{"id":115176,"date":"2025-12-31T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115176\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:27:06","slug":"michael-collins-puts-up-18-as-utah-state-takes-down-fresno-state-72-63-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/115176\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Collins puts up 18 as Utah State takes down Fresno State 72-63 \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FRESNO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Michael Collins Jr.\u2019s 18 points helped Utah State defeat Fresno State 72-63 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collins went 9 of 16 from the field (0 for 4 from 3-point range) for the Aggies (11-1, 2-0 Mountain West Conference). Mason Falslev scored 16 points and added eight rebounds and four steals. Kolby King shot 4 of 6 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 6 from the line to finish with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jake Heidbreder led the way for the Bulldogs (6-7, 0-2) with 21 points and three steals. Fresno State also got 15 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks from Wilson Jacques. Bastien Rieber had 12 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah State took the lead for good with 14:49 to go in the first half. The score was 35-26 at halftime, with Collins racking up 10 points. Utah State turned a six-point second-half lead into a 13-point advantage with a 7-0 run to make it a 46-33 lead with 15:53 left in the half. Falslev scored nine second-half points in the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Michael Collins Jr.\u2019s 18 points helped Utah State defeat Fresno State 72-63 on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,8378],"class_list":["post-115176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-news-feed-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115176","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=115176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}