{"id":205106,"date":"2026-03-05T05:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:28:27","slug":"csu-northridge-faces-csu-bakersfield-after-davis-38-point-outing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205106\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Northridge faces CSU Bakersfield after Davis&#8217; 38-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colorado-state-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSU<\/a> Northridge Matadors (18-12, 11-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a>) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-22, 2-16 Big West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: CSU Northridge visits CSU Bakersfield after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/josiah-davis-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Davis<\/a> scored 38 points in CSU Northridge&#8217;s 95-84 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/uc-riverside-highlanders-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Riverside Highlanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Roadrunners have gone 6-10 at home. CSU Bakersfield is 7-8 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 13.1 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Matadors are 11-7 in conference games. CSU Northridge averages 17.0 assists per game to lead the Big West, paced by Davis with 7.2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">CSU Bakersfield scores 72.6 points per game, 6.6 fewer points than the 79.2 CSU Northridge gives up. CSU Northridge averages 81.5 points per game, 0.3 more than the 81.2 CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. CSU Northridge won 87-66 in the last matchup on Dec. 5. Larry Hughes Jr. led CSU Northridge with 27 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/dailin-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dailin Smith<\/a> led CSU Bakersfield with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Smith is scoring 16.0 points per game and averaging 2.4 rebounds for the Roadrunners. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/mike-price-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Price<\/a> is averaging 1.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Hughes is scoring 17.7 points per game with 2.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists for the Matadors. Davis is averaging 17.6 points and 5.4 rebounds while shooting 50.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Roadrunners: 0-10, averaging 72.8 points, 28.9 rebounds, 11.2 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 88.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Matadors: 7-3, averaging 82.6 points, 36.1 rebounds, 17.8 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSU Northridge Matadors (18-12, 11-7 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-22, 2-16 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,4365,82890,82891,65084,4213,1323,31913,80631,69219,64735],"class_list":{"0":"post-205106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-big-west","12":"tag-charleston-southern-buccaneers","13":"tag-chicago-state-cougars","14":"tag-cleveland-state-vikings","15":"tag-college-basketball","16":"tag-colorado-state-rams","17":"tag-dailin-smith","18":"tag-event_preview","19":"tag-mike-price","20":"tag-uc-riverside-highlanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205106","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=205106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205106\/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=205106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}