{"id":205473,"date":"2026-03-05T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:23:07","slug":"unlv-faces-san-diego-state-after-hamiltons-24-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205473\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV faces San Diego State after Hamilton’s 24-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNLV<\/a> Rebels (16-14, 11-8 MWC) at San Diego State Aztecs<\/a> (19-10, 13-6 MWC)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UNLV faces San Diego State after Kimani Hamilton<\/a> scored 24 points in UNLV’s 92-65 victory over the Utah State Aggies.<\/p>\n

The Aztecs have gone 13-2 in home games. San Diego State is eighth in the MWC with 9.0 offensive rebounds per game led by Miles Heide averaging 2.0.<\/p>\n

The Rebels have gone 11-8 against MWC opponents. UNLV ranks eighth in the MWC shooting 34.4% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

San Diego State averages 79.1 points per game, 0.6 more points than the 78.5 UNLV gives up. UNLV averages 7.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 fewer made shots on average than the 9.1 per game San Diego State allows.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time in conference play this season. San Diego State won the last meeting 82-71 on Jan. 24. Miles Byrd<\/a> scored 23 points points to help lead the Aztecs to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Reese Dixon-Waters<\/a> is shooting 35.9% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Aztecs, while averaging 13 points. Byrd is averaging 10.2 points and 5.1 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn<\/a> is shooting 50.9% and averaging 20.6 points for the Rebels. Hamilton is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Aztecs: 5-5, averaging 74.9 points, 28.9 rebounds, 13.7 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Rebels: 6-4, averaging 84.1 points, 32.3 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.8 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":"UNLV Rebels (16-14, 11-8 MWC) at San Diego State Aztecs (19-10, 13-6 MWC) San Diego; Friday, 10 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4213,94953,80631,94952,8749,26731,74,76,75,304,82592],"class_list":["post-205473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-basketball","tag-dra-gibbs-lawhorn","tag-event_preview","tag-kimani-hamilton","tag-miles-byrd","tag-reese-dixon-waters","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-state-aztecs","tag-unlv-runnin-rebels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205473","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=205473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205473\/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=205473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}