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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV volleyball program will play a total of 30 regular-season matches - 15 of which will take place in the Cox Pavilion - during the 2015 campaign, announced by the athletics department Friday. The fall slate will feature 18 contests against Mountain West foes and 12 more versus non-conference competition.

UNLV will play five teams that earned berths into the 64-team field of the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Both Illinois and Colorado went 2-1, while Arizona State was 1-1. Seton Hall and Kansas State each lost their first-round matchups. In addition, three of the quintet concluded the '14 season ranked in the AVCA Division I Coaches Final Poll, as Illinois and Colorado State were 11th and 12th, respectively, and Arizona State was 22nd.

"We've put together a very ambitious schedule with teams from the Big 12, Pac 12 and Big 10," said head coach Cindy Fredrick, the 2014 MW Coach of the Year. "When you combine that with Seton Hall, Central Arkansas and Oral Roberts, we should be well prepared for what will be a very strong Mountain West this year."

The Rebels open the '15 season with a pair of four-team home tournaments in weeks one and three. They will welcome Central Arkansas, Omaha and Seton Hall to the Las Vegas Valley on Aug. 28-29 for the UNLV Invitational. Two weeks later (Sept. 11-12), they'll host Southeastern Louisiana, Portland State and Oral Roberts in the Rebel Challenge.

UNLV will hit the road during the second and fourth weekends of the season with trips to Manhattan, Kan., and Tempe, Ariz., respectively. The Rebels will join the likes of California and Green Bay at Kansas State's own Invitational on Sept. 4-5. They'll go head-to-head against Illinois, Texas Southern and host Arizona State at the Red Lyon Invitational on Sept. 18-19.

In Conference play, which runs Sept. 26 through Nov. 24, the Rebels will square off twice apiece (home and away) against San Jose State, Boise State, Utah State, Air Force, New Mexico, Fresno State and Nevada, Reno. They will only face Colorado State (home) and Wyoming (away) once in the 18-match slate.

The Scarlet & Gray are coming off a remarkable season that saw the squad rewrite the program's single-season record book in overall (26) and conference (14) victories. Bree Hammel, a Las Vegas native and redshirt junior to-be, not only earned All-MW First Team recognition, but also garnered AVCA Division I All-Pacific South Region Honorable Mention status. Alexis Patterson (rising sophomore) as well as the graduated trio of Allison Davies, Daryn Glenn and Katlin Winters was recognized by the Conference, too.