Kevin Kruger brings a lifetime in basketball, a way with players, a fierce competitive instinct and a love of Las Vegas to UNLV and his first head coaching job.

Kruger began his collegiate playing career at Arizona State, where he earned his criminal justice degree in 2006, before transferring to UNLV. In his lone season as a Runnin' Rebel student-athlete ...

UNLV point guard Kevin Kruger looks to his father Lon Kruger as Oregon takes a free throw in the first half of their NCAA Sweet 16 game at the Edwards Jones Dome in St. Louis Friday, March 23, 2007.

UNLV fired men's basketball coach Kevin Kruger after his fourth season with the team. The Runnin' Rebels finished with a 18-15 record in 2024/25 and were sixth in the Mountain West Conference.

Former UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball head coach Kevin Kruger has found a new home. After a four-year stint as the head coach of the Rebels, Kruger was dismissed this offseason with a career ...

Kruger, 42, is the former head coach at UNLV but also, notably, the son of former Illinois coach Lon Kruger, who was the head man in Champaign from 1996-2000 and went on to coach for another two ...

Terry was a teammate of Kruger’s on the 2006-07 UNLV team that won the Mountain West and advanced to the Sweet 16, and for the last two seasons he has served as the program’s radio analyst ...

After adding Camryn Crocker as an assistant coach earlier in the offseason, Illini head coach Brad Underwood made another addition to his coaching staff ahead of the 2025-26 season on Wednesday ...

Coach Kevin Kruger, who led UNLV to the Sweet 16 as the team's point guard in 2007 while playing for his father, Hall of Famer Lon Kruger, was fired by the Rebels on Saturday. Kruger went 76-55 in ...

Kevin Kruger has found his next job after being fired from the Runnin' Rebels earlier this year. The University of Illinois announced Kruger would be joining the men's basketball team as assistant ...

Kevin Kruger, an assistant basketball coach the past two seasons at UNLV, was elevated to head coach on March 21, 2021. Kruger was part of UNLV's Sweet Sixteen team in 2007.

Kruger was such a good shooter that Evans wouldn’t let everyone leave practice each day until he made a half-court shot. By the time he was a redshirt junior, Kruger averaged 15 points and 3.5 ...