{"id":204486,"date":"2026-03-04T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204486\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:40:18","slug":"csun-closes-regular-season-at-home-against-bakersfield-on-road-against-fullerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204486\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUN Closes Regular Season at Home Against Bakersfield on Road Against Fullerton"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAME NOTES<\/a>

\nNORTHRIDGE, Calif. — The CSUN women’s basketball team (9-18, 5-13 Big West) will wrap up its regular season with a Senior Night matchup against Cal State Bakersfield on Thursday at 6:00 P.M. at Premier America Credit Union Arena and a road contest against Cal State Fullerton, Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Both games will be streamed live on ESPN+.
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\nABOUT LAST WEEK
\nvs UC Irvine 2\/26
\nCSUN nearly stunned the\u00a0first-place\u00a0UC Irvine Anteaters, but would come up short, 60-57, on Thursday night at Bren Events Center. Summah Hanson of UCI hit a game winning three-point basket with six seconds left to take the win. Saray White<\/a> led all scorers with 23 points. Jite Gbemuotor<\/a> snatched her eighth career double-double, with 12 points and 15 rebounds.
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\nvs UC Riverside 2\/28
\nCSUN was defeated by the UC Riverside Highlanders, 70-61 at Premier America Credit Union Arena Saturday afternoon. Gbemuotor led the Matadors with 19 points and eight rebounds. Erika Aspajo<\/a> was the second leading scorer with 11 points. Saray White<\/a>, Morgan Edwards<\/a>, and Rita Nazario all scored eight points.\u00a0CSUN split\u00a0the season series with UCR after previously winning in Riverside earlier this year.
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\nFIGHTING FOR THE EIGHTH SEED
\nCSUN is currently one game ahead for the eighth and final seed in the 2026 Credit Union 1 Big West Women’s Basketball Championship, set for March 11-14\u00a0in Henderson, Nev.\u00a0The Matadors have the fate of their tournament lives in their hands. If they win one of the final two games, and Long Beach State loses one of its final two games, the Matadors are in the tournament.
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\nOVER 200 REBOUNDS FOR JITE
\nJite Gbemuotor<\/a> has had a stellar season on the boards for the Matadors. She enters Thursday’s game at 221 rebounds on the season. The last Matador to bring down at least 200 rebounds on the season was Kayanna Spriggs in 2023-24 who finished the year at 232. Gbemuotor’s season high in rebounds is 16, which she has reached in games against Cal Poly on Feb. 5 and Bethesda on Nov. 4. She has also reached 15 twice\u00a0in games versus UC Irvine (Feb. 26) and Cal Poly (Jan. 8).\u00a0
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\nCRACKING THE TOP 10 IN THREES MADE\u00a0
\nRita Nazario has been impressive from long range for the Matadors this season. Nazario currently leads CSUN with 61 made three-pointers this season, which ranks fifth in the Big West. That total places her eighth\u00a0all-time\u00a0in school history for the\u00a0most threes made in a single season. Nazario is currently chasing Cinnamon Lister, who has the school record with 89 made in 2013-14.
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\nNO ONE DISHES THE BALL BETTER THAN ASPAJO
\nErika Aspajo<\/a> has been running the offense all season long. She averages 4.1 assists on the year which leads the team, while totaling 87 assists so far this season. That 87 mark also leads the team. Aspajo has 181 total assists in her Matador career since joining the team in 2024-25. She is also looking to beat her total of 94 that she set back in her first year with CSUN.
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\nABOUT CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD
\nCSUB enters Thursday’s match currently 7-21 overall and 2-16 in Big West play. They are currently eliminated from playoff contention but are looking to play spoiler. The Roadrunners average 62.3 points per game while giving up 69.3 on the defensive end.\u00a0
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\nThey are led in scoring by Chrishan Coleman\u00a0who\u00a0averages 16.3 PPG and has a total of 455 points on the season. The Roadrunners get a lot of their offense from behind the arc, with four of their players having more than 20 three-pointers on the season.
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\nThey are,\u00a0however, in the bottom half of the Big West in three-point percentage (29.1), which ranks eighth place in the conference.\u00a0
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\nEarlier this season, both these teams matched up in Bakersfield on December 4th. CSUN was victorious, 59-57, after a late stage layup from Saray White<\/a> with five seconds left lifted the Matadors past the Roadrunners at the Icardo Center.
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\nSeries History: CSUN’s win from earlier this season means that the Roadrunners have an 11-7 advantage all-time against the Matadors. CSUN is currently riding a two game winning streak dating back to last season.
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\nABOUT CAL STATE FULLERTON
\nFullerton is 16-12 on the season and 12-6 in Big West play. The\u00a0Titans\u00a0are firmly locked into the playoffs with a chance to play for a top four seed entering this week’s contests.\u00a0
\nThe Titans currently have the best offense in the Big West. They average 71.1 points per game while giving up 65.4 points. They have two top 20 scorers in the conference in Cristina Jones (16.1) and Nicole Steiner (11.0).
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\nA big strength of this Fullerton team is its rebounds. The Titans average 39.2 rebounds per game, good for second best in the Big West. They create multiple possessions, as they grab 18.2 offensive boards per game, that’s easily first in the Big West. The next closest team is CSUN at 12.6 offensive rebounds per game.
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\nEarlier this season on January 10, Fullerton beat CSUN 73-58 at Premier America Credit Union Arena. Saray White<\/a> scored her career high that day, scoring\u00a026\u00a0points.
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\nSeries History: The series is 31-35 all-time in favor of the Titans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAME NOTES NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — The CSUN women’s basketball team (9-18, 5-13 Big West) will wrap up its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-204486","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\/204486","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=204486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}