{"id":146139,"date":"2026-01-23T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:24:08","slug":"long-beach-state-hosts-ucsb-following-sensleys-20-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146139\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State hosts UCSB following Sensley’s 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCSB<\/a> Gauchos (12-7, 5-3 Big West<\/a>) at Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (8-12, 4-4 Big West)<\/p>\n

Long Beach, California; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UCSB takes on Long Beach State after Zion Sensley<\/a> scored 20 points in UCSB’s 107-67 victory against the Cal Poly Mustangs.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 7-3 at home. Long Beach State gives up 76.7 points and has been outscored by 1.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Gauchos are 5-3 in conference matchups. UCSB is sixth in the Big West with 15.1 assists per game led by Aidan Mahaney<\/a> averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State is shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point lower than the 46.8% UCSB allows to opponents. UCSB has shot at a 48.6% rate from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points above the 47.2% shooting opponents of Long Beach State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Rob Diaz III<\/a> is averaging 7.9 points and 3.2 assists for the Beach. Gavin Sykes<\/a> is averaging 21.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mahaney is shooting 39.6% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Gauchos, while averaging 14.4 points. CJ Shaw<\/a> is shooting 56.5% and averaging 12.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 6-4, averaging 79.2 points, 29.3 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Gauchos: 5-5, averaging 79.9 points, 30.7 rebounds, 16.0 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 51.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.0 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":"UCSB Gauchos (12-7, 5-3 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (8-12, 4-4 Big West) Long Beach, 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-146139","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\/146139","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=146139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146139\/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=146139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}