{"id":154145,"date":"2026-01-29T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154145\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:51:13","slug":"long-beach-state-hosts-wickstrom-and-uc-riverside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154145\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State hosts Wickstrom and UC Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/uc-riverside-highlanders-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Riverside Highlanders<\/a> (6-13, 4-5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a>) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/long-beach-state-beach-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (2-17, 1-8 Big West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Long Beach, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside faces Long Beach State after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/hannah-wickstrom-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Wickstrom<\/a> scored 26 points in UC Riverside&#8217;s 81-68 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/uc-davis-aggies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Davis Aggies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Beach are 2-8 in home games. Long Beach State is seventh in the Big West in rebounding with 32.3 rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/jaquoia-jones-brown-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> leads the Beach with 7.8 boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Highlanders are 4-5 in conference games. UC Riverside is eighth in the Big West scoring 62.2 points per game and is shooting 38.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Long Beach State is shooting 34.0% from the field this season, 6.0 percentage points lower than the 40.0% UC Riverside allows to opponents. UC Riverside averages 7.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 8.1 per game Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Jones-Brown is averaging 16.4 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/rosie-akot-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosie Akot<\/a> is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Wickstrom is averaging 22.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.6 steals for the Highlanders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/seneca-hackley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seneca Hackley<\/a> is averaging 11.9 points and 2.3 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 2-8, averaging 55.4 points, 31.2 rebounds, 12.9 assists, 6.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 34.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Highlanders: 4-6, averaging 67.4 points, 30.7 rebounds, 15.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 41.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.8 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Riverside Highlanders (6-13, 4-5 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (2-17, 1-8 Big West) Long Beach,&hellip;\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-154145","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\/154145","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=154145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154145\/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=154145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}