LAS VEGAS — Miles Byrd had 23 points in San Diego State’s 82-71 victory over UNLV on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Byrd also contributed five assists and four steals for the Aztecs (14-5, 8-1 Mountain West Conference). Reese Waters scored 13 points and added seven rebounds. Taj DeGourville shot 4 of 6 from the field and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points.<\/p>\n
Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn finished with 27 points for the Rebels (10-9, 5-3). Kimani Hamilton added 12 points for UNLV. Tyrin Jones had 10 points and three steals.<\/p>\n
San Diego State took the lead for good with 18:19 to go in the first half. The score was 39-34 at halftime, with Byrd racking up 11 points. San Diego State used a 9-2 run in the second half to build a 16-point lead at 77-61 with 2:16 left before finishing off the win.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS — Miles Byrd had 23 points in San Diego State’s 82-71 victory over UNLV on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[73729,847,4213,1327,18,24795,74,76,75,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-148637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-73729","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-mens-college-basketball","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148637","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=148637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}