Long Beach State Beach (7-11, 3-3 Big West) at CSU Northridge Matadors (11-8, 4-3 Big West)<\/p>\n
Northridge, California; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Northridge hosts Long Beach State after Josiah Davis scored 23 points in CSU Northridge’s 84-79 win over the UCSD Tritons.<\/p>\n
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The Matadors have gone 8-0 in home games. CSU Northridge averages 13.0 turnovers per game and is 4-1 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n
The Beach are 3-3 in Big West play. Long Beach State gives up 76.8 points to opponents while being outscored by 1.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
CSU Northridge averages 81.1 points per game, 4.3 more points than the 76.8 Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State has shot at a 46.2% rate from the field this season, 3.8 percentage points higher than the 42.4% shooting opponents of CSU Northridge have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Matadors and Beach match up Saturday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Larry Hughes Jr. is shooting 40.9% from beyond the arc with 3.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Matadors, while averaging 18.4 points and 1.9 steals. Davis is averaging 16.1 points and 6.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Gavin Sykes is averaging 18.1 points for the Beach. Petar Majstorovic is averaging 17.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.3 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Matadors: 7-3, averaging 85.7 points, 37.8 rebounds, 18.6 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Beach: 5-5, averaging 79.5 points, 29.8 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.6 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":"Long Beach State Beach (7-11, 3-3 Big West) at CSU Northridge Matadors (11-8, 4-3 Big West) Northridge, California;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,45674,47030,131,133,132,1817,25567,21125,45675],"class_list":["post-136551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-csu-northridge","tag-josiah-davis","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-northridge","tag-points-per-game","tag-the-matadors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136551","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=136551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136551\/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=136551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}