{"id":74085,"date":"2025-11-29T05:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/74085\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:28:08","slug":"vance-walberg-talks-fresno-states-6-2-start-return-to-selland-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/74085\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Walberg talks Fresno State&#8217;s 6-2 start, Return to Selland game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State is off to the best start for a men&#8217;s basketball campaign since the 2021-22 season, which was the last time the Bulldogs reached the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a 6-2 record after racing past Pepperdine on Thanksgiving Eve, 76-53, the Bulldogs matched last season&#8217;s win total in only 24 days.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Fresno State takes a 4-game winning streak to Selland Arena for the first Bulldog basketball game in downtown Fresno since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off against CSU Bakersfield is scheduled for 3 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Selland Arena was the Bulldogs&#8217; home from 1966 to 2003, and the building became synonymous with winning. Fresno State won six conference titles and an NIT championship while playing men&#8217;s basketball at Selland.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Vance Walberg spoke with FOX26 on Friday afternoon to discuss the Bulldogs&#8217; improved play in his second season in charge, plus why he hopes a packed Selland Arena awaits his team.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Return to Selland game are still available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/the-return-to-selland-fresno-california-11-30-2025\/event\/1C00634FD7EBC5F9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno State is off to the best start for a men&#8217;s basketball campaign since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-74085","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\/74085","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=74085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}