{"id":163313,"date":"2026-02-04T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:41:10","slug":"unlv-basketball-blows-late-lead-falls-to-fresno-state-for-4th-straight-loss-unlv-basketball-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163313\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV basketball blows late lead, falls to Fresno State for 4th straight loss | UNLV Basketball | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/unlv\/unlv-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UNLV<\/a> is making up new ways to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Leading by five points in the final six seconds against Fresno State on Tuesday night, the Rebels allowed a 7-0 run to close the game and fell 98-96 at Save Mart Center in Fresno, California, for their fourth straight defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Heidbreder hit a jump shot along the left baseline as time expired in the nearly three-hour game. He scored a game-high 29 points.<\/p>\n<p>Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn scored 28 points, and Howie Fleming Jr. added 23 for the Rebels, who fell to 10-12 and 5-6 in the Mountain West. Fresno State improved to 11-11 and 5-6.<\/p>\n<p>The Rebels led 69-56 with 10:13 left before falling apart down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs-Lawhorn, who hit 10 of 13 field goals, fouled out with 2:06 left and UNLV leading 86-78.<\/p>\n<p>Four other Rebels players \u2014 Kimani Hamilton, Issac Williamson, Emmanuel Stephen and Walter Brown \u2014 also fouled out. UNLV finished with 35 fouls.<\/p>\n<p>There were 62 fouls called and 80 free throws shot. UNLV hit 25 of 36 free throws and Fresno State 32 of 44.<\/p>\n<p>There were also six technical fouls and 3 flagrant fouls called.<\/p>\n<p>UNLV returns to action at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against Grand Canyon at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Callie Fin at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/unlv\/unlv-basketball\/unlv-blows-late-lead-falls-to-fresno-state-for-4th-straight-loss-3615710\/mailto:cfin@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cfin@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @Callie__Fin on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNLV is making up new ways to lose. Leading by five points in the final six seconds against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-163313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163313","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=163313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}