Kevin Olekaibe found it ever so briefly the other night, knocking down all six of the shots he took in a loss at Colorado State, every one of them at the 3-point line.

It was, by far, the best game the Fresno State guard has had shooting the basketball this season and, well, yeah, something much more modest would have done the trick there, too. After missing much of the summer and parts of preseason practice because of an elbow injury, Olekaibe has never really got himself untracked and had some rather unsightly stat lines, including a 3 of 15 at Texas, a 3 of 12 against Long Beach State, a 2 of 11 at New Mexico and 1 of 8s at San Diego State and Nevada.

This season, he has made only 36% of his shots and 36.7% of his 3-pointers.

But in going 6 of 6, Olekaibe tied the Mountain West Conference record for 3-point field goal percentage in a game as well as the school record, a mark that has now been hit three times. The Bulldogs' Kendric Brooks had been the most recent to do it, on Dec. 1, 1995, in a 66-49 victory over Maine.

The closest Olekaibe had come to such perfection?

A high-volume shooter, Olekaibe had hit better than 50% of his shots in only nine of his first 90 career games, the best a 58.8% (10 of 17) in scoring 28 points last season in a loss at Boise State.

As good as that 6 of 6 was, though, it was not the best shooting game in the MW this season.

Or even last week.

One night before Olekaibe went 6 of 6, Wyoming guard Nathan Sobey came off the bench in a loss at Air Force and made 7 of 7 shots, including 6 of 6 at the 3-point line, and 2 of 2 at the free-throw line in scoring 22 points. He didn't miss -- anything. He took nine shots, and had nine makes.

Believe it or not, perfect from the floor, perfect from the 3-point line and perfect from the free-throw line had happened only two times in the conference all season.

And those two were not close to Sobey -- San Diego State guard Labradford Franklin was 1 of 1, 1 of 1 and 2 of 2 in a victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, and Wyoming guard Jason McManamen had a 3 of 3, 2 of 2 and 2 of 2 line in a victory at Cal State Bakersfield.

Sobey had scored only six points over the Cowboys' nine previous games -- he went into Clune Arena averaging only 2.4 shots per game. And, he followed it up by going 0 of 4 in 17 minutes in a loss at New Mexico, so maybe it should not come as too much of a surprise that so few had not missed.

There have been some players to come close -- the three other players to go 6 of 6 in a game this season are Anthony Marshall from UNLV, Colton Iverson from Colorado State and Derek Cooke from Wyoming; Marshall was 6 of 6 and 2 of 2 on 3-pointers, but didn't take a free throw in a victory over Northern Arizona, Iverson was 6 of 6, did not take a 3-pointer and was 3 of 5 from the line in a victory at Air Force, and Cooke was 6 of 6, did not take a 3-pointer and was 0 of 1 from the line in a win at Northern Colorado.

Olekaibe, at Colorado State, did not attempt a free throw.

The Mountain West record for field-goal percentage in a game is 1.000 -- Billy White from San Diego State went 12 of 12 against Wyoming on Feb. 14, 2009, and Aerick Sanders from San Diego State went 11 of 11 in a win against Eastern Washington on Dec. 20, 2003.

This week for the 'Dogs

Saturday at UNLV, 3 p.m., at the Thomas and Mack Center: The Rebels have won four in a row with victories over San Diego State and Colorado State and at Wyoming and at Nevada. The latter two might not impress, but, remember, UNLV has had a wretched record in conference road games. Fresno State beat the Rebels at the Save Mart Center last month, UNLV hitting only 19% of its 3-pointers (4 of 21) and turning over the ball 15 times.