Live: Follow Boise State men's basketball at UNLV
Live: Follow Boise State men's basketball at UNLV. The Boise State men's basketball team faces UNLV on Saturday in the Broncos' Mountain West Conference road opener at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Tipoff is 9 p.m. MT, and the game will be broadcast by AT&T SportsNet, which is available in the Rocky Mountain and Southwest AT&T SportsNet Regions. ROOT SPORTS Northwest also will air the game.
The Rebels (11-2, 0-0) enter Saturday's game with the top scoring offense in the conference, averaging 91.2 points per game (No. 7 in the NCAA).
UNLV's two bigs — Brandon McCoy (18.9 ppg, 10.9 rpg) and Shakur Juiston (15.2 ppg, 110 rpg) — both are averaging a double-double.
Chandler Hutchison scored eight of his season-high 32 points in the final three minutes and Zach Haney had his first career double-double to help Boise State beat UNLV 83-74 on Saturday night.
Hutchinson was 13-of-18 shooting, including 3 of 3 from 3-point range, and Haney finished with 11 points and a career-high 11 rebounds.
There were eight ties and 10 lead changes, and neither team led by more than five points, in the first half before UNLV (11-3, 0-1 Mountain West) took a 37-35 advantage into the break.
Shakur Juiston scored six points in a row to give the Runnin Rebels a six-point lead early in the second half, but they missed their next 10 field-goal attempts and Boise State (12-2, 2-0) answered with a 23-4 run to take control.
Hutchison scored nine points during that span, including a 3-pointer that capped the spurt and made it 60-47 with just more than 11 minutes to go.
Brandon McCoys jumper trimmed UNLVs deficit to 73-67 with three minutes left, but Hutchison alone outscored the Rebels 8-7 from there to seal it.
Juiston finished with 25 points and Jordan Johnson scored 20 for UNLV. McCoy added 16 and 10 rebounds, giving the freshman 10 double-doubles in 14 career games.
Boise State improved to 8-7 all-time, and has won six of its last seven games, against the Rebels.
UNLV came in shooting 52.4 percent from the field, third best in Division I, but shot a season-low 40.3 percent (27 of 67) on Saturday, including 6 of 22 from 3-point range.
Juiston and McCoy combined for 17-of-23 shooting while the other UNLV starters were 9-of-37 (24.3 percent). The Broncos came in averaging 11.3 made 3s per game (No. 9 nationally), but hit a season-low tying five 3-pointers on 13 attempts against UNLV.
Boise State, however, shot nearly 51 percent overall and outrebounded the Rebels 48-29. UNLV came in ranked No. 29 nationally in rebound margin (plus-7.9) and No. 4 in total rebounds per game (43.92).
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