UCSB Gauchos (9-7, 2-3 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-10, 2-4 Big West)<\/p>\n
Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: UCSB faces CSU Bakersfield after Miro Little scored 20 points in UCSB’s 93-86 loss to the UC Davis Aggies.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners are 6-3 in home games. CSU Bakersfield has a 4-7 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos are 2-3 in Big West play. UCSB ranks sixth in the Big West with 15.1 assists per game led by Aidan Mahaney averaging 2.8.<\/p>\n
CSU Bakersfield’s average of 5.1 made 3-pointers per game is 2.3 fewer made shots on average than the 7.4 per game UCSB allows. UCSB averages 8.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 7.2 per game CSU Bakersfield gives up.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners and Gauchos square off Thursday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Dailin Smith is shooting 34.2% and averaging 15.1 points for the Roadrunners. Jaden Alexander is averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mahaney is shooting 43.7% and averaging 15.0 points for the Gauchos. Zion Sensley is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Roadrunners: 4-6, averaging 74.2 points, 30.9 rebounds, 10.7 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 42.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Gauchos: 5-5, averaging 77.0 points, 31.4 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 7.1 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.0 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCSB Gauchos (9-7, 2-3 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-10, 2-4 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 9:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68138,847,151,153,152,2454,4213,1327,24795,127],"class_list":["post-133135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-68138","tag-article","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133135","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=133135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}