Marred records from the Sun Belt, to the American East, to the West Coast Conference, and everywhere in between. Join our linker program. Simple attrition I suppose. The Hogs even held the halftime lead. The Rebels earned their second consecutive West region No. UNLV's roster included three of the eventual top 12 picks in the 1991 NBA Draft: Larry Johnson (first overall), Stacey Augmon (9th) and Greg Anthony (12th). The Rebels met Duke in back-to-back Final Fours in 1990 and 91. "We had something to prove. After a 113 to 64 humiliation of Fresno State, UNLV stood at 19-0. We definitely werent backing down from anyone. Anthony was a confident player, tough as nails. Or write about sports? After all, in the big scheme of things they didnt win. The UNLV mens basketball team got a steal and a layup in the final seconds to rally past Air Force on Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center. Hinton. By continuing to browse or by clicking I Accept Cookies you agree to the storing of first-party and third-party cookies on your device and consent to the disclosure of your personal information to our third party service providers or advertising partners to optimize your experience, analyze traffic and personalize content. While no one could have known of the impending streak, the game did attract national attention for a very different reason. "It legitimized us as a serious program. If youre in a war you want him in the foxhole with you. UNLV had reason to be confident entering the 1991 national semifinal game. Chris Jeter: Toughest player on the team. You call a jump shooting team getting to the free throw line 23 times to a post oriented teams 15 times better? Hide/Show Additional Information For Royce Hamm Jr. Hide/Show Additional Information For Reece Brown, Hide/Show Additional Information For Josh Baker, Hide/Show Additional Information For Trey Hurlburt, Hide/Show Additional Information For James Hampshire, Hide/Show Additional Information For Marvin Coleman, Hide/Show Additional Information For Cameron Burist, Video Platform powered by CBS Sports Digital. That is the fourth-longest consecutive-game win streak in NCAA Division 1 basketball history, and the longest win streak since the longest one ever (by UCLA) ended in 1974. Defensively, his foot speed was tremendous, which was crucial for disrupting passing lanes in UNLVs Amoeba Defense. Duke was 30-7 and had won the Midwest region as the No. Although UNLV is becoming one now. Plastic Man, with his elastic arms and legs, made it a nightmare for offensive players in an age where defensive player like Shane Battier take acting classes to engage in flopping to gain foul trouble on his match-up. Senior Director of Basketball Administration & Alumni Relations. You call a last second shot that hits the backboard and grazes the rim better? Its difficult to imagine a group like that making such a decision in todays pro-oriented environment. It was the lack of having our point guard out there. But what makes them different than, say, 83 Houston, 85 Georgetown or 99 Duke? March 2, 2018 2:48 pm MT. Title. Unsung hero: David Butler of UNLV, one of the toughest and best defenders in school history. As the sideline reporter assigned to the Duke bench, Brown related to Nantz and Billy Packer that "Coach K wanted his team to get out to a fast start and not allowing his guys a chance to get scared.". Hampshire, Marvin So the back-on title defense began. Check out the detailed 1990-91 Virginia Tech Hokies Roster and Stats for College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Things were already more competitive than expected, a fact captured nicely on the telecast by James Brown. On February 10, #1 UNLV traveled to Fayetteville to face #2 Arkansas. View Full Bio, Marty Tar Heel Times UNC Sports & Recruiting News. No post season for the Rebels. It would easy for people to say Im not seeing the big picture when talking about this team. As the game wore on at timeouts, at halftime we were like, Yo, we can win this.'". A contested desperation heave didn't have a chance, clanging off the backboard. NCAA Tournament. Director of Basketball Operations. The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1991 tournament: Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight), National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship). UNLV came down . Ranking the top 25 players in the 2021 Final Four, Anonymous coaches scout the men's Final Four teams, ESPN Insider college basketball contributor, First began covering college hoops in 2004, Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal. Kansas defeated Williams' mentor Dean Smith and North Carolina (where Williams later coached) in the semifinal. There were a few hiccups sure, but nothing that hadnt been ironed out for the 1990 NCAA Tournament. We had three of the top college players of all time, but we didn't know that then.". We all loved him." By this point in his career he had already taken the NCAA all the way to the Supreme Court. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "I think it's the best a team has ever played against me," Krzyzewski said afterward. ESPN and CBS analyst Jay Bilas was a Duke assistant coach for both the 1990 national title game, UNLV's 103-73 rout, and the following year's 79-77 Final Four upset that stopped the Rebels two . How could he not take up for what he had built? 