FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Kevin Olekaibe scored 21 points and Tyler Johnson added 15 points and 10 rebounds to lead Fresno State to a 64-55 victory against UNLV on Wednesday night.
Kevin Foster had 13 points and Allen Huddleston 11 for the Bulldogs (8-13, 2-6 Mountain West), who took control of the game with a 19-6 run over an 8:30 stretch of the second half.
Anthony Marshall scored 19 points and Anthony Bennett 15 for the Runnin' Rebels (17-6, 4-4).
Johnson sparked Fresno State's decisive run, scoring 10 points. His jumper culminated the surge, giving the Bulldogs a 51-36 cushion with 6:20 remaining.
Braeden Anderson made his debut for Fresno State, going 0 for 2 from the floor with two rebounds in 12 minutes. The 6-foot-9 freshman came to Fresno State after failing to gain Big 12 approval as a partial qualifier at Kansas in 2011 and had to sit out the first 20 games of this season due to NCAA transfer rules.
The Bulldogs snapped a four-game losing streak.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| UNLV (17-6) | 24 | 31 | 55 |
| Fresno State (8-13) « | 24 | 40 | 64 |
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| UNLV Rebels | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Bennett, F | 29 | 5-16 | 5-6 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| Q. Thomas, F | 12 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| A. Marshall, G | 37 | 7-10 | 2-3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 |
| K. Reinhardt, G | 35 | 2-9 | 2-2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| B. Dejean-Jones, G | 28 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Moser | 20 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| K. Birch | 19 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| J. Hawkins | 17 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| D. Cook | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 21-60 | 9-11 | 44 | 11 | 18 | 55 | |
| 35% | 81.8% | ||||||
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| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| K. Foster, F | 28 | 5-6 | 2-4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| J. Brown, F | 21 | 0-2 | 2-6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| T. Johnson, G | 36 | 4-12 | 6-7 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| K. Olekaibe, G | 33 | 7-12 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| A. Anderson, G | 17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Huddleston | 21 | 2-10 | 6-8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| T. Giddings | 19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| M. Harris | 13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Anderson | 12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-49 | 19-30 | 35 | 9 | 10 | 64 | |
| 38.8% | 63.3% | ||||||
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