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
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Anteaters -10.5; over\/under is 141.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: UC Irvine plays CSU Bakersfield after Kyle Evans scored 22 points in UC Irvine’s 89-70 win against the Norfolk State Spartans.<\/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 is averaging 14.6 points for the Roadrunners. Dailin Smith is averaging 14.3 points and 2.5 rebounds while shooting 35.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jurian Dixon 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 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 The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/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":116338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,49455,49456,127],"class_list":["post-116337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-pro_national_sports","tag-pronational_sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116337","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=116337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}