{"id":115002,"date":"2025-12-31T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:24:24","slug":"leo-leads-unlv-against-fresno-state-after-20-point-performance-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115002\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo leads UNLV against Fresno State after 20-point performance | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno State Bulldogs (7-6, 1-1 MWC) at UNLV Lady Rebels (7-5, 2-0 MWC)<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas; Wednesday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: UNLV hosts Fresno State after Destiny Leo scored 20 points in UNLV&#8217;s 89-71 victory against the New Mexico Lobos.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Rebels are 5-1 in home games. UNLV ranks fourth in the MWC with 9.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Shelbee Brown averaging 2.3.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs are 1-1 against MWC opponents. Fresno State ranks third in the MWC with 10.6 offensive rebounds per game led by Jaisa Gamble averaging 2.2.<\/p>\n<p>UNLV is shooting 40.3% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 39.8% Fresno State allows to opponents. Fresno State averages 4.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.9 fewer made shots on average than the 7.1 per game UNLV allows.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Rebels and Bulldogs face off Wednesday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Mariah Elohim averages 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Lady Rebels, scoring 6.3 points while shooting 38.8% from beyond the arc. Jasmyn Lott is averaging 13.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Emilia Long is averaging 12 points, 3.7 assists and 2.9 steals for the Bulldogs. Danae Powell is averaging 9.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Lady Rebels: 5-5, averaging 64.0 points, 33.6 rebounds, 13.0 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 40.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Bulldogs: 4-6, averaging 56.3 points, 30.3 rebounds, 11.4 assists, 10.6 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 37.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 58.8 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State Bulldogs (7-6, 1-1 MWC) at UNLV Lady Rebels (7-5, 2-0 MWC) Las Vegas; Wednesday, 3 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4213,112,114,113,61489,127,2215],"class_list":{"0":"post-115002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-fresno-state-unlv-preview","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115002","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=115002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}