{"id":68988,"date":"2025-11-25T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:12:09","slug":"pepperdine-waves-and-the-fresno-state-bulldogs-play-in-palm-desert-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68988\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepperdine Waves and the Fresno State Bulldogs play in Palm Desert, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/fresno-state-bulldogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (5-2) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/pepperdine-waves-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pepperdine Waves<\/a> (3-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Palm Desert, California; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Pepperdine plays Fresno State at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Waves have a 3-3 record in non-conference play. Pepperdine is sixth in the WCC in rebounding averaging 34.7 rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/javon-cooley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javon Cooley<\/a> leads the Waves with 6.3 boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Bulldogs have a 5-2 record in non-conference games. Fresno State is 1-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 13.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Pepperdine makes 46.0% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.0 percentage points higher than Fresno State has allowed to its opponents (43.0%). Fresno State averages 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 fewer made shots on average than the 9.8 per game Pepperdine gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/aaron-clark-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Clark<\/a> is shooting 47.3% and averaging 16.3 points for the Waves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/danilo-dozic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danilo Dozic<\/a> is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jake-heidbreder-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Heidbreder<\/a> is scoring 19.0 points per game and averaging 2.9 rebounds for the Bulldogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/zaon-collins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zaon Collins<\/a> is averaging 15.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">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 (5-2) vs. Pepperdine Waves (3-3) Palm Desert, California; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Pepperdine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-68988","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\/68988","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=68988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68988\/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=68988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}