in purchasing season tickets should call 739-FANS and those interested in purchasing tickets in the Rebel Athletic Fund-donation required locations should call 702-895-1533.
UNLV finished the 2007-08 season with an overall record of 27-8 and lost to eventual national champion Kansas in the NCAA Tournament's second round. The appearance in the NCAA Tournament was the second straight for UNLV, which advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2007, and the first time that the Runnin' Rebels won games in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments since 1990 and 1991.
UNLV finished second in the Mountain West Conference this past season with a 12-4 mark for the second consecutive year and won the MWC Tournament championship, also for the second straight time.
Kruger, who was named the 2007-08 MWC and USBWA District VIII Coach of the Year, will enter his fifth season at UNLV in 2008-09 after compiling a four-year mark of 91-42 (.684), including a record of 57-15 (.792) over the last two seasons. UNLV's 57 wins over the past two years ranks ninth in the country among teams that have played in each of the last two NCAA Tournaments and is the second-most victories over the last two years among teams in the West, only behind UCLA.
UNLV has a 15-game home win streak, which is the 11th-longest active streak in the country, has compiled a record of 38-3 at home over the last two seasons and has won 24 straight games against MWC opponents at the Thomas & Mack Center.
UNLV loses only two seniors from last season's team - Curtis Terry and Corey Bailey. The Runnin' Rebels will have four seniors on the 2008-09 roster in Wink Adams, Joe Darger, René Rougeau and Mareceo Rutledge (three of them starters from last year). Several publications have listed UNLV in their early 2008-09 preseason Top 25 polls. UNLV recently completed its summer foreign exhibition tour of Australia with a 4-2 mark.
