{"id":163408,"date":"2026-02-04T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:23:08","slug":"long-beach-state-visits-ucsd-following-benders-22-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163408\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State visits UCSD following Bender’s 22-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (8-15, 4-7 Big West<\/a>) at UCSD<\/a> Tritons (15-8, 5-6 Big West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State plays UCSD after Shaquil Bender<\/a> scored 22 points in Long Beach State’s 89-82 loss to the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.<\/p>\n

The Tritons have gone 5-5 at home. UCSD is fourth in the Big West with 25.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Tom Beattie<\/a> averaging 4.4.<\/p>\n

The Beach are 4-7 in conference matchups. Long Beach State has a 1-3 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

UCSD scores 77.3 points per game, 0.4 more points than the 76.9 Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State has shot at a 45.7% clip from the field this season, 4.1 percentage points greater than the 41.6% shooting opponents of UCSD have averaged.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Leo Beath<\/a> is scoring 14.5 points per game and averaging 5.1 rebounds for the Tritons. Alex Chaikin<\/a> is averaging 13.3 points and 1.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Gavin Sykes<\/a> is shooting 47.6% and averaging 18.2 points for the Beach. Bender is averaging 1.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tritons: 4-6, averaging 70.1 points, 34.5 rebounds, 13.2 assists, 6.9 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 41.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Beach: 5-5, averaging 78.2 points, 30.7 rebounds, 15.6 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.9 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 (8-15, 4-7 Big West) at UCSD Tritons (15-8, 5-6 Big West) San Diego; Thursday,…\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":["post-163408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408","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=163408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163408\/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=163408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}