{"id":179971,"date":"2026-02-16T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:28:27","slug":"fresno-state-visits-wyoming-following-dennis-21-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179971\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State visits Wyoming following Dennis’ 21-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (12-13, 6-8 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys<\/a> (13-12, 4-10 MWC)<\/p>\n

Laramie, Wyoming; Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Wyoming hosts Fresno State after Damarion Dennis<\/a> scored 21 points in Wyoming’s 79-68 loss to the Colorado State Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have gone 11-4 in home games. Wyoming is 6-5 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 10.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have gone 6-8 against MWC opponents. Fresno State is 7-5 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 12.5 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

Wyoming is shooting 45.1% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 43.6% Fresno State allows to opponents. Fresno State averages 73.7 points per game, 0.5 more than the 73.2 Wyoming gives up.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Leland Walker<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 3.6 assists for the Cowboys. Khaden Bennett<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Heidbreder<\/a> is shooting 32.6% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Bulldogs, while averaging 17.5 points. DeShawn Gory<\/a> is shooting 46.5% and averaging 16.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cowboys: 2-8, averaging 67.5 points, 28.7 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 4.4 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 40.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulldogs: 5-5, averaging 73.2 points, 30.6 rebounds, 11.7 assists, 6.6 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.2 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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 (12-13, 6-8 MWC) at Wyoming Cowboys (13-12, 4-10 MWC) Laramie, Wyoming; Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4213,70209,66804,80631,112,114,113,3257,11747,74187,70208,1784],"class_list":{"0":"post-179971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-damarion-dennis","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-khaden-bennett","18":"tag-leland-walker","19":"tag-wyoming-cowboys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179971","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=179971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179971\/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=179971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}