MARTIN, Tenn. – Year Two of the Jeremy Shulman Era on the University of Tennessee at Martin begins with a street journey to UNLV because the Skyhawk males’s basketball squad takes on the Runnin’ Rebels within the 2025-26 season opener. Tipoff on the Thomas & Mack Center is ready for 9 p.m. CT.
UT Martin returns seven gamers from final season, 5 of which began not less than six contests. That listing consists of Ohio Valley Conference “Players to Watch” Afan Trnka (8.3 factors per sport, team-best 97 assists) and Lamine Niang (team-highs of 58.4 subject objective proportion and 26 blocks).
A complete of 12 newcomers are set to make their Skyhawk debuts in 2025-26, together with 9 mixed freshmen (one redshirt, eight true). The 9 rookies are essentially the most in UT Martin historical past and in addition path solely New Haven (11) for essentially the most in NCAA Division I males’s basketball.
The Skyhawks additionally tout essentially the most worldwide student-athletes (13) within the NCAA Division I males’s basketball ranks for the second straight season. Overall, 11 totally different nations are represented on UT Martin’s 2025-26 roster.
The Skyhawks will search for their second straight season-opening street victory as UT Martin defeated eventual CollegeBasketballInsider.com (CBI) champion Illinois State by a 67-65 margin precisely a 12 months in the past from its 2025-26 tipoff date.
UNLV returns only one participant from final season as former Memphis and Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner takes over the reins of the standard Mountain West Conference powerhouse. Eight NCAA Division I transfers – 4 from Power 4 conferences – are a part of 13 newcomers on the Runnin’ Rebel roster.
Illinois switch Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn guided UNLV in scoring in each of its exhibition outings, averaging 22.5 factors (on 63 p.c taking pictures) per contest in opposition to Washington and Lincoln. Naas Cunningham, a switch from Alabama, averaged 17.0 factors and a team-best 9.5 rebounds per sport through the preseason.
Tomorrow’s sport will probably be streamed stay on the Mountain West Network. A hyperlink to look at the sport and a hyperlink for stay stats might be discovered on the prime of the webpage.
UT Martin returns seven gamers from final season, 5 of which began not less than six contests. That listing consists of Ohio Valley Conference “Players to Watch” Afan Trnka (8.3 factors per sport, team-best 97 assists) and Lamine Niang (team-highs of 58.4 subject objective proportion and 26 blocks).
A complete of 12 newcomers are set to make their Skyhawk debuts in 2025-26, together with 9 mixed freshmen (one redshirt, eight true). The 9 rookies are essentially the most in UT Martin historical past and in addition path solely New Haven (11) for essentially the most in NCAA Division I males’s basketball.
The Skyhawks additionally tout essentially the most worldwide student-athletes (13) within the NCAA Division I males’s basketball ranks for the second straight season. Overall, 11 totally different nations are represented on UT Martin’s 2025-26 roster.
The Skyhawks will search for their second straight season-opening street victory as UT Martin defeated eventual CollegeBasketballInsider.com (CBI) champion Illinois State by a 67-65 margin precisely a 12 months in the past from its 2025-26 tipoff date.
UNLV returns only one participant from final season as former Memphis and Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner takes over the reins of the standard Mountain West Conference powerhouse. Eight NCAA Division I transfers – 4 from Power 4 conferences – are a part of 13 newcomers on the Runnin’ Rebel roster.
Illinois switch Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn guided UNLV in scoring in each of its exhibition outings, averaging 22.5 factors (on 63 p.c taking pictures) per contest in opposition to Washington and Lincoln. Naas Cunningham, a switch from Alabama, averaged 17.0 factors and a team-best 9.5 rebounds per sport through the preseason.
Tomorrow’s sport will probably be streamed stay on the Mountain West Network. A hyperlink to look at the sport and a hyperlink for stay stats might be discovered on the prime of the webpage.