CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-15, 2-9 Big West) at UC Irvine Anteaters (15-7, 8-2 Big West)<\/p>\n
Irvine, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield plays UC Irvine after Mike Price scored 24 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 80-72 loss to the UC Davis Aggies.<\/p>\n
The Anteaters have gone 7-3 at home. UC Irvine leads the Big West in rebounding, averaging 38.0 boards. Kyle Evans leads the Anteaters with 8.5 rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners have gone 2-9 against Big West opponents. CSU Bakersfield gives up 79.7 points to opponents while being outscored by 7.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
UC Irvine is shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 45.9% CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents. CSU Bakersfield averages 5.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.5 fewer made shots on average than the 7.7 per game UC Irvine gives up.<\/p>\n
The Anteaters and Roadrunners meet Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jurian Dixon is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Anteaters. Jovan Jester Jr. is averaging 0.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pierre Geneste Jr. is averaging 3.1 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Roadrunners. Dailin Smith is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Anteaters: 8-2, averaging 77.0 points, 35.9 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Roadrunners: 3-7, averaging 71.7 points, 30.5 rebounds, 11.0 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.0 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-15, 2-9 Big West) at UC Irvine Anteaters (15-7, 8-2 Big West) Irvine, California; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[79118,847,151,153,152,2454,4213,1327,24795,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-163417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-79118","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-bakersfield","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-college-basketball","15":"tag-college-sports","16":"tag-mens-college-basketball","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163417","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=163417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163417\/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=163417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}