2023 The Draft Review. Laettner would make two free throws the 12.7 seconds remaining via a controversial over-the-back call against Evric Gray and UNLVs dynasty would end when Anderson Hunts off-balance 3-point attempt over Hurley wasnt close. As 7,963 Canadians looked on (in a stadium that could seat 60,000), the Rebels rolled. VICTORY NO. "I still look at those games like, Wow' when I see the level we were playing. Greg Anthony: He was quite simply the engine that ran the rebels and quite possibly the most hated Rebel. The 1990 NCAA tournament concluded with UNLV winning the national championship thanks to a 30-point rout of Duke in the final, 103-73.The margin set the record for largest in championship game . (Editor's note: ESPN reached out to multiple starters from that team as well as to one member of the coaching staff. McCaffrey, Bobby They lost to Duke. I call this a fact that few can argue, yet there are few that will even take on that argument because of all the variables at play with the hated Runnin Rebels. UNLV shredded Duke with an 18-0 second-half run to leave no doubt as to which was the countrys finest team. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Thats the beauty of college basketball and its blemish. Duke lost to UNLV by 30 points in the previous season's championship. On March 2, 1991, the UNLV Runnin Rebelscoached by perennial NCAA-tormentor Jerry Tarkanian and led by future NBA first rounders Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, and Greg Anthonyfinished off a perfect regular season. They were the number one team that entire season. Let it burn into your cranium. Laettner, Grant Coach Wooden (good) is to this day considered a saint with not a single corrupt bone in his body, while Coach Tarkanian (bad) is viewed as having low morals with little regard for authority. Thirty years later, that 79-77 upset loss to Duke in the 1991 Final Four still stings. Lets pick a winner in every mens college basketball conference tournament. I love the city of Las Vegas. The core five of Butler (15.8), Anthony (11.2), Augmon (14.2), Hunt (15.9), and Johnson (20.6) each . 2 under their Hall of Fame coach. Clark, Bill We havent talked about it once, Tarkanian told the Los Angeles Times when it was all over. Get the latest news, stats and more about Quez Wright on RealGM.com UNLV had its way with UAB. Wins over Utah and Seton Hall at the Kingdome in Seattle carried the Rebels to the national semifinals in Indianapolis and a rematch with Duke. #1 UNLV Runnin' Rebels travelled to the Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville, AR to take on the #2 Arkansas Razorbacks. THIS WAS THE the first Final Four called by Jim Nantz for CBS, and his future broadcast partner, Grant Hill, was a freshman for the Blue Devils. Iwuakor, Michael Missouri Valley Tournament 2023: Bracket, schedule, scores, teams, and more. The tournament also returned to Charlotte in 1991, this time to the new Charlotte Coliseum, then the off-campus home of the Charlotte 49ers men's basketball team. During the UNLV golden age they won an impressive 45 games straight when you include their final 11 games of the 1990 championship season. Reggie Manuel was recruited to UNLV by legendary men's basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian shortly after the Rebels won the NCAA championship in 1990. The tournament was notable for its upsets. The UNLV-UAB contest capped off a day of basketballa girls game at 12:15, a boys game at 2:15, a matchup between the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria at 4:30, and then finally UNLV. Then Michigan State by 20. ", 'They need to go to the NBA': UNLV's 45-game win streak was historic, and its end was shocking, Edey leads Wooden finalists; Bama's Miller off list, Indiana's Johnson (foot) won't return this season, Davis 3 shy of Maravich; Detroit eyes CBI bid, Vandy's Robbins out rest of season with leg injury, Sources: High Point fires Smith after one season, Davis out as Bucknell coach after 12-20 season, Grill discloses mental illness after Iowa St. exit, All in the family: how three generations of Jaquezes have ruled West Coast basketball. Hunt totaled 29 points for the game and was named Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four. Missing two starters, UNLV stayed close with Boise State but still lost its third consecutive game Sunday in Boise, Idaho. "Even at halftime, you're thinking we're going to go out and do what we usually do, and it just never happened.". Duke assurance grew with every break they caught in the second half: Ackles picked up his fourth foul minutes after halftime, an ankle injury hobbled his backup, Elmore Spencer. Gambling problem? The Runnin' Rebels have one Sweet Sixteen appearance since 1991. In the buildup to UNLV's title defense, countless features had been written on how to beat the Rebels. The final game on the regular season slate was Cal State Fullertona school with almost nothing to brag about in the basketball department (Leon Wood on the 84 Olympic squad?) As of 2011, the regional broadcasts have been replaced by simulcast feeds on non-broadcast networks owned by Turner Sports. Not an arena it was a bleachers and lines all over the floor gymnasium. Asked at the Final Four news conference about his mentor's comments, Krzyzewski laughed it off. He went on to express his view that