DAVIS \u2014 Freshman Gavin Sykes had 18 points, but Long Beach State didn\u2019t have an answer for a superb first half from UC Davis in a 71-54 loss on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Lewis added 10 points and three steals for Long Beach (8-18 overall, 4-10 Big West), which shot just 36% from the field and was outscored 24-9 from 3-point range. Petar Majstorovic added eight points before fouling out for LBSU, which has lost seven games in a row and is in serious danger of being left out of the eight-team conference tournament next month.<\/p>\n
Marcus Wilson had 18 points and six assists to pace the Aggies (16-10, 9-6), who outrebounded Long Beach 34-26 and never trailed on the scoreboard. Connor Sevilla scored 10 points and Niko Rocak added nine points and 10 rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals.<\/p>\n
Long Beach fell behind early but got a pair of 3-pointers from Sykes and eventually tied the score at 16-all with just over 12 minutes to play in the first half. The Aggies responded with an 11-0 run to regain control and opened a 41-27 advantage by halftime.<\/p>\n
UC Davis extended its lead to 20 points in the opening minutes of the second half and held Long Beach to 0-for-7 shooting from 3-point range after the break.<\/p>\n
LBSU held the Aggies to just 42.3% shooting in the second half, including a scoreless stretch of nearly 5 minutes, but the visitors couldn\u2019t make up enough ground to truly threaten.<\/p>\n
Sykes became the second LBSU player after Lucious Harris to score 400 points in his freshman season.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
Long Beach State hosts UC Irvine on Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
BIG WEST STANDINGS<\/p>\n
Through Thursday, Feb. 14<\/p>\n
Team \u2013 Overall, Big West<\/p>\n
Hawaii \u2013 18-6, 10-4<\/p>\n
UC Irvine \u2013 17-9, 10-4<\/p>\n
UC Santa Barbara \u2013 17-9, 10-5<\/p>\n
Cal State Northridge \u2013 16-10, 9-5<\/p>\n
UC Davis \u2013 16-10, 9-6<\/p>\n
UC San Diego \u2013 18-9, 8-7<\/p>\n
Cal State Fullerton \u2013 13-14, 8-7<\/p>\n
Cal Poly (SLO) \u2013 11-16, 7-8<\/p>\n
Long Beach State \u2013 8-18, 4-10<\/p>\n
UC Riverside \u2013 8-19, 3-12<\/p>\n
Cal State Bakersfield \u2013 8-18, 2-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIS \u2014 Freshman Gavin Sykes had 18 points, but Long Beach State didn\u2019t have an answer for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29668,4213,1327,131,133,132,26758,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-178862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-big-west-conference","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-long-beach-state-sports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178862","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=178862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}