Long Beach State Beach (8-11, 4-3 Big West) at CSU 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 scored 34 points in Long Beach State’s 87-80 win against the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n
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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
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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 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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,71848,45674,2628,29643,131,133,132,1817,51925],"class_list":{"0":"post-143489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-csu-fullerton","10":"tag-csu-northridge","11":"tag-fullerton","12":"tag-gavin-sykes","13":"tag-long-beach","14":"tag-long-beach-headlines","15":"tag-long-beach-news","16":"tag-long-beach-state","17":"tag-the-titans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143489","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=143489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143489\/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=143489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}