{"id":118647,"date":"2026-01-03T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:17:09","slug":"long-beach-state-faces-cal-poly-following-jones-browns-23-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118647\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State faces Cal Poly following Jones-Brown\u2019s 23-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State Beach (1-11, 0-2 Big West) at Cal Poly Mustangs (2-11, 0-3 Big West) San Luis Obispo, California;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State Beach (1-11, 0-2 Big West) at Cal Poly Mustangs (2-11, 0-3 Big West)<\/p>\n<p>San Luis Obispo, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits Cal Poly after JaQuoia Jones-Brown scored 23 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 68-62 victory over the Hope International Royals.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs are 2-3 on their home court. Cal Poly gives up 74.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 17.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach are 0-2 against conference opponents. Long Beach State is 0-1 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 17.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Poly is shooting 38.0% from the field this season, 5.1 percentage points lower than the 43.1% Long Beach State allows to opponents. Long Beach State\u2019s 33.1% shooting percentage from the field this season is 10.4 percentage points lower than Cal Poly has given up to its opponents (43.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs and Beach match up Saturday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Vanessa McManus is averaging 19.4 points and 5.4 rebounds for the Mustangs. Charish Thompson is averaging 11.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Jones-Brown is shooting 41.9% and averaging 17.4 points for the Beach. Brynna Pukis is averaging 1.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Mustangs: 1-9, averaging 53.6 points, 28.9 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 5.1 steals and 1.4 blocks per game while shooting 35.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Beach: 1-9, averaging 53.4 points, 32.8 rebounds, 11.6 assists, 6.2 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 34.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.7 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/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<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (1-11, 0-2 Big West) at Cal Poly Mustangs (2-11, 0-3 Big West) San Luis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-118647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647","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=118647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}