the Rebels, in effect, played by a different set of rules and that the UNLV program should be investigated from top to bottom, up to and including the players' grades, class attendance, cars and summer jobs. So weve made it to March. USU's head coach, Kohn Smith, had broken a taboo of his profession in early 1989 when he went on the record as being "happy" that Tarkanian had lost a road game at Louisville by 18 points. Armed with length, leaping ability and creativity, Augmon usually converted difficult shots with ease. Those teams entered the tournament with double digit loses. Losing the most lopsided championship game in tournament history had battered Dukes psyche. "I was a fan of theirs," Grant Hill says. 12 seed Ball State in a regional semifinal and then faced Loyola Marymount in the Elite Eight in Oakland. Walton went on to write, If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny Jerry Tarkanian and his players have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years. Christian Laettner, a progenitor of the stretch big, further opened up the court with long jump shots. 1988 Men's . It was, as Im now old enough to say, different times. . Palmer, Clay "They had blown everyone out that year," Grant Hill says. UNLVs roster included three of the eventual top 12 picks in the 1991 NBA Draft: Larry Johnson (first overall), Stacey Augmon (9th) and Greg Anthony (12th). Arkansas raced out to an early lead. Just stop it. Defensively, Ackles was intimidating, often blocking shots out of position and using his length to grab rebounds. The semifinal upset also ended the run of one of the most culturally influential college basketball teams ever. To this day, the Rebels are the only team to top 100 points in the title game, and the win over Duke still stands as the largest margin of victory ever recorded in a championship final. On March 2, 1996, with a 101-63 victory over Vanderbilt in Rupp Arena on Senior Day, UK became the first team in 40 . A fourth player, George Ackles, went . We can also describe in great detail the championship game the previous year, a 103-73 victory over Duke. Larry Varnado Jr. Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Men's Basketball and Volleyball. The Duke and UNLV programs went on wildly divergent paths following the game. Though his team had gone 0-3 against the Rebels that season, Long Beach State head coach Seth Greenberg said Tarkanian's "biggest vulnerability is if Greg [Anthony] gets in foul trouble." For the first time, CBS Sports showed all 63 tournament games. People can try to deny this, but UNLV was like the Yankees in baseball, the Notre Dame of college football and the Mike Tyson of boxing. On This Day In UK Basketball History On March 2, 1970, Dan Issel scored 42 points against Auburn. Everything came together perfectly. We could have played them 20 times and not beaten them in any.. . Yeah, we're about to go back-to-back and go undefeated,'" Hill, Duke's starting two guard, says today. Three lottery picks and a Hall of Fame coach. With Anthony on the bench, UNLV managed just three points the rest of the way. After blowout loss, UNLV refocuses for rivalry game with UNR, Lady Rebels rally to complete perfect run through Mountain West, Its been a blessing: UNLV honors seniors ahead of Utah State game, Layup in final seconds gives Rebels victory over Air Force, A privilege: Lady Rebels celebrate banner with fans after blowout, UNLV hopes practice pays off against Air Forces Princeton style, Lady Rebels want fans to help honor history with banner ceremony. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Coach K's team stayed reasonably close for the game's first 24 minutes before the roof fell in on them. Spencer was armed with a soft touch around the basket, effective rebounding and solid passing with true center size. 1 the entire season and had just one game decided inside double digits, a 112-105 road win at Arkansasa squad that went on to claim one of the other three No. ESPN reported in January of 1990 that Augmon would reunite with his 1988 Olympic team coach, John Thompson, and transfer to Georgetown if the Rebels were ineligible to play in the 1991 postseason. The team had only trailed for 38 minutes during the entire campaign. "I sure wish they'd given us a multiple-choice penalty," third-year Kansas coach Roy Williams said of the NCAA. Men's College Basketball News. Because they were vicious and explosive, while destroying everyone by an average of 26.7 points. And Rancho High product Anthony, the point guard, was the glue that held it all together. In their quest to be the first undefeated men's college basketball champion since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers, UNLV, at 34-0, had obliterated the so-called competition: 32 of their 34 victories were by double digits. And the big fourAnderson, Augmon, Hunt, and Johnsonwere all coming back. Awaiting them was the rare opponent who actually had better size than the Rebels. Basketball; Basketball Recruiting; Football; Football Recruiting; Baseball; Women's BB; Tweets; Shop; Tickets; More; 1991-92 UNC Basketball Roster. Learn more and register, College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski, won a rematch of the previous year's . Greg was our leader.". Krzyzewski had said goodbye to Phil Henderson and Alaa Abdelnaby from the previous year's team, but he still had