{"id":142978,"date":"2026-01-21T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142978\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:42:08","slug":"csu-fullerton-hosts-long-beach-state-following-sykes-34-point-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142978\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Fullerton hosts Long Beach State following Sykes’ 34-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (8-11, 4-3 Big West<\/a>) at CSU<\/a> Fullerton Titans (8-12, 3-5 Big West)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits CSU Fullerton after Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 34 points in Long Beach State’s 87-80 win against the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n

The Titans are 5-3 on their home court. CSU Fullerton is 5-10 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 4-3 against Big West opponents. Long Beach State is 1-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

CSU Fullerton averages 8.8 made 3-pointers per game, 1.8 more made shots than the 7.0 per game Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State averages 6.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.3 fewer made shots on average than the 10.1 per game CSU Fullerton allows.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryce Cofield is averaging 12.4 points and 5.3 rebounds for the Titans. Christian WIlliams is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sykes averages 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, scoring 18.9 points while shooting 37.9% from beyond the arc. Petar Majstorovic<\/a> is shooting 60.7% and averaging 17.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Titans: 5-5, averaging 84.7 points, 30.3 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 9.7 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Beach: 6-4, averaging 80.5 points, 29.4 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (8-11, 4-3 Big West) at CSU Fullerton Titans (8-12, 3-5 Big West) Fullerton, California;…\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":{"0":"post-142978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978","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=142978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978\/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=142978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}