Long Beach State Beach (3-9, 0-2 Big West) at Iowa State Cyclones (11-0)<\/p>\n
Ames, Iowa; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits No. 4 Iowa State after Gavin Sykes scored 23 points in Long Beach State’s 81-78 victory over the Pepperdine Waves.<\/p>\n
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The Cyclones are 6-0 on their home court. Iowa State is 9-0 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Beach are 0-6 in road games. Long Beach State is 3-4 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 11.8 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
Iowa State scores 90.5 points, 12.3 more per game than the 78.2 Long Beach State allows. Long Beach State averages 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 fewer makes per game than Iowa State allows.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Joshua Jefferson is scoring 17.5 points per game and averaging 6.7 rebounds for the Cyclones. Milan Momcilovic is averaging 16.4 points and 3.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Sykes is shooting 38.0% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, while averaging 17.6 points. Petar Majstorovic is shooting 50.5% and averaging 15.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cyclones: 10-0, averaging 90.7 points, 30.9 rebounds, 18.3 assists, 11.0 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 53.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Beach: 3-7, averaging 76.9 points, 28.5 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 7.1 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.9 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (3-9, 0-2 Big West) at Iowa State Cyclones (11-0) Ames, Iowa; Sunday, 6 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29643,56322,13682,131,133,132,1817,41509,21125],"class_list":["post-103709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-iowa-state","tag-iowa-state-cyclones","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-pepperdine-waves","tag-points-per-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103709","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=103709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}