{"id":189209,"date":"2026-02-22T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189209\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:44:11","slug":"fresno-state-mbb-watches-22-point-lead-slip-late-to-lobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189209\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State MBB watches 22-point lead slip late to Lobos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 New Mexico walked into the Save Mart Center on Saturday afternoon as one of the top three men&#8217;s basketball teams in the challenging Mountain West Conference.<\/p>\n<p>That made Fresno State&#8217;s hot start all the more impressive &#8211; after a Gaspar Kocevar 3-pointer, the Bulldogs took a 40-18 lead over the NCAA Tournament hopefuls. <\/p>\n<p>But the Lobos chipped away at the deficit, bringing it down to 12 by halftime and eventually taking the lead midway through the 2nd half.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the highlights above, including postgame reaction from Fresno State head coach Vance Walberg, of the Bulldogs&#8217; 80-78 loss to the Lobos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 New Mexico walked into the Save Mart Center on Saturday afternoon as one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-189209","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\/189209","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=189209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}