{"id":200445,"date":"2026-03-02T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:11:07","slug":"fresno-state-takes-on-new-mexico-aims-to-break-3-game-slide-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200445\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State takes on New Mexico, aims to break 3-game slide | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno State Bulldogs (14-16, 8-11 MWC) at New Mexico Lobos (21-9, 13-6 MWC)<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State heads into the matchup against New Mexico as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n<p>The Lobos have gone 11-4 at home. New Mexico leads the MWC in rebounding, averaging 34.7 boards. Jessie Joaquim leads the Lobos with 7.3 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs have gone 8-11 against MWC opponents. Fresno State is 0-2 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico is shooting 39.8% from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points higher than the 39.2% Fresno State allows to opponents. Fresno State averages 4.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 fewer made shots on average than the 6.1 per game New Mexico gives up.<\/p>\n<p>The Lobos and Bulldogs meet Tuesday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Laila Abdurraqib averages 1.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Lobos, scoring 7.9 points while shooting 39.8% from beyond the arc. Destinee Hooks is averaging 12.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Emilia Long is shooting 41.6% and averaging 13.4 points for the Bulldogs. Danae Powell is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Lobos: 8-2, averaging 60.6 points, 35.8 rebounds, 10.3 assists, 7.1 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 37.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 56.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Bulldogs: 4-6, averaging 60.6 points, 35.0 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 7.9 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 36.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 59.8 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State Bulldogs (14-16, 8-11 MWC) at New Mexico Lobos (21-9, 13-6 MWC) Albuquerque, New Mexico; Tuesday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4213,112,114,113,93122,127,2215],"class_list":["post-200445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-college-basketball","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state-new-mexico-preview","tag-sports","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200445","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=200445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}