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SAN DIEGO (AP) Bol Dengdit’s 18 points helped UC San Diego<\/a> defeat Long Beach State<\/a> 77-74 on Thursday.<\/p>\n Dengdit added 12 rebounds for the Tritons (16-8, 6-6 Big West Conference). Jaden Vance scored 17 points, shooting 6 for 10 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line. Alex Chaikin had 16 points and shot 4 of 9 from the field, including 3 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 5 for 7 from the line.<\/p>\n The Beach (8-16, 4-8) were led in scoring by Shaquil Bender, who finished with 22 points and two steals. Petar Majstorovic added 19 points, eight rebounds and two steals for Long Beach State. Rob Diaz III finished with 18 points, five assists and two steals.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) Bol Dengdit’s 18 points helped UC San Diego defeat Long Beach State 77-74 on Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4213,131,133,132,26043,29836],"class_list":["post-166315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-college-basketball","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-beach","tag-uc-san-diego-tritons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166315","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=166315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}