{"id":156398,"date":"2026-01-30T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:18:08","slug":"smith-and-csu-bakersfield-host-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156398\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith and CSU Bakersfield host UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Davis Aggies<\/a> (12-9, 5-5 Big West<\/a>) at CSU<\/a> Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-14, 2-8 Big West)<\/p>\n

Bakersfield, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield hosts UC Davis after Dailin Smith<\/a> scored 25 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 104-79 loss to the Cal Poly Mustangs.<\/p>\n

The Roadrunners are 6-6 on their home court. CSU Bakersfield is eighth in the Big West in rebounding with 31.5 rebounds. Pierre Geneste Jr. paces the Roadrunners with 6.8 boards.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are 5-5 against Big West opponents. UC Davis is fifth in the Big West scoring 79.6 points per game and is shooting 45.9%.<\/p>\n

CSU Bakersfield is shooting 41.8% from the field this season, 3.1 percentage points lower than the 44.9% UC Davis allows to opponents. UC Davis has shot at a 45.9% rate from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points fewer than the 46.0% shooting opponents of CSU Bakersfield have averaged.<\/p>\n

The Roadrunners and Aggies face off Saturday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Smith is averaging 16.1 points for the Roadrunners. Jaden Alexander<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nils Cooper<\/a> is scoring 14.3 points per game with 5.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists for the Aggies. Marcus Wilson<\/a> is averaging 12.1 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 43.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Roadrunners: 4-6, averaging 74.2 points, 30.4 rebounds, 11.3 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Aggies: 6-4, averaging 82.2 points, 33.0 rebounds, 18.3 assists, 8.1 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.4 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":"UC Davis Aggies (12-9, 5-5 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-14, 2-8 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-156398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156398","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=156398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156398\/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=156398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}