{"id":201628,"date":"2026-03-03T03:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:56:08","slug":"long-beach-states-gavin-sykes-earns-player-of-the-week-honor-after-setting-school-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201628\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State’s Gavin Sykes Earns Player of the Week Honor After Setting School Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tGavin Sykes, Long Beach State | Freshman \u2022 Guard \u2022 Sacramento, Calif.
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\n\tLong Beach State guard Gavin Sykes averaged 33.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game and set the program’s freshman scoring record to earn The Big West Men’s Basketball Player of the Week award. It is the second career weekly honor for Sykes, having won it once earlier this season. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe freshman scored 28 points, including going 5-for-11 from behind the arc, with three rebounds and two assists at Cal Poly, Thursday night. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Sacramento, Calif. product went off for 39 points, including the game-winning shot, in an 88-87 road win at Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday. <\/p>\n


\n\tSykes is averaging a conferece second-best 18.8 points per game. <\/p>\n

Also Nominated: Dre Bullock (Hawai’i), Jurian Dixon (UC Irvine), Ronald Jessamy (Cal State Bakersfield), Hamad Mousa (Cal Poly), Hudson Mayes (UC San Diego), Zion Sensley (UC Santa Barbara), Josh Ward (Cal State Fullerton), Marcus Wilson (UC Davis), Marqui Worthy Jr. (UC Riverside).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links All-Time Big West Men’s Basketball Weekly Winners >>> Player of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-201628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628","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=201628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}