{"id":156408,"date":"2026-01-30T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:34:09","slug":"air-force-faces-fresno-state-looks-to-break-home-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156408\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force faces Fresno State, looks to break home losing streak"},"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> (9-11, 3-6 MWC) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/air-force-falcons-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force Falcons<\/a> (3-17, 0-9 MWC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Colorado Springs, Colorado; Saturday, 3 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: Air Force takes on Fresno State looking to break its six-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Falcons have gone 3-9 at home. Air Force averages 13.2 turnovers per game and is 2-4 when it wins the turnover battle.<\/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 3-6 in MWC play. Fresno State averages 71.8 points and has outscored opponents by 1.1 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=\"\">Air Force averages 61.3 points per game, 9.4 fewer points than the 70.7 Fresno State gives up. Fresno State averages 7.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 fewer makes per game than Air Force allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Falcons and Bulldogs match up Saturday 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\/eli-robinson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Robinson<\/a> is averaging 8.5 points and 5.3 rebounds for the Falcons. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/lucas-hobin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Hobin<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers 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 shooting 31.2% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Bulldogs, while averaging 17.3 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/deshawn-gory-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeShawn Gory<\/a> is averaging 15.2 points and eight rebounds over the past 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: Falcons: 0-10, averaging 55.4 points, 24.3 rebounds, 10.3 assists, 5.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 40.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.5 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 68.2 points, 30.5 rebounds, 12.8 assists, 7.0 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 40.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.7 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 (9-11, 3-6 MWC) at Air Force Falcons (3-17, 0-9 MWC) Colorado Springs, Colorado; Saturday, 3&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-156408","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\/156408","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=156408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156408\/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=156408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}