New Mexico Lobos (20-6, 11-4 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs (12-14, 6-9 MWC)<\/p>\n
Fresno, California; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New Mexico plays Fresno State after Antonio Chol scored 20 points in New Mexico’s 98-61 win over the Air Force Falcons.<\/p>\n
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The Bulldogs are 9-6 in home games. Fresno State ranks ninth in the MWC in rebounding averaging 31.1 rebounds. Wilson Jacques paces the Bulldogs with 8.7 boards.<\/p>\n
The Lobos are 11-4 in conference matchups. New Mexico is the MWC leader with 24.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Tomislav Buljan averaging 6.0.<\/p>\n
Fresno State makes 44.6% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.9 percentage points higher than New Mexico has allowed to its opponents (40.7%). New Mexico has shot at a 46.3% clip from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points above the 44.1% shooting opponents of Fresno State have averaged.<\/p>\n
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The teams play for the second time this season in MWC play. New Mexico won the last matchup 83-74 on Jan. 22. Jake Hall scored 16 points to help lead the Lobos to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Heidbreder is scoring 17.5 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Bulldogs. David Douglas Jr. is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Hall is averaging 15.8 points for the Lobos. Buljan is averaging 12.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Bulldogs: 5-5, averaging 76.2 points, 30.1 rebounds, 12.1 assists, 6.3 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lobos: 7-3, averaging 83.2 points, 33.8 rebounds, 15.7 assists, 7.6 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.7 points.<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Mexico Lobos (20-6, 11-4 MWC) at Fresno State Bulldogs (12-14, 6-9 MWC) Fresno, California; Saturday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4157,88738,7,112,114,113,742,3257,56254,60926,547,13688,24044,21125],"class_list":{"0":"post-188863","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-antonio-chol","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-fresno-state","15":"tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","16":"tag-jake-hall","17":"tag-mwc","18":"tag-new-mexico","19":"tag-new-mexico-lobos","20":"tag-percentage-points","21":"tag-points-per-game"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188863","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=188863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}