{"id":84530,"date":"2025-12-07T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84530\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:25:07","slug":"acuff-scores-18-points-to-lead-no-25-arkansas-over-fresno-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84530\/","title":{"rendered":"Acuff scores 18 points to lead No. 25 Arkansas over Fresno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) \u2014 Darius Acuff Jr. scored 18 points to lead No. 25 Arkansas to an 82-58 win over Fresno State on Saturday at Simmons Bank Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arkansas (7-2) followed up its victory over No. 6 Louisville with a second straight win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Razorbacks blew open the game with a 22-6 run to open the second half and led by as many as 32 points. They outscored Fresno State 26-11 in transition and went 11 for 30 (36.7%) from 3-point range compared to the Bulldogs\u2019 4 for 26 (15.4%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meleek Thomas and DJ Wagner each scored 12 points while Karter Knox contributed 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jac Mani and Wilson Hacques each scored 12 points for Fresno State (6-4).<\/p>\n<p>Big picture<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fresno State has lost back-to-back games after a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arkansas, coming off its 89-80 home win over Louisville in the ACC\/SEC Challenge on Wednesday, has won six of its last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fresno State will remain on the road for a matchup against Cal State-Northridge on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arkansas will face No. 19 Texas Tech on Dec. 13 on a neutral court in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/12\/07\/acuff-scores-18-points-lead-no-25-arkansas-over-fresno-state\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) \u2014 Darius Acuff Jr. scored 18 points to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[549,47695,2473,1815,1327,47696,112,114,113,742,26767,9591,47697,127,16174],"class_list":["post-84530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-arkansas","tag-baasketball","tag-bulldogs","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-fayetteville","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state","tag-mens","tag-ncaa","tag-razorbacks","tag-sports","tag-top-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84530","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=84530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}