Unlv Rebels Tickets

The UNLV Rebels are the many sports teams that form up the athletics program of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. These spectacular teams have identified themselves as some of the best in the entire nation and have awed countless all over the nation with their prowess in several sports, both team sports and individual sports. Men’s and women’s sports team have won titles and gained honors for their sportsmanship. The UNLV Rebels play in the Mountain West Conference except for the men’s soccer team which is part of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. They are part of NCAA Division I with the football teams playing in Division I FBS, Football Bowl Subdivision championship. The present UNLV Rebels athletics director is Jim Livengood; the university and thus the UNLV Rebels varsity teams can be found playing superb sport at Paradise in Nevada. These amazing teams can be seen live at many a venue by using UNLV Rebels Tickets.

There are a total of sixteen varsity teams; seven men’s teams and nine women’s teams. The football teams can be seen playing spectacular football at the Sam Boyd Stadium, the basketball teams bouncing around the ball at the Thomas & MackCenter for men and the Cox Pavilion for women and the baseball teams batting at the Earl Wilson Stadium. The mascot of the UNLV Rebels is Hey Reb! and the UNLV Rebels teams are known fondly by the nickname, Rebels. The official team colours are grey and scarlet. The UNLV Rebels have the University of Nevada in Reno’s Wolf Pack as their main rivals since these two universities are the two main colleges found in the US state of Nevada. In fact, one of the best known sports competitions in the state of Nevada is the spectacular Battle for Nevada, a football event that takes place between the UNLV Rebels football team and the University of Nevada Reno football team. In fact, Battle for Nevada’s trophy, the Fremont Cannon, is the most expensive and biggest trophy in all of college football being an original howitzer cannon from the 19th century. One of the best known historic moments for the UNLV Rebels was when the UNLV Rebels basketball team won a match against the Duke University Blue Devils men’s basketball team, resulting in the Greatest Blowout in College Basketball History. The UNLV Rebels won this game with a record 103-73 score and then went on to bag the NCAA National Basketball Championship that year. Aside from that, the UNLV Rebels have also won two amazing team National Championships in golf, two individual National Championships in men’s golf, two National Championships in tennis and two National Championships in women’s track & field.

The UNLV Rebels football team is also nationally renowned; when the team was part of Division II, it was one of the best in the entire division as a result of which it was moved to DivisionI. Today, this team is one of the very few teams all over the nation to have remained undefeated in bowl games; they have won the California Bowl once and the Las Vegas Bowl twice. The UNLV Rebels have also won the Big West Conference Championships two times as well as received a number of honors that includes nine All-Americans, one Conference Student Athlete of the Year, nine Conference MVPs, three Conference Coaches of the Year, two Freshman All-Americans and four Conference Freshman of the Year.

The awesome UNLV Rebels men’s basketball team has been ranked at number eight amongst three hundred teams all over the nation by the ESPN Prestige Rankins, a fact that makes this team amongst the best ten teams in the US. And if that isn’t enough, the Forbes magazine also lists the UNLV Rebels basketball program as one of the most valuable in the whole nation. This, added to numerous National Championships and several one of a kind records makes UNLV Rebels varsity teams worth catching live via the use of UNLV Rebels Tickets.