Fresno State 82, Utah 52
FRESNO, Calif. -(FS Media Relations) The Bulldogs came out firing right from the start and used an all-around team effort for a dominating 82-52 victory the Pacific-12's Utah on Saturday afternoon at the Save Mart Center.
"We knew we had to come in with a mind set to be prepared for them," head coach Rodney Terry said. "I thought we played pretty well, we had a really good effort. The guys locked in on defense."
Kevin Foster scored a career-high 16 points, Kevin Olekaibe and Steven Shepp both reached 15 points each, and Jonathan Wills added 11 for Fresno State, who never trailed in the contest.
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Idaho 94, UC Davis 74
DAVIS, Calif. -(UI Media Relations) The Idaho men's basketball team took care of business from start to finish in a 94-74 road victory over UC Davis Saturday.
The win is Idaho's third in its last four games, and the Vandals improve to 4-3 overall. UC Davis falls to 1-7 with the loss.
Idaho jumped out to a 17-point first half lead, and never trailed as it picked up its most lopsided victory of the season. The Vandals led 43-26 near the end of the first half and took a 13 point lead, 43-30, into the break.
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Louisiana Tech 73, ULM 71
MONROE, La. -(LT Media Relations) The Louisiana Tech men's basketball team (3-4) escaped with a 73-71 victory over I-20 foe Louisiana Monroe (1-7) 73-71 in front of a crowd of 2,013 as a half-court shot from the Warhawks hit off the back of the rim at the buzzer as freshman guard Raheem Appleby (Jacksonville, Ark.) scored a game-high 19 points for the Bulldogs.
The victory extended Tech's winning streak over the Warhawks to four straight with the two-point margin of victory being the closest in the series since a 63-61 Bulldog victory on Jan. 10, 1986.
In the first half neither team could take a lead larger than three for the first 10 minutes until Tech went on a 10-0 run for the next 2:39 started by Appleby with five straight points.
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Weber State 91, San Jose State 89 (2OT)
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Ogden, Utah--(SJSU Media Relations) Forward Wil Carter scored a career-high 19 points, Calvin Douglas popped for a season-high 18 points and James Kinney poured in 23 of his 28 points after halftime, but Weber State outlasted San Jose State, 91-89, in a double-overtime non-conference men's basketball game.
The Spartans (3-5) held a 67-64 lead after Kinney made two free throws with 21.2 seconds to go in the second half. Weber State's Damian Lillard, the nation's leading scorer with a 25.2 per game average, forced overtime with a 3-point basket with 5.6 seconds remaining.
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Pepperdine 73, Hawai‘i 67
MALIBU, Calif. –(UH Media Relations) The University of Hawai'i men's basketball team got off to a quick start but lost momentum in the second half in a 73-67 loss to Pepperdine Saturday night at Firestone Fieldhouse. UH dropped to 2-3 with the loss.
UH led by as many as eight points midway through the first half and the game was tied at the break. But the Waves (4-3) scored the first basket of the second half and never relinquished its lead.
Freshman point guard Shaquille Stokes led UH with 18 points while Joston Thomas added 15. Junior Hauns Brereton finished with a career-high 14 point with all his points coming in the second half.
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Pacific 65, Utah State 57
STOCKTON, Calif. -(USU Media Relations) Sophomore guard Preston Medlin scored 15 points and junior forward Kyisean Reed added 13, but Utah State dropped its second-straight game in losing at Pacific, 65-57, here Saturday to fall to 3-4 on the season. For USU, it is its first back-to-back losses since the end of the 2009-10 season as the Aggies are below .500 for the first time since it was 3-4 during the 2007-08 campaign.
Ross Rivera had 15 points and Lorenzo McCloud added 14 points, six rebounds and five steals for Pacific who improved to 3-3 with the win.
Medlin, who added a career-high eight rebounds, has now scored in double-figures four times this year and five times in his career despite shooting 4-of-14 from the field. Freshman center Jordan Stone finished with season-highs of seven points and seven rebounds in a season-best 23 minutes.
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