The 1997–98 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The team was coached by Bill Bayno and played their home games at the Thomas & Mack Center on UNLV's main campus in Paradise, Nevada as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

The Runnin' Rebels finished the season 20–13, 7–7 in WAC play.

They won the 1998 WAC men's basketball tournament to receive an automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, earning a No.

5 seed Princeton in the opening round.