MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) -- Nick Fazekas scored 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to help No. 11 Nevada beat Idaho 84-68 on Thursday night.

Ramon Sessions added 15 points and Marcelus Kemp 14 points as Nevada (25-2, 12-1 Western Athletic Conference) won its eighth game in a row and 18th of the past 19. The Wolf Pack have the best winning percentage in the nation.

Fazekas has 17 double-doubles this season and 58 in his career.

Idaho (3-24, 1-13 WAC) lost its 10th straight, continuing one of the worst seasons in team history. Keoni Watson led the Vandals with 27 points.

Nevada built a 16-2 lead and the Vandals could not make up the deficit, largely because they shot less than 40 percent for most of the game while the Wolf Pack made 60 percent from the field.

After trailing 50-31 at halftime, Idaho opened the second half with a 9-2 run to cut Nevada's lead to 52-40. Nevada rebuilt a 60-43 lead and the Vandals never threatened again.

In the first half, Idaho missed its first nine shots and did not make a field goal until Trevor Morris scored on a goaltending call with 14:20 left.

Nevada led 32-17 with 9:25 left, behind nine points by Fazekas.

Idaho closed to 39-27 on a pair of Watson 3-pointers. Watson had 13 points in the first.

Nevada scored the final three baskets of the first, with Fazekas stealing a pass and running the length of the floor for a layup that produced the Wolf Pack's 50-31 lead at halftime. Fazekas had 15 points and 9 rebounds in the first. Idaho had only 9 rebounds as a team in the first.

The Wolf Pack made 20-of-30 shots in the first, 66 percent, while the Vandals sank only 11-of-32, 34 percent.

The game was played in a 1,500-seat, 78-year-old bandbox called Memorial Gym because Idaho's normal home floor in the Kibbie Dome was being used Thursday for the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.

It is the fourth straight season Nevada has won at least 25 games.

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