Nevada Wolf Pack (10-3, 2-0 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs (6-7, 0-2 MWC)<\/p>\n
Fresno, California; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State takes on Nevada after Jake Heidbreder scored 21 points in Fresno State’s 72-63 loss to the Utah State Aggies.<\/p>\n
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The Bulldogs are 5-4 in home games. Fresno State has a 3-2 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Wolf Pack are 2-0 in conference games. Nevada ranks seventh in the MWC with 14.2 assists per game led by Tayshawn Comer averaging 3.5.<\/p>\n
Fresno State’s average of 7.5 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.5 fewer made shots on average than the 8.0 per game Nevada gives up. Nevada averages 6.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 fewer makes per game than Fresno State gives up.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Zaon Collins is averaging 13.9 points, 5.1 assists and two steals for the Bulldogs. Heidbreder is averaging 18.6 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 44.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Comer is averaging 15 points and 3.5 assists for the Wolf Pack. Elijah Price is averaging 11.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bulldogs: 4-6, averaging 74.0 points, 30.4 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 8.1 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Wolf Pack: 7-3, averaging 76.6 points, 29.3 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.2 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nevada Wolf Pack (10-3, 2-0 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs (6-7, 0-2 MWC) Fresno, California; Saturday, 7 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,112,114,113,742,3257,11747,4155,9250],"class_list":{"0":"post-120534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-fresno-state","13":"tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","14":"tag-jake-heidbreder","15":"tag-nevada-wolf-pack","16":"tag-utah-state-aggies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120534","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=120534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}