UC Irvine Anteaters (9-5, 2-0 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (6-8, 0-2 Big West)<\/p>\n
Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield takes on UC Irvine after CJ Hardy scored 20 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 64-63 win against the Idaho Vandals.<\/p>\n
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The Roadrunners are 5-2 on their home court. CSU Bakersfield is 4-7 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Anteaters have gone 2-0 against Big West opponents. UC Irvine scores 78.3 points and has outscored opponents by 11.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
CSU Bakersfield makes 42.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.9 percentage points higher than UC Irvine has allowed to its opponents (37.6%). UC Irvine has shot at a 46.5% clip from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points above the 45.0% shooting opponents of CSU Bakersfield have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners and Anteaters meet Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Dailin Smith is averaging 16 points for the Roadrunners. Mike Price is averaging 1.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jurian Dixon is scoring 15.3 points per game and averaging 3.4 rebounds for the Anteaters. Derin Saran is averaging 12.7 points and 4.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Roadrunners: 4-6, averaging 74.3 points, 30.4 rebounds, 10.4 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Anteaters: 6-4, averaging 70.1 points, 34.7 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 6.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.9 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Irvine Anteaters (9-5, 2-0 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (6-8, 0-2 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,4365,7,23314,25303,17683,24044,21125,35412,44102],"class_list":{"0":"post-115919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-big-west","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-csu-bakersfield","14":"tag-csu-bakersfield-roadrunners","15":"tag-idaho-vandals","16":"tag-percentage-points","17":"tag-points-per-game","18":"tag-uc-irvine","19":"tag-uc-irvine-anteaters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115919","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=115919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115919\/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=115919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}