CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-20, 2-14 Big West) at UCSD Tritons (19-9, 9-7 Big West)<\/p>\n
San Diego; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield takes on UCSD after Dailin Smith scored 21 points in CSU Bakersfield\u2019s 88-80 loss to the CSU Fullerton Titans.<\/p>\n
The Tritons have gone 8-5 at home. UCSD has a 3-3 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners are 2-14 in conference games. CSU Bakersfield ranks third in the Big West with 9.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Pierre Geneste Jr. averaging 2.5.<\/p>\n
UCSD is shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points lower than the 45.9% CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents. CSU Bakersfield has shot at a 41.5% clip from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points greater than the 41.4% shooting opponents of UCSD have averaged.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season in Big West play. UCSD won the last meeting 83-62 on Jan. 17. Leo Beath scored 20 points points to help lead the Tritons to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Beath is averaging 12.9 points for the Tritons. Hudson Mayes is averaging 12.9 points and 7.1 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kadar Waller is averaging 3.2 points for the Roadrunners. Smith is averaging 17.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Tritons: 6-4, averaging 68.9 points, 35.0 rebounds, 14.3 assists, 7.9 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Roadrunners: 0-10, averaging 70.0 points, 30.4 rebounds, 10.5 assists, 6.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 40.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.0 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":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-20, 2-14 Big West) at UCSD Tritons (19-9, 9-7 Big West) San Diego; Thursday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,4213,1327,9222,48164,24795,46483,127],"class_list":["post-193711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-leo-beath","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-pierre-geneste-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193711","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=193711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193711\/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=193711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}