{"id":207179,"date":"2026-03-06T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:23:13","slug":"cal-state-northridge-86-84-cal-state-bakersfield-mar-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207179\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State Northridge 86-84 Cal State Bakersfield (Mar 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Josh O&#8217;Garro scored 25 points and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CSUNMBB\/status\/2029776651278856683?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106291\/josiah-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Davis<\/a> scored a game-winning layup with five seconds remaining as CSU Northridge beat CSU Bakersfield 86-84 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              O&#8217;Garro added 11 rebounds for the Matadors (19-12, 12-7 Big West Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5175787\/mahmoud-fofana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahmoud Fofana<\/a> scored 15 points and added eight rebounds. Davis finished 6 of 11 from the field to finish with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>              Ron Jessamy led the Roadrunners (8-23, 2-17) in scoring, finishing with 23 points, nine rebounds, three steals and four blocks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4703106\/dailin-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dailin Smith<\/a> also had 23 points and two steals for CSU Bakersfield. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241842\/mike-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Price<\/a> finished with 12 points and four assists. The Roadrunners extended their losing streak to 14 straight.<\/p>\n<p>              The Matadors never trailed from the 16:02 mark of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Josh O&#8217;Garro scored 25 points and Josiah Davis scored a game-winning layup with five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-207179","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\/207179","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=207179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}