CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (5-9, 0-4 Big West) at UC Riverside Highlanders (4-9, 2-1 Big West)<\/p>\n
Riverside, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside faces CSU Bakersfield after Hannah Wickstrom scored 36 points in UC Riverside’s 65-58 victory over the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine.<\/p>\n
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The Highlanders have gone 3-3 in home games. UC Riverside is 3-4 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners are 0-4 in Big West play. CSU Bakersfield ranks ninth in the Big West allowing 67.6 points while holding opponents to 42.8% shooting.<\/p>\n
UC Riverside’s average of 6.5 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.9 more made shots on average than the 5.6 per game CSU Bakersfield gives up. CSU Bakersfield’s 35.8% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.5 percentage points lower than UC Riverside has allowed to its opponents (39.3%).<\/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: Wickstrom is scoring 20.8 points per game and averaging 6.9 rebounds for the Highlanders. Kaylani Polk is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tena Ikidi is averaging 7.5 points and 8.6 rebounds for the Roadrunners. Chrishawn Coleman is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Highlanders: 4-6, averaging 62.6 points, 28.9 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 11.5 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 37.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Roadrunners: 5-5, averaging 65.5 points, 34.4 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 9.7 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 36.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.1 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (5-9, 0-4 Big West) at UC Riverside Highlanders (4-9, 2-1 Big West) Riverside, California; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,23314,25303,64737,21125,8634,64736,36605,49210,64735],"class_list":["post-123805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-csu-bakersfield","tag-csu-bakersfield-roadrunners","tag-hannah-wickstrom","tag-points-per-game","tag-riverside","tag-the-highlanders","tag-the-roadrunners","tag-uc-riverside","tag-uc-riverside-highlanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123805","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=123805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123805\/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=123805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}