{"id":116330,"date":"2026-01-01T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:45:33","slug":"uc-irvine-visits-csu-bakersfield-following-evans-22-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116330\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Irvine visits CSU Bakersfield following Evans’ 22-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Irvine Anteaters<\/a> (9-5, 2-0 Big West<\/a>) at CSU<\/a> Bakersfield Roadrunners (6-8, 0-2 Big West)<\/p>\n

Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Anteaters -10.5; over\/under is 141.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UC Irvine plays CSU Bakersfield after Kyle Evans<\/a> scored 22 points in UC Irvine’s 89-70 win against the Norfolk State Spartans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Roadrunners have gone 5-2 in home games. CSU Bakersfield is 3-5 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Anteaters are 2-0 in Big West play. UC Irvine has a 1-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/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 averages 78.3 points per game, 0.7 more than the 77.6 CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents.<\/p>\n

The Roadrunners and Anteaters meet Thursday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: CJ Hardy<\/a> is averaging 14.6 points for the Roadrunners. Dailin Smith<\/a> is averaging 14.3 points and 2.5 rebounds while shooting 35.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jurian Dixon<\/a> averages 1.9 made 3-pointers per game for the Anteaters, scoring 15.3 points while shooting 38.6% from beyond the arc. Derin Saran<\/a> is shooting 42.5% and averaging 12.7 points over the past 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/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":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-116330","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116330","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=116330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116330\/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=116330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}