When it rains, it really does pour; the Beach's myriad troubles continued on Saturday at the Pyramid, when the formerly-called 49ers had Fresno State pinned to an 11-point deficit with 2:30 to play only to see the Bulldogs outscore then 14-0 the rest of the way to the wire to steal a 72-69 win. The Beach now works on five losses in a row for new HC Chris Acker, who has a completely different team than the last time Beach visited Henderson in March (under departing Dan Monson) to win the Big West Tourney. This hastily-assembled group of portal adds is scoring only 66 ppg and barely hitting 41% from the arc as it relies upon much-traveled G Devin Askew (via Kentucky-Texas-Cal; 16.7 ppg) to carry the scoring burden. Meanwhile, UNCG impressed in a combative effort at Indiana when hanging within earshot of the Hoosiers last Thursday despite hitting only 32% from the floor. Mike Jones is getting some good use from his portal adds, including ex-Radford PG Kenyon Giles (14 ppg) and ex-George Mason G Ronald Polite III (12 ppg; 52% FGs). Play UNCG (at Henderson, Nv)