Christian Laettner, Thomas Hill, Bobby Hurley, Billy McCaffrey and Brian Davis. Best NCAA Tournament Player: Was it Carmelo Anthony or Christian Laettner? The game was not televised. Depending on how you wanted to defend UNLV, Hunt could have 15 or 30 points. I never felt I could win this. Updated December 31, 2020 - 7:44 pm. And it wasnt really that close. Veterans from that IU roster fielded a high volume of calls from the media that week. The 1990 UNLV Runnin' Rebels are regarded as one of the greatest college basketball teams of all time. Solid scorer; a starter at any other school. UNLV had a 23-point lead late in the second half when Tarkanian pulled his starters, and a 3 at the buzzer for the Razorbacks cut the final margin to 112-105. What is hard for many to fathom is UNLV's 1990-91 roster was stronger and more ruthlesswith an average margin of victory of 26.7 points per game prior to a stunning loss to Dukein that . KOZN (1620 AM) and KOOO (101.9 FM) will carry all Creighton men's basketball games during the 2022-23 season. Johnson, Cheickna Muoka, Bryce This collection contains programs for UNLV men's basketball games and annual guides for men's and women's basketball. The guy had the power of a post player with the shooting touch of a perimeter man. There is no additional information to display. Anderson Hunt: He was one of the most dangerous players on the team. Sure, Duke was a dangerous team, but pre-season, everyone had them pegged as top 3 team. The Runnin' Rebels were the defending national champions on a 45-game winning streak. Since freshmen were not eligible at the time of UCLA's run, Duke's. Johnson then tied the game after hitting one of three free throws -- Thomas Hill was called for a lane violation. Stacey Augmon had 31 points, Anderson Hunt. But that wide-ranging influence was rooted first in UNLV's dominance on the basketball court. View Full Bio, Victor Zaon Collins, a star basketball player at Bishop Gorman High School and the top recruit of this year's UNLV class, was ordered released from jail Thursday, a . You only have to beat a team once to win. Thus concluded UNLVs perfect regular season. The 1990-91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in NCAA Division I men's competition in the 1990-91 season.The Runnin' Rebels, coached by Jerry Tarkanian, entered the season as defending national champions and entered the 1991 NCAA tournament unbeaten, but lost in the national semifinal to eventual champions Duke when Anderson Hunt's . Yes, the Rebels intensity occasionally boiled over, but mostly Tarks guys stuck to trash talking and winning. UNLV 77, Duke 79, Kentucky 103, Duke 104, Notre Dame 91, UConn 89, Texas A&M 63, Stanford 62. Have you ever felt as if youre in a washing machine on a super speed setting? Former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton had by this time become a vocal fan of the No. A total of 63 games were played. There was expected to be great turnover on the UNLV basketball roster after a disappointing 12-15 season. You call holding two All-Americans in Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon to a combined 16 points better? To make things interesting Coach Jerry Tarkanian always scheduled a tough out of conference schedule that, in 1991, included Arkansas (2), Michigan State (4), and Louisville (23), all top 25 opponents at the time. We won some. They were ranked No. UNLV Rebels Men's. Roster and Stats. Athletic Trainer. UNLV's semi-final loss in the NCAA tournament brought an end to their astounding 45-game win streak. Despite its image as a team that relied mainly on Johnson in the paint, UNLV was significantly more perimeter-oriented than Division I as a whole in 1990-91. We didnt know it would also mark the beginning of the end of the programs reign as a national power. Whats up? Be sure to subscribe to SB Nation's YouTube channel for highlight videos, features, analysis and more. Ray Brewer, a proud local, has been part of Greenspun Media Group since the mid-1990s. He was one of the strongest players in the post with a 36 + vertical, a post-up game, face-up game, ball handling and 3-point range. Place in Vancouver, Canada on December 1, 1990. Record: 34-1 (18-0, 1st in Big West MBB ) Rank: 1st in the Final AP Poll. With its combination of perimeter shooting and interior mastery, UNLV appeared to be a complete and possibly even invulnerable team. Fayetteville, Arkansas-area churches moved up their services to accommodate the 1 vs. 2 showdown. By Ryan Swanson | Neither team looked the least bit scared. Just never let down. "I'm in awe.". The 1991 Runnin Rebels are the greatest college basketball team of all time. 1990-1991 UNLV Runnin . Because many people forget or simply ignore the plain truth - LJ kicked everyone's ass on the court. UNLV basketball made about $1.5 million during its championship season of 1989-90. . Duke, meanwhile, won the first of five National Championships (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015) two nights later. Equally impressive was Augmons ability to finish in transition. These sites are not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with with these teams or institutions. "Let's show UNLV fans and players that we at Utah State University are a class act," USU's president and athletic director jointly urged in the ad.
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