{"id":192655,"date":"2026-02-25T06:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192655\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:29:31","slug":"cal-state-northridge-78-76-long-beach-state-22-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192655\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State Northridge 78-76 Long Beach State (22 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106291\/josiah-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Davis<\/a> had 21 points in Cal State Northridge&#8217;s 78-76 win against Long Beach State on Saturday night to extend the Matadors&#8217; win streak to seven games. <\/p>\n<p>              Davis also contributed nine assists for the Matadors (18-10, 11-5 Big West Conference). Josh O&#8217;Garro scored 13 points while shooting 6 of 14 from the field and 1 for 4 from the free-throw line, and added seven rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5117707\/grady-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grady Lewis<\/a> shot 5 of 6 from the field and 2 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 12 points. <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5177115\/shaquil-bender\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquil Bender<\/a> finished with 27 points for the Beach (8-20, 4-12). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5196921\/gavin-sykes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> added 13 points for Long Beach State. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5312976\/rob-diaz-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Diaz III<\/a> finished with 11 points. The Beach extended their losing streak to nine in a row.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Josiah Davis had 21 points in Cal State Northridge&#8217;s 78-76 win against Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-192655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192655","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=192655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}