NCAA tournament UNLV won three of its tournament games by 30 points, but got a scare from Ball State in the regional semifinal, winning by just two points. In the 1990 Tournament - • UNLV at the time had the largest accumulated victory margin (112 points), over the entire tournament by a championship team that played 6 games. They held the record for six years. To date it is the seventh-largest. • UNLV's 103–73 win over Duke marked the first, (and to date, only), time in the history of the tournament that at least 100 points were scored in the championship game. • UNLV's 571 points over six games set the record for most points scored by a single team in any one year of the tournament. • UNLV is the only team in tournament history to average more than 95 points per game, over six games. In six tournament games, they won three by exactly 30 points, while scoring more than 100 points in each 30-point victory. • UNLV and UCLA in 1965 are the only championship teams in tournament history to win three games all while scoring at least 100 points in each win. (Loyola Marymount also scored at least 100 points in three games in the 1990 tournament, but lost their last game, where they scored 101 points, to UNLV, by 30 points. UNLV also scored at least 100 points in three victories in the 1977 tournament, but their last one was in the Final Four
consolation game.) • UNLV's 30-point margin of victory in the championship game is also a tournament record. ESPN called it the 36th "worst blowout in sports history". • To date, UNLV remains the last team from a non-power conference (
AAC,
ACC,
Big East,
Big Ten,
Big 12,
Pac-12, and
SEC) to win the national championship, since Louisville in 1986. (The nickname "Runnin' Rebels" is unique to men's basketball at UNLV. The default nickname for men's sports teams at the school is simply "Rebels", while all women's teams are known as "Lady Rebels".) ==Roster==