Long Beach State Beach (8-13, 4-5 Big West) at UC Riverside Highlanders (7-14, 2-7 Big West)<\/p>\n
Riverside, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State faces UC Riverside after Petar Majstorovic scored 21 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 74-71 loss to the UCSB Gauchos.<\/p>\n
The Highlanders have gone 4-4 at home. UC Riverside is 5-10 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n
The Beach are 4-5 against Big West opponents. Long Beach State gives up 76.6 points to opponents and has been outscored by 1.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
UC Riverside scores 71.5 points per game, 5.1 fewer points than the 76.6 Long Beach State allows. Long Beach State averages 6.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 more makes per game than UC Riverside allows.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Andrew Henderson is shooting 40.6% and averaging 16.2 points for the Highlanders. Marqui Worthy is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Majstorovic is averaging 15.2 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals for the Beach. Gavin Sykes is averaging 19.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Highlanders: 2-8, averaging 70.1 points, 29.3 rebounds, 12.7 assists, 4.8 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Beach: 6-4, averaging 78.0 points, 28.4 rebounds, 15.6 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.8 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 (8-13, 4-5 Big West) at UC Riverside Highlanders (7-14, 2-7 Big West) Riverside, California;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-153970","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\/153970","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=153970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}