{"id":47507,"date":"2025-11-11T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:35:06","slug":"mens-basketball-season-opener-long-beach-state-faces-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47507\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Season Opener: Long Beach State Faces Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a>&#8216;s men&#8217;s basketball team is wrapping up a three-game season-opening road trip, facing <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/university-of-the-pacific-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific<\/a> as they aim to improve after a tough loss to Fresno State (82-62). The Beach&#8217;s roster has seen significant changes, with only one returning player from last season, Derrick Michael Xzavierro, and a plethora of new transfers and recruits aiming to bolster the team&#8217;s performance. Freshman Gavin Sykes leads the team in scoring, while Syracuse transfer Petar Majstorovic shows promise with impressive averages in points and rebounds.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersLong Beach State scored 62 points against Fresno State, with Gavin Sykes contributing 11 points.Petar Majstorovic averages 11.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. State of PlayTeam has introduced 13 new players to fill the roster, focusing heavily on transfers.Long Beach State aims to break their losing streak after starting the season 0-2. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>As Long Beach State heads into their matchup against Pacific, the team will look to secure their first win of the season, followed by a challenging game against Iowa State. Continued performance improvements, particularly on defense, will be crucial as they gear up for league play.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State&#8217;s revamped roster and coaching staff are under pressure to perform after a slow start, making the upcoming games critical for establishing momentum in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State&#8216;s men&#8217;s basketball team is wrapping up a three-game season-opening road trip, facing Pacific as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-47507","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\/47507","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=47507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}