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Dave Rice Sport(s) Basketball Current position Title Head coach Team UNLV Biographical details Born August 29, 1968 Place of birth Pomona, California Playing career 1987–1991 UNLV Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1991-1992
1994-2004
2004–2005
2005-2011
2011–presentUNLV (asst.)
UNLV (asst.)
Utah State (asst.)
BYU (asst.)
UNLVDave Rice (born August 29, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and the head men's basketball coach at UNLV. Rice replaced Lon Kruger as head coach of the Rebels on April 10, 2011.[1]
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Playing career
Rice played for legendary UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, part of the 1990 UNLV Runnin' Rebels squad that won the NCAA men's basketball championship. He earned his bachelors from UNLV 1991 and a MBA in 1993, and was a Rhodes scholar candidate.
Coaching career
After graduating from UNLV, Rice became an assistant coach for the Rebels, where he spent 11 seasons under head coaches Tim Grgurich, Bill Bayno and Charlie Spoonhour. He left for Utah State University when UNLV hired Lon Kruger, and later was an assistant coach under Dave Rose at Brigham Young University.
He was hired to replace Kruger at UNLV in 2011.
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UNLV Runnin' Rebels Basketball 1989–90 NCAA Champions 00 David Butler | 4 Larry Johnson | 12 Anderson Hunt (MOP) | 30 Dave Rice | 32 Stacey Augmon | 35 Moses Scurry | 50 Greg Anthony
Coach Jerry Tarkanian
Assistant Coaches: Tim Grgurich | Ron GanulinUNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball head coaches Michael Drakulich (1958–1963) • Ed Gregory (1963–1965) • Rolland Todd (1965–1970) • John Bayer (1970–1973) • Jerry Tarkanian (1973–1992) • Rollie Massimino (1992–1994) • Tim Grgurich (1994–1995) • Howie Landa & Cleveland Edwards # (1995) • Bill Bayno (1995–2000) • Max Good # (2000–2001) • Charlie Spoonhour (2001–2004) • Lon Kruger (2004–2011) • Dave Rice (2011– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Current men's basketball head coaches of the Mountain West Conference Jeff Reynolds (Air Force) • Leon Rice (Boise State) • Tim Miles (Colorado State) • Steve Alford (New Mexico) • Steve Fisher (San Diego State) • Jim Christian (TCU) • Dave Rice (UNLV) • Larry Shyatt (Wyoming Cowboys)
Categories:- Living people
- Utah State Aggies men's basketball coaches
- BYU Cougars men's basketball coaches
- UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball coaches
- UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball players
- 1968 births
- United States basketball coach stubs
- American basketball biography, 1960s birth stubs
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