{"id":173422,"date":"2026-02-11T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173422\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:07:13","slug":"csu-fullerton-visits-bender-and-long-beach-state-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173422\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Fullerton visits Bender and Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"

CSU<\/a> Fullerton Titans (12-13, 7-6 Big West<\/a>) at Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (8-16, 4-8 Big West)<\/p>\n

Long Beach, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State hosts CSU Fullerton after Shaquil Bender<\/a> scored 22 points in Long Beach State’s 77-74 loss to the UCSD Tritons.<\/p>\n

The Beach are 7-5 on their home court. Long Beach State is ninth in the Big West scoring 74.7 points while shooting 45.7% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Titans are 7-6 against Big West opponents. CSU Fullerton leads the Big West scoring 18.5 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State’s average of 6.7 made 3-pointers per game is 3.2 fewer made shots on average than the 9.9 per game CSU Fullerton gives up. CSU Fullerton has shot at a 45.3% rate from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points less than the 47.2% shooting opponents of Long Beach State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The Beach and Titans face off Thursday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sykes<\/a> is averaging 18.2 points for the Beach. Bender is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Christian WIlliams averages 1.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Titans, scoring 9.2 points while shooting 37.5% from beyond the arc. Joshua Ward is shooting 43.1% and averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 4-6, averaging 74.3 points, 29.4 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Titans: 6-4, averaging 77.2 points, 30.1 rebounds, 15.3 assists, 8.7 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.1 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":"CSU Fullerton Titans (12-13, 7-6 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (8-16, 4-8 Big West) Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4365,82890,82891,65084,4213,1323,80631,29643,131,133,132,26043,69616],"class_list":{"0":"post-173422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-big-west","9":"tag-charleston-southern-buccaneers","10":"tag-chicago-state-cougars","11":"tag-cleveland-state-vikings","12":"tag-college-basketball","13":"tag-colorado-state-rams","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-gavin-sykes","16":"tag-long-beach","17":"tag-long-beach-headlines","18":"tag-long-beach-news","19":"tag-long-beach-state-beach","20":"tag-shaquil-bender"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173422","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=173422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173422\/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=173422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}