{"id":168480,"date":"2026-02-07T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:44:08","slug":"long-beach-bearcats-vs-hancock-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168480\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Bearcats vs. Hancock Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/long-beach\/long-beach-bearcats\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Beach Bearcats<\/a> will head out to  challenge the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ms\/kiln\/hancock-hawks\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hancock Hawks<\/a>  at 5:30  p.m.  on Monday. Long Beach has given up an average of 52.3  points per game this season, but Monday&#8217;s  game will give them a chance to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Long Beach came into their game  on Friday off a hard-fought close win, but unfortunately suffered a serious change of fortune. They had to suffer through  a    74-40 loss at the hands of Biloxi. The Bearcats haven&#8217;t had much luck with the Indians recently, as the team has come up short the last eight times they&#8217;ve met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Meanwhile, Hancock came up short against Biloxi on Thursday and fell  61-52. While losing is never fun, the Hawks can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Mississippi basketball rankings (they are ranked 141st, while the Indians are ranked 19th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Long Beach&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 10-16. As for Hancock, their loss dropped their record down to 9-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Long Beach came up short against Hancock in their previous meeting  last Tuesday, falling  51-46. Can the Bearcats avenge their  defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We&#8217;ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Bearcats will head out to challenge the Hancock Hawks at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-168480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168480","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=168480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}