{"id":119596,"date":"2026-01-04T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:08:19","slug":"long-beach-state-faces-cal-poly-following-sykes-21-point-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/119596\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State faces Cal Poly following Sykes’ 21-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cal Poly Mustangs<\/a> (6-9, 2-1 Big West<\/a>) at Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (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<\/a> scored 21 points in Long Beach State’s 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’s 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’s 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<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/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":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-119596","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\/119596","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=119596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119596\/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=119596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}