{"id":104414,"date":"2025-12-22T01:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104414\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:56:07","slug":"long-beach-state-falls-at-no-4-iowa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104414\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Falls At No. 4 Iowa State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMES, Iowa \u2013 Long Beach State outscored No. 4 Iowa State in the second half on the road, but a tremendous start from the unbeaten Cyclones gave ISU plenty of cushion as the Beach fell 91-60.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/gavin-sykes\/9440\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9440\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 19 points for Long Beach State (3-10) to once again lead the Beach, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rob-diaz-iii\/9431\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9431\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Diaz III<\/a> gave the team a boost off of the bench with 13 points, all coming in the second half.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSykes got the first basket for the Beach in the opening minute, but an 8-0 run from Iowa State (12-0) quickly opened up the contest on Sunday. The Cyclones had a dominant first half, using a later 15-0 run to take a 24-point lead. Iowa State shot 68.8% from the field in the first half and led 57-20 at the break.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe second half was considerably better for the Beach. Iowa State took their largest lead of the game at 67-24 over the first four minutes, but Long Beach State refused to break, answering with an 8-0 run of their own capped by two fast-break baskets created by steals on the defensive end.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State outshot the Cyclones 48.5 percent to 42.4 in the second half, and won the second on the scoreboard 40-34. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/petar-majstorovic\/9439\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9439\" target=\"_blank\">Petar Majstorovic<\/a> led the team on the glass with 7 rebounds. Joshua Jefferson and Blake Buchanan both had double-doubles for Iowa State, while Milan Momcilovic led the Cyclones in scoring with 27.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State will host Lincoln on December 30 in the team&#8217;s final non-conference before returning to Big West play on Saturday, January 3 by hosting Cal Poly.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa \u2013 Long Beach State outscored No. 4 Iowa State in the second half on the road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-104414","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\/104414","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=104414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}