{"id":201292,"date":"2026-03-03T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:03:13","slug":"gavin-sykes-named-big-west-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201292\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Sykes Named Big West Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/gavin-sykes\/9440\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9440\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> earned Big West Player of the Week honors for the second time this season after two high-scoring performances to help the freshman reach the highest scoring mark for that class in school history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOver two games, Sykes averaged 33.5 points per game including a career-high on Saturday, scoring 39 points at Cal State Bakersfield which included the game-winner in the closing seconds. That came after a 28 point game at Cal Poly for the freshman.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn doing so, Sykes moved past Beach legend Lucious Harris for the most points scored at Long Beach State as a freshman, and also became just the 32nd player in program history to score 500 points in one season at Long Beach State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSykes is now a two-time winner this season, having previously won following his previous season and career-high at CSUN with 34 points for the week of January 19.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State will play their final home game of the season on Thursday, hosting UC Davis at 7 p.m. in the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Gavin Sykes earned Big West Player of the Week honors for the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-201292","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\/201292","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=201292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}