UC Irvine Anteaters (13-2, 4-0 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (1-12, 0-3 Big West)<\/p>\n
Long Beach, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: UC Irvine visits Long Beach State after Hunter Hernandez scored 26 points in UC Irvine’s 64-51 win over the CSU Fullerton Titans.<\/p>\n
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The Beach are 1-6 in home games. Long Beach State is fifth in the Big West with 8.7 offensive rebounds per game led by JaQuoia Jones-Brown averaging 1.9.<\/p>\n
The Anteaters are 4-0 in Big West play. UC Irvine averages 13.6 turnovers per game and is 10-0 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State averages 50.5 points per game, 7.2 fewer points than the 57.7 UC Irvine allows. UC Irvine averages 8.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 more makes per game than Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jones-Brown is averaging 17.1 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Beach. Judit Oliva Fernandez is averaging 6.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Hernandez is scoring 19.1 points per game and averaging 6.1 rebounds for the Anteaters. Jada Wynn is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 1-9, averaging 52.3 points, 31.2 rebounds, 11.1 assists, 6.7 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 34.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Anteaters: 10-0, averaging 75.1 points, 35.0 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 10.6 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 41.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 55.0 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Irvine Anteaters (13-2, 4-0 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (1-12, 0-3 Big West) Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,7,64691,131,133,132,1817,26043,21125,35412,44102],"class_list":["post-123638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-california","tag-hunter-hernandez","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-long-beach-state-beach","tag-points-per-game","tag-uc-irvine","tag-uc-irvine-anteaters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123638","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=123638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}