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The 1989–90 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada Las Vegas in NCAA Division I men’s competition in the 1989–90 season and won the NCAA title under head coach Jerry Tarkanian. The team played its home games in the Thomas & Mack Center and was a member of the Big West Conference; it would join the Western Athletic Conference in 1996 and become a charter member of its current conference the Mountain West Conference in 1999.