UCSD Tritons (13-5, 3-3 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-11, 2-5 Big West)<\/p>\n
Bakersfield, California; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: UCSD plays CSU Bakersfield after Alex Chaikin scored 22 points in UCSD’s 84-79 loss to the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n
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The Roadrunners have gone 6-4 in home games. CSU Bakersfield allows 77.3 points to opponents and has been outscored by 4.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Tritons are 3-3 in Big West play. UCSD ranks third in the Big West allowing 71.9 points while holding opponents to 42.5% shooting.<\/p>\n
CSU Bakersfield’s average of 4.9 made 3-pointers per game is 3.9 fewer made shots on average than the 8.8 per game UCSD allows. UCSD has shot at a 47.7% clip from the field this season, 2.5 percentage points greater than the 45.2% shooting opponents of CSU Bakersfield have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Dailin Smith averages 1.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Roadrunners, scoring 14.9 points while shooting 23.5% from beyond the arc. CJ Hardy is averaging 13.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Leo Beath is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Tritons. Bol Dengdit is averaging 12.1 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Roadrunners: 4-6, averaging 74.5 points, 30.3 rebounds, 10.5 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Tritons: 6-4, averaging 77.2 points, 34.5 rebounds, 14.6 assists, 6.9 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.0 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":"UCSD Tritons (13-5, 3-3 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-11, 2-5 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Saturday, 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[69332,151,153,152,7,23314,25303,21125,32007],"class_list":["post-136066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-alex-chaikin","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-csu-bakersfield","tag-csu-bakersfield-roadrunners","tag-points-per-game","tag-ucsd-tritons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136066","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=136066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136066\/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=136066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}