{"id":101018,"date":"2025-12-19T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101018\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:10","slug":"unlv-hosts-fresno-state-following-collins-24-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101018\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV hosts Fresno State following Collins&#8217; 24-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/fresno-state-bulldogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (6-5) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/unlv-runnin-rebels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UNLV<\/a> Rebels (4-6)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Las Vegas; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State visits UNLV after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/zaon-collins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zaon Collins<\/a> scored 24 points in Fresno State&#8217;s 89-87 loss to the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Rebels are 2-2 on their home court. UNLV is eighth in the MWC with 22.5 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/emmanuel-stephen-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuel Stephen<\/a> averaging 5.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Bulldogs have gone 0-1 away from home. Fresno State is sixth in the MWC with 23.5 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/wilson-jacques-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson Jacques<\/a> averaging 5.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">UNLV averages 80.9 points, 9.4 more per game than the 71.5 Fresno State allows. Fresno State has shot at a 46.7% rate from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 45.3% shooting opponents of UNLV have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Rebels and Bulldogs meet Saturday for the first time in MWC play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/dra-gibbs-lawhorn-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn<\/a> is shooting 43.5% and averaging 16.1 points for the Rebels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/issac-williamson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Issac Williamson<\/a> is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jake-heidbreder-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Heidbreder<\/a> is scoring 18.5 points per game with 3.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the Bulldogs. Collins is averaging 15.3 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 50.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State Bulldogs (6-5) at UNLV Rebels (4-6) Las Vegas; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-101018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}