CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-9, 2-3 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (5-11, 1-3 Big West)<\/p>\n
Long Beach, California; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield plays Long Beach State after Dailin Smith scored 30 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 67-66 victory over the UC Riverside Highlanders.<\/p>\n
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The Beach have gone 5-3 at home. Long Beach State gives up 77.2 points and has been outscored by 3.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners are 2-3 in conference play. CSU Bakersfield has a 3-0 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State’s average of 6.6 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.6 fewer made shots on average than the 7.2 per game CSU Bakersfield gives up. CSU Bakersfield averages 5.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.4 fewer made shots on average than the 7.4 per game Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n
The Beach and Roadrunners match up Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sykes is shooting 37.1% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, while averaging 18 points. Petar Majstorovic is averaging 16.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.4 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Smith is scoring 15.9 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Roadrunners. Ron Jessamy is averaging 12.5 points and 5.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 4-6, averaging 77.5 points, 27.8 rebounds, 15.1 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Roadrunners: 5-5, averaging 74.3 points, 30.9 rebounds, 9.7 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.2 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":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-9, 2-3 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (5-11, 1-3 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":[174,7,23314,25303,31913,131,133,132,1817,26043,21125,36605],"class_list":["post-127238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-california","tag-csu-bakersfield","tag-csu-bakersfield-roadrunners","tag-dailin-smith","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-the-roadrunners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127238","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=127238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127238\/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=127238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}