{"id":159066,"date":"2026-02-01T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159066\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:49:08","slug":"saine-leads-weber-state-against-sacramento-state-after-28-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159066\/","title":{"rendered":"Saine leads Weber State against Sacramento State after 28-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Weber State Wildcats (11-11, 5-4 Big Sky) at Sacramento State Hornets (8-13, 4-5 Big Sky)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sacramento, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: Weber State faces Sacramento State after Tijan Saine scored 28 points in Weber State&#8217;s 81-79 win against the Idaho State Bengals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Hornets have gone 8-1 at home. Sacramento State ranks sixth in the Big Sky with 13.4 assists per game led by Mikey Williams averaging 4.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Wildcats have gone 5-4 against Big Sky opponents. Weber State leads the Big Sky with 10.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Malek Gomma averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sacramento State&#8217;s average of 7.8 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.8 more made shots on average than the 7.0 per game Weber State allows. Weber State averages 7.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 fewer made shots on average than the 9.0 per game Sacramento State allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Hornets and Wildcats face off Monday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TOP PERFORMERS: Jahni Summers averages 1.9 made 3-pointers per game for the Hornets, scoring 9.2 points while shooting 44.0% from beyond the arc. Prophet Johnson is shooting 46.1% and averaging 19.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Saine is averaging 15.9 points and 4.4 assists for the Wildcats. Viljami Vartiainen is averaging 11.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 4-6, averaging 81.1 points, 30.1 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wildcats: 6-4, averaging 83.4 points, 33.2 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 7.9 steals and 1.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weber State Wildcats (11-11, 5-4 Big Sky) at Sacramento State Hornets (8-13, 4-5 Big Sky) Sacramento, California; Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[77467,847,2454,4213,1327,24795,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-159066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-77467","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-mens-college-basketball","14":"tag-sacramento","15":"tag-sacramento-headlines","16":"tag-sacramento-news","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159066","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=159066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}