\t\t\t\tUNLV MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL AT A GLANCE<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Who: Fresno State at UNLV<\/p>\n
\u25a0 When: 4 p.m. Saturday<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Where: Thomas & Mack Center<\/p>\n
\u25a0 TV: SSSEN<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Radio: KWWN (1100 AM, 100.9 FM)<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Line: UNLV -6, 156.5<\/p>\n
\u25a0 About UNLV (4-6, 0-0): The Rebels open Mountain West play with their first game at the Thomas & Mack Center in 30 days. They are coming off a 63-60 loss to Tennessee State last Saturday. Before that, the Rebels beat Stanford 75-74 on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n
The Rebels are averaging 80.9 points per game and have five players averaging 9.3 or more points per game: Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn (16.1), Kimani Hamilton (12.9 ppg), Issac Williamson (12.3 ppg), Emmanuel Stephen (11.0 ppg), and Tyrin Jones (9.3 ppg). Stephen leads UNLV in rebounding at 7.5 rpg, and Howie Fleming Jr. is the team\u2019s assist leader at 2.8 apg.<\/p>\n
UNLV was picked to finish sixth in the Mountain West preseason poll.<\/p>\n
\u25a0 About Fresno State (6-5, 0-0): Three Bulldogs are averaging in double figures in scoring, led by Jake Heidbreder\u2019s 18.5 ppg. Wilson Jacques leads the team in rebounds at 7.4 per game, and Zaon Collins leads in assists at 5.1 per game. The Bulldogs are limiting their opponents to 27.8 percent shooting on 3-pointers, which ranks 24th in the country. Fresno State was picked to finish 11th in the Mountain West preseason poll.<\/p>\n
Contact Vincent Bonsignore at vbonsignore@reviewjournal. com<\/a>. Follow @VinnyBonsignore<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNLV MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL AT A GLANCE \u25a0 Who: Fresno State at UNLV \u25a0 When: 4 p.m. Saturday \u25a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-101664","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\/101664","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=101664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}