{"id":196636,"date":"2026-02-27T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196636\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:12:10","slug":"san-jose-state-plays-grand-canyon-on-16-game-road-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196636\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State plays Grand Canyon on 16-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose State Spartans (4-25, 2-16 MWC) at Grand Canyon Antelopes (11-17, 10-8 MWC)<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: San Jose State will look to break its 16-game road slide when the Spartans face Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>The Antelopes have gone 6-7 in home games. Grand Canyon is 0-5 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans are 2-16 in conference play. San Jose State ranks ninth in the MWC with 7.2 offensive rebounds per game led by Amira Brown averaging 1.7.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Canyon is shooting 40.2% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point higher than the 39.2% San Jose State allows to opponents. San Jose State\u2019s 34.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is 7.8 percentage points lower than Grand Canyon has allowed to its opponents (41.8%).<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. Grand Canyon won 79-59 in the last matchup on Dec. 28. Julianna LaMendola led Grand Canyon with 25 points, and Maya Anderson led San Jose State with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: LaMendola is averaging 11.5 points and 6.3 rebounds for the Antelopes. Casey Valenti-Paea is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is averaging 13.8 points and 6.4 rebounds for the Spartans. Allie Cummins is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Antelopes: 5-5, averaging 63.2 points, 34.6 rebounds, 13.3 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 39.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 59.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Spartans: 2-8, averaging 55.9 points, 29.4 rebounds, 11.4 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 35.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.6 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose State Spartans (4-25, 2-16 MWC) at Grand Canyon Antelopes (11-17, 10-8 MWC) Phoenix; Saturday, 3 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[60873,62375,1956,4161,2454,7,89700,4213,1327,9222,59433,59509,59508,88,90,89,997,127,26102,8859],"class_list":{"0":"post-196636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-allie-cummins","9":"tag-amira-brown","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az-state-wire","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-casey-valenti-paea","15":"tag-college-basketball","16":"tag-college-sports","17":"tag-data-skrive","18":"tag-grand-canyon-antelopes","19":"tag-julianna-lamendola","20":"tag-maya-anderson","21":"tag-san-jose","22":"tag-san-jose-headlines","23":"tag-san-jose-news","24":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-womens-college-basketball","27":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196636","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=196636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196636\/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=196636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}