With his senior season on the horizon, UNLV’s Wink Adams is enjoying the view from the top.
UNLV Basketball
There are basketball recruits who arrive on campus with big reputations and four or five stars attached to their name, and then there is DeShawn Mitchell.
One day after undergoing a heart transplant operation, Glen Gondrezick was not resting comfortably. He was in pain, as expected. But he was feeling optimistic about the future.
Even while dealing with half a deck of cards last season, UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger never complained about playing short-handed.
For the second time in Lon Kruger’s five years as coach, UNLV’s basketball team will open Mountain West Conference play with a home game.
In the summer before his senior year in high school, Wink Adams had plenty of college options. He was being looked at seriously by Florida, Arkansas and Connecticut, to name just a few schools.
As he developed into a top prospect, Anthony Marshall attracted attention from college basketball coaches across the country. All but one tried to persuade him to leave Las Vegas.
In early May, after Chace Stanback announced he was leaving the UCLA basketball team, he received a call from a friend.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace provided occasional postcards during the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia. The team returned to Las Vegas on Saturday, and Wallace filed his final thoughts:
The UNLV basketball team reeled off its fourth consecutive Australia exhibition victory Tuesday, pounding the South West Metro Pirates 97-55 in Brisbane.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace will provide occasional postcards from the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia:
Brisbane is 7,900 miles from Las Vegas, but the Australian city — and its basketball facility — felt a lot like home to Wink Adams on Monday.
Editor’s note: UNLV basketball player Kendall Wallace is providing occasional postcards from the team’s six-game “Down Under” tour of Australia:
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