{"id":45345,"date":"2025-11-09T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45345\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:51:12","slug":"mens-basketball-struggles-against-fresno-state-loses-82-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45345\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Struggles Against Fresno State, Loses 82-62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> faced a setback against <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/fresno-state-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State<\/a>, losing 82-62 despite a promising defensive start. The Beach held an early lead but succumbed to a strong performance from the Bulldogs in the second half, who capitalized on their shooting streak. Jake Heidbreder led Fresno State with 24 points, while Gavin Sykes shone for Long Beach State, scoring a career-high 11 points.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersFresno State shot 50% in the second half, compared to Long Beach State&#8217;s 50% overall.The Bulldogs out-rebounded Long Beach State 38-26. State of PlayLong Beach State remains winless at 0-2 for the season.Fresno State improved to 2-1 with this decisive victory. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State will aim for their first win of the season during their next game at Pacific on Wednesday, November 16, which is set to start at 7 p.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>The Beach need to strengthen their defensive consistency and rebounding efforts to convert early leads into wins moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State faced a setback against Fresno State, losing 82-62 despite a promising defensive start. The Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-45345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345","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=45345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}