{"id":101015,"date":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101015\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","slug":"no-4-ucla-faces-long-beach-state-after-rices-23-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101015\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4 UCLA faces Long Beach State after Rice&#8217;s 23-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/long-beach-state-beach-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (0-9, 0-2 Big West) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/ucla-bruins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA Bruins<\/a> (10-1, 1-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/big-ten\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Ten<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Los Angeles; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: No. 4 UCLA faces Long Beach State after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/kiki-rice-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiki Rice<\/a> scored 23 points in UCLA&#8217;s 115-28 win against the Cal Poly Mustangs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Bruins have gone 5-0 in home games. UCLA has a 10-1 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Beach are 0-4 on the road. Long Beach State is 0-8 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">UCLA&#8217;s average of 8.5 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.1 more made shots on average than the 8.4 per game Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State averages 50.2 points per game, 6.1 fewer points than the 56.3 UCLA allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/gianna-kneepkens-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gianna Kneepkens<\/a> averages 2.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Bruins, scoring 14.6 points while shooting 47.5% from beyond the arc. Rice is shooting 47.8% and averaging 15.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/jaquoia-jones-brown-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> is scoring 17.2 points per game and averaging 6.9 rebounds for the Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/judit-oliva-fernandez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judit Oliva Fernandez<\/a> is averaging 7.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (0-9, 0-2 Big West) at UCLA Bruins (10-1, 1-0 Big Ten) Los Angeles; Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-101015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}