No. 4 San Diego St remains unbeaten with 71-67 勝利，勝つ over UNLV
LAS VEGAS (AP) - While remaining the country's only unbeaten team was important to the San Diego 明言する／公表する Aztecs, they had another milestone on their minds Sunday.
"It was important because we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 攻撃する，衝突する 21-0 and make (school) history," junior Trey Pulliam said.
使節団 遂行するd.
Malachi Flynn 得点する／非難する／２０d 21 points, Pulliam 追加するd a career-high 18 points and the fourth-階級d Aztecs (21-0, 10-0 Mountain West) 突き破るd off UNLV's second-half 決起大会／結集させる to 勝利，勝つ 71-67 and break the school 記録，記録的な／記録するs for best start and longest winning streak in the program´s 99 seasons.
Jordan Schakel 与える／捧げるd 11 points for the Aztecs. San Diego 明言する／公表する had won 20 straight games twice before - during the 2010-11 and 2013-14 seasons. The latter team made the 甘い 16 of the NCAA Tournament and finished 31-5.
Bryce Hamilton 得点する／非難する／２０d 29 points to lead UNLV (11-11, 6-3). 統治するing Mountain West Player of the Week Marvin Coleman chipped in with 11 points.
San Diego 明言する／公表する's Matt Mitchell (11) goes for the 封鎖する against UNLV's Marvin Coleman (31) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
"We knew they played hard, they been playing 広大な／多数の／重要な to start 会議／協議会 play," Flynn said of the Runnin' 反逆者／反逆するs. "We knew it was gonna be a good 実験（する）. They fought hard for sure. We know when we come out everybody is going to give us their best 発射. It's gonna help us in the long run. We know they're gonna come in and try to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 a 最高の，を越す-four team."
Which UNLV certainly did, using a 12-4 run to open the second half. The Runnin' 反逆者／反逆するs took the lead - their first since the game's first basket - with 13:28 left when Cheikh Mbacke Diong's bucket made it 40-38. That seemed to awaken the Aztecs, who went on a 15-7 run to lead 55-47 with 4:54 left.
"It's college basketball, everyone has a run in them and (UNLV coach) TJ (Otzelberger) has done a 広大な／多数の／重要な 職業 with his team," San Diego 明言する／公表する coach Brian Dutcher said. "We knew they were ready for this moment, 原因（となる） we'd seen it many times with TJ's club, they get better and better. They played the 権利 way, they were rewarded for it, but at the end of the day we made enough timely plays and important plays to get out of here with the 勝利，勝つ."
特に on 弁護, as the Aztecs did a good 職業 at locking in defensively late and 持つ／拘留するing the 反逆者／反逆するs scoreless for more than five minutes, にもかかわらず the 反逆者／反逆するs 狙撃 46.4% from the 床に打ち倒す in the second half.
"We knew we were gonna have to play our 絶対の best to 勝利，勝つ today," Otzelberger said. "I thought our fight was there. I thought our 競争の激しい spirit was there. There was a few 重要な plays, 確かな moments we didn't finish plays on the glass or get the stop that we needed. Had we done that, probably would have been a different story there at the end of the game."
UNLV's 競争の激しい spirit was 明らかな from the 開始 tip, as it opened the game by taking a page out San Diego 明言する／公表する's 防御の playbook, 限界ing space for the Aztecs to operate and keeping the game の近くに. But it didn't take long for the nation's fourth-best 得点する／非難する／２０ing 弁護 to 答える／応じる by stifling the Runnin' 反逆者／反逆するs and using a quick 6-0 run to open an 18-9 lead.
The Aztecs, who 階級 fifth in the nation in 限界ing …に反対するing teams to just 36.7% 狙撃 from the 床に打ち倒す, held UNLV to 11 of 27 狙撃, 含むing 2 for 12 (16.7%) from 3-point 範囲.
Pulliam 攻撃する，衝突する his career 示す with 10 first-half points, 最高潮に達するing with a buzzer-（警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing jumper that gave the Aztecs a 34-28 lead at halftime.
It was San Diego 明言する／公表する's fifth straight 勝利，勝つ over UNLV and eighth 連続した road victory. San Diego 明言する／公表する's 25 victories over UNLV since the start of the 2008-09 （選挙などの）運動をする are tied for the most 勝利，勝つs by any 分割 I school against another team.
The Aztecs are 10-1 against UNLV at the Thomas & Mack 中心, while the 残り／休憩（する） of the country is 30-65.
24 SECONDS
It took 24 seconds from the moment longtime UNLV public 演説（する）／住所 announcer 刑事 Calvert requested a moment of silence for Kobe Bryant, to the 続いて起こるing "Kobe!" 詠唱する from the 発表するd （人が）群がる of 12,287 to finish. Bryant died Sunday in a ヘリコプター 衝突，墜落 in Calabasas, California, along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Bryant wore No. 24 for the Los Angeles Lakers, who たびたび（訪れる）d the Thomas & Mack 中心 for preseason games during Bryant's career.
BIG PICTURE
San Diego 明言する／公表する: Flynn continued to be a menace in the house of others. The All-American and 国家の Player of the Year 候補者 is 普通の／平均（する）ing just 13.9 points in 11 home games, but is now 普通の／平均（する）ing 19.9 in road and 中立の-場所／位置 games.
"I think the road is more fun to be honest, just playing in somebody else's （人が）群がる. Getting a 勝利，勝つ on somebody else's 床に打ち倒す, it feels a lot better," Flynn said.
UNLV: The Runnin' 反逆者／反逆するs long-範囲 game continued to struggle. 階級d 276th going into the game with a 3-point 百分率 of 31.5, UNLV 攻撃する，衝突する 30.8% (8 of 2 6) from beyond the arc.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
San Diego 明言する／公表する should be 安全な at No. 4 in the AP 最高の，を越す 25 after going 2-0 this week.
HONORING KAWHI
San Diego 明言する／公表する will retire NBA 支持する／優勝者 and former Aztec Kawhi Leonard's jersey at halftime of its next home game, on Feb. 1 against Utah 明言する／公表する. Leonard was part of the 2010-11 team that went 34-3 and and the first in program history to reach the 甘い 16.
MORE 3S, PLEASE
UNLV 延長するd its NCAA 記録，記録的な／記録する of making at least one 3-pointer in a game to 1,092 straight games. The Runnin' 反逆者／反逆するs have made at least one 3-pointer in every game since the NCAA 可決する・採択するd the 発射 for the 1986-87 season.
UP NEXT
San Diego 明言する／公表する travels to New Mexico on Wednesday.
UNLV travels to Colorado 明言する／公表する on Saturday.
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San Diego 明言する／公表する 長，率いる Coach Brian Dutcher 会談 to players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
San Diego 明言する／公表する's Yanni Wetzell (5) 運動s to the 縁 against UNLV's Nick Blair (20) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
UNLV's Bryce Hamilton (13) 運動 against San Diego 明言する／公表する's Jordan Schakel (20) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
UNLV's Marvin Coleman (31) 反応するs during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
San Diego 明言する／公表する's Trey Pulliam (4) goes for the layup against UNLV during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
San Diego 明言する／公表する's KJ Feagin (10) defends against UNLV's Amauri Hardy (3) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz)
