{"id":205461,"date":"2026-03-05T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:06:19","slug":"long-beach-state-takes-on-uc-davis-after-sykes-39-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205461\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State takes on UC Davis after Sykes’ 39-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

UC Davis Aggies (17-12, 10-8 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (9-21, 5-13 Big West)<\/p>\n

Long Beach, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State takes on UC Davis after Gavin Sykes scored 39 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 88-87 win against the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners.<\/p>\n

The Beach have gone 7-8 in home games. Long Beach State allows 77.9 points and has been outscored by 3.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are 10-8 in Big West play. UC Davis has a 1-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

Long Beach State scores 74.7 points per game, 0.3 fewer points than the 75.0 UC Davis gives up. UC Davis\u2019 45.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.2 percentage points lower than Long Beach State has given up to its opponents (47.5%).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the second time in conference play this season. UC Davis won the last meeting 71-54 on Feb. 14. Marcus Wilson scored 18 points to help lead the Aggies to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sykes is averaging 18.8 points for the Beach. Shaquil Bender is averaging 14.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Connor Sevilla is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 1.7 rebounds for the Aggies. Wilson is averaging 13.3 points and 2.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 1-9, averaging 73.8 points, 29.1 rebounds, 12.8 assists, 6.8 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Aggies: 6-4, averaging 74.9 points, 28.0 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 7.8 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.0 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Davis Aggies (17-12, 10-8 Big West) at Long Beach State Beach (9-21, 5-13 Big West) Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,4213,1327,63058,9222,29643,131,133,132,76565,24795,127],"class_list":["post-205461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-connor-sevilla","tag-data-skrive","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-marcus-wilson","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205461","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=205461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205461\/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=205461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}