{"id":194565,"date":"2026-02-26T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:49:25","slug":"long-beach-state-faces-cal-poly-following-pepes-24-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194565\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State faces Cal Poly following Pepe’s 24-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cal Poly Mustangs<\/a> (3-23, 1-15 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (3-23, 2-14 Big West)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State hosts Cal Poly after Khylee-Jade Pepe scored 24 points in Long Beach State’s 85-75 loss to the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 3-10 at home. Long Beach State gives up 73.6 points to opponents and has been outscored by 18.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Mustangs are 1-15 in conference games. Cal Poly has a 0-1 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State is shooting 35.8% from the field this season, 6.5 percentage points lower than the 42.3% Cal Poly allows to opponents. Cal Poly averages 4.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.6 fewer made shots on average than the 7.6 per game Long Beach State allows.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season in Big West play. Cal Poly won the last matchup 63-49 on Jan. 3. Charish Thompson<\/a> scored 20 points to help lead the Mustangs to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brynna Pukis<\/a> is shooting 33.3% from beyond the arc with 1.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, while averaging 5.5 points. JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> is shooting 42.6% and averaging 17.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Alana Goosby<\/a> is averaging 4.4 points for the Mustangs. Thompson is averaging 13.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 2-8, averaging 62.1 points, 29.1 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 41.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mustangs: 0-10, averaging 51.4 points, 31.5 rebounds, 9.0 assists, 6.0 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 35.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.4 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":"Cal Poly Mustangs (3-23, 1-15 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (3-23, 2-14 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":[90897,90896,62253,85343,80631,56594,131,133,132,26043,26102],"class_list":{"0":"post-194565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-alana-goosby","9":"tag-brynna-pukis","10":"tag-cal-poly-mustangs","11":"tag-charish-thompson","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-jaquoia-jones-brown","14":"tag-long-beach","15":"tag-long-beach-headlines","16":"tag-long-beach-news","17":"tag-long-beach-state-beach","18":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565","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=194565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194565\/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=194565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}