CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-23, 2-17 Big West) at Cal Poly Mustangs (13-18, 9-10 Big West)<\/p>\n
San Luis Obispo, California; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield visits Cal Poly after Ron Jessamy scored 23 points in CSU Bakersfield\u2019s 86-84 loss to the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs are 7-6 on their home court. Cal Poly ranks fifth in the Big West with 24.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Hamad Mousa averaging 5.2.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners have gone 2-17 against Big West opponents. CSU Bakersfield allows 81.3 points to opponents while being outscored by 8.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly averages 10.9 made 3-pointers per game, 2.9 more made shots than the 8.0 per game CSU Bakersfield gives up. CSU Bakersfield averages 4.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.6 fewer made shots on average than the 9.5 per game Cal Poly gives up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. Cal Poly won 104-79 in the last matchup on Jan. 30. Troy Plumtree led Cal Poly with 31 points, and Dailin Smith led CSU Bakersfield with 25 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mousa is scoring 20.3 points per game with 6.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists for the Mustangs. Cayden Ward is averaging 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds while shooting 47.6% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Smith is averaging 16.3 points for the Roadrunners. Jessamy is averaging 17.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mustangs: 6-4, averaging 85.7 points, 33.4 rebounds, 15.2 assists, 6.9 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Roadrunners: 0-10, averaging 74.1 points, 29.7 rebounds, 12.2 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.2 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":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (8-23, 2-17 Big West) at Cal Poly Mustangs (13-18, 9-10 Big West) San Luis Obispo,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,55582,4213,1327,9222,24795,31916,127,76463],"class_list":["post-207286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-cayden-ward","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-ron-jessamy","tag-sports","tag-troy-plumtree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207286","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=207286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207286\/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=207286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}