{"id":133083,"date":"2026-01-14T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133083\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:38:10","slug":"uc-riverside-visits-long-beach-state-following-hendersons-27-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133083\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Riverside visits Long Beach State following Henderson’s 27-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Riverside Highlanders<\/a> (6-11, 1-4 Big West<\/a>) at Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (6-11, 2-3 Big West)<\/p>\n

Long Beach, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside faces Long Beach State after Andrew Henderson<\/a> scored 27 points in UC Riverside’s 69-66 loss to the UCSD Tritons.<\/p>\n

The Beach are 6-3 on their home court. Long Beach State ranks eighth in the Big West with 13.9 assists per game led by Rob Diaz III<\/a> averaging 3.2.<\/p>\n

The Highlanders have gone 1-4 against Big West opponents. UC Riverside is ninth in the Big West with 8.2 offensive rebounds per game led by BJ Kolly averaging 1.8.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State is shooting 45.6% from the field this season, 2.1 percentage points lower than the 47.7% UC Riverside allows to opponents. UC Riverside averages 71.5 points per game, 5.6 fewer points than the 77.1 Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n

The Beach and Highlanders square off Thursday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sykes<\/a> is averaging 18.2 points for the Beach. Petar Majstorovic<\/a> is averaging 16.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Marqui Worthy is averaging 13.4 points for the Highlanders. Henderson is averaging 16.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 5-5, averaging 78.3 points, 28.8 rebounds, 15.3 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Highlanders: 2-8, averaging 68.5 points, 29.1 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 4.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 42.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.7 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":"UC Riverside Highlanders (6-11, 1-4 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (6-11, 2-3 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-133083","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\/133083","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=133083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133083\/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=133083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}