Long Beach State Beach (8-15, 4-7 Big West) at UCSD 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 scored 22 points in Long Beach State’s 89-82 loss to the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.<\/p>\n
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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 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 is scoring 14.5 points per game and averaging 5.1 rebounds for the Tritons. Alex Chaikin is averaging 13.3 points and 1.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Gavin Sykes 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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13623,131,133,132,1817,21125,32007],"class_list":["post-163624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-points-per-game","tag-ucsd-tritons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163624","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=163624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}