Friday's report on last night's matchups

Yowza wowsa! New Mexico State 80-60 over visiting Utah State as a 46-26 second half did the job. Give the Freshman of the Year award to Daniel Mullings now as he led the southern Aggies with 17 points. Kyisean Reed paced USU with 18 points and six boards.

Sam Wasson reports while Jason Groves offers print and photos plus a video report on the outcome. From the northern Aggie perspective, Tony Jones and Shawn Harrison were in Las Cruces (a shout out to the The Salt Lake Tribune and Herald Journal execs) plus Matt Sonnenberg weighs in.

Tony also tweeted the game as did Jason.

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In overtime, it was Hawaii 74 and host Fresno State 68 as Warrior Vander Joaquim posted a 23/16 double-double while Zane Johnson totaled 24 points on 6-12 from long range. Garrett Johnson paced the Dogs with 18 markers and Kevin Olekaibe scored 15 (on 5-17 shooting). UH defender deluxe Garrett Jefferson played 43 minutes so let's look at the game reports to see if his presence was a factor.

Dayton Morinaga, Jeff Portnoy and Robert Kuwada serve up summaries. Brian McInnis tweeted the tussle.

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Idaho went into Ruston in need of a win and did just that, 90-88 in overtime versus Louisiana Tech. Kyle Barone went for 13 points and 15 boards while Deremy Geiger went for 23 (6-9 on treys), Landon Tatum 20 and Stephen Madison 18. For LT, Brandon Gibson was feeling it with a 22/13 double-double and Raheem Appleby had 19 points (17 shot attempts), Trevor Gaskins 15 and Cordarius Johnson 12.

Josh Wright has the very interesting details as does Theo Lawson and Jerit Roser.

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Nevada hosted San Jose State University and won both halves in an 81-57 victory. Jerry Evans scored 19 points to lead the Pack (an en fuego 5-6 from long distance) and his seven boards also were tops on the team. Coach David Carter's squad shot 54% overall and an amazing 16-32 from three-point land. James Kinney led the Spartans with 16 points but on 17 shot attempts.

Chris Murray supplies the details and also a notes column. Chris also tweeted the contest.