{"id":141442,"date":"2026-01-20T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141442\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:59:10","slug":"fresno-state-visits-buljan-and-new-mexico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141442\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State visits Buljan and New Mexico"},"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> (9-9, 3-4 MWC) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/new-mexico-lobos-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Lobos<\/a> (14-4, 5-2 MWC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Albuquerque, New Mexico; Wednesday, 9 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: New Mexico takes on Fresno State after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tomislav-buljan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomislav Buljan<\/a> scored 20 points in New Mexico&#8217;s 83-79 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/san-diego-state-aztecs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego State Aztecs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Lobos are 10-0 on their home court. New Mexico has a 2-0 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Bulldogs are 3-4 in MWC play. Fresno State ranks sixth in the MWC with 23.4 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 5.8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">New Mexico is shooting 45.7% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points higher than the 43.8% Fresno State allows to opponents. Fresno State scores 5.3 more points per game (72.5) than New Mexico allows (67.2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Lobos and Bulldogs match up Wednesday 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\/jake-hall-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Hall<\/a> is scoring 14.7 points per game and averaging 3.1 rebounds for the Lobos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/deyton-albury-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deyton Albury<\/a> is averaging 11.6 points and 3.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/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 averaging 17.6 points for the Bulldogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/deshawn-gory-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeShawn Gory<\/a> is averaging 11.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Lobos: 8-2, averaging 81.0 points, 33.5 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Bulldogs: 3-7, averaging 68.0 points, 31.4 rebounds, 13.2 assists, 7.3 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 40.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.4 points.<\/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 (9-9, 3-4 MWC) at New Mexico Lobos (14-4, 5-2 MWC) Albuquerque, New Mexico; Wednesday, 9&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-141442","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\/141442","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=141442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141442\/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=141442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}