{"id":182765,"date":"2026-02-18T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:02:10","slug":"long-beach-state-visits-uc-irvine-following-hernandezs-30-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182765\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State visits UC Irvine following Hernandez’s 30-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach State Beach (3-21, 2-12 Big West) at UC Irvine Anteaters (21-4, 12-2 Big West)<\/p>\n

Irvine, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UC Irvine hosts Long Beach State after Hunter Hernandez scored 30 points in UC Irvine\u2019s 77-71 win against the CSU Fullerton Titans.<\/p>\n

The Anteaters are 12-1 in home games. UC Irvine is 1-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 2-12 against Big West opponents. Long Beach State is 0-4 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 17.5 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

UC Irvine scores 71.9 points per game, 1.1 fewer points than the 73.0 Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State has shot at a 35.4% rate from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points higher than the 34.3% shooting opponents of UC Irvine have averaged.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Hernandez is averaging 18.3 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Anteaters. Jada Wynn is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

JaQuoia Jones-Brown is averaging 16.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Beach. Khylee-Jade Pepe is averaging 12.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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LAST 10 GAMES: Anteaters: 8-2, averaging 70.0 points, 34.6 rebounds, 13.0 assists, 10.2 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 40.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 54.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Beach: 2-8, averaging 59.1 points, 30.2 rebounds, 13.5 assists, 6.2 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 38.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.9 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 (3-21, 2-12 Big West) at UC Irvine Anteaters (21-4, 12-2 Big West) Irvine, California;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2454,7,4213,1327,9222,63056,64721,131,133,132,71825,127,26102,8859],"class_list":{"0":"post-182765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-data-skrive","13":"tag-irvine-anteaters","14":"tag-jada-wynn","15":"tag-long-beach","16":"tag-long-beach-headlines","17":"tag-long-beach-news","18":"tag-send-to-apple-news","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-womens-college-basketball","21":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765","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=182765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}