{"id":176381,"date":"2026-02-13T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:18:07","slug":"gory-and-fresno-state-host-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176381\/","title":{"rendered":"Gory and Fresno State host Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air Force Falcons<\/a> (3-21, 0-13 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (11-13, 5-8 MWC)<\/p>\n

Fresno, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State hosts Air Force after DeShawn Gory<\/a> scored 21 points in Fresno State’s 91-78 loss to the Utah State Aggies.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs are 8-6 in home games. Fresno State has a 6-6 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Falcons are 0-13 in conference play. Air Force is 2-4 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

Fresno State averages 72.9 points per game, 5.5 fewer points than the 78.4 Air Force allows. Air Force has shot at a 42.8% rate from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point fewer than the 43.8% shooting opponents of Fresno State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs and Falcons face off Saturday for the first time in MWC play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Heidbreder<\/a> averages 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Bulldogs, scoring 17.5 points while shooting 32.6% from beyond the arc. Gory is shooting 47.5% and averaging 16.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Lucas Hobin<\/a> averages 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Falcons, scoring 11.3 points while shooting 32.7% from beyond the arc. Kam Sanders<\/a> is shooting 40.2% and averaging 10.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Bulldogs: 5-5, averaging 70.9 points, 30.6 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 6.3 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 41.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Falcons: 0-10, averaging 59.2 points, 24.3 rebounds, 12.7 assists, 4.5 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 41.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.7 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air Force Falcons (3-21, 0-13 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs (11-13, 5-8 MWC) Fresno, California; Saturday, 5 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4157,4213,66804,80631,112,114,113,3257,11747,83943,68198],"class_list":{"0":"post-176381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-air-force-falcons","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-deshawn-gory","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-fresno","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","16":"tag-jake-heidbreder","17":"tag-kam-sanders","18":"tag-lucas-hobin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176381","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=176381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176381\/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=176381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}