{"id":117281,"date":"2026-01-02T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:14:13","slug":"uc-irvine-81-77-cal-state-bakersfield-jan-1-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117281\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Irvine 81-77 Cal State Bakersfield (Jan 1, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4711267\/jurian-dixon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jurian Dixon<\/a> scored 26 points as UC Irvine beat Cal State Bakersfield 81-77 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              Dixon shot 8 for 13 (6 for 7 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line for the Anteaters (10-5, 3-0 Big West Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105615\/harrison-carrington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Carrington<\/a> scored 11 points while shooting 4 of 6 from the field and 3 for 4 from the line. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4702629\/andre-henry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Henry<\/a> shot 3 of 6 from the field and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>              Ron Jessamy finished with 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Roadrunners (6-9, 0-3). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241841\/cj-hardy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Hardy<\/a> added 14 points for Cal State Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Jurian Dixon scored 26 points as UC Irvine beat Cal State Bakersfield 81-77 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-117281","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\/117281","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=117281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}