Cal Poly Mustangs (6-9, 2-1 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (4-10, 0-2 Big West)<\/p>\n
Long Beach, California; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State plays Cal Poly after Gavin Sykes scored 21 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 113-66 win against the Lincoln (CA) Oaklanders.<\/p>\n
The Beach are 4-3 on their home court. Long Beach State is 2-4 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs are 2-1 in conference play. Cal Poly is second in the Big West scoring 81.7 points per game and is shooting 42.6%.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State\u2019s average of 6.9 made 3-pointers per game is 3.0 fewer made shots on average than the 9.9 per game Cal Poly gives up. Cal Poly\u2019s 42.6% shooting percentage from the field this season is 6.9 percentage points lower than Long Beach State has given up to its opponents (49.5%).<\/p>\n
The Beach and Mustangs square off Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Petar Majstorovic is averaging 13.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Beach. Sykes is averaging 20.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Hamad Mousa is shooting 41.7% from beyond the arc with 2.9 made 3-pointers per game for the Mustangs, while averaging 21 points and 6.1 rebounds. Peter Bandelj is shooting 46.6% and averaging 16.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 4-6, averaging 79.6 points, 28.8 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 8.2 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mustangs: 4-6, averaging 82.6 points, 35.7 rebounds, 12.1 assists, 5.9 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.1 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":"Cal Poly Mustangs (6-9, 2-1 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (4-10, 0-2 Big West) Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,4213,1327,29643,131,133,132,24795,62708,127],"class_list":["post-118250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-peter-bandelj","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118250","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=118250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}