{"id":54349,"date":"2025-11-15T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54349\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:18:08","slug":"sykes-leads-long-beach-state-against-illinois-state-after-20-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54349\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes leads Long Beach State against Illinois State after 20-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Illinois State Redbirds (1-2) at Long Beach State Beach (0-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Long Beach, California; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State hosts Illinois State after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 20 points in Long Beach State&#8217;s 69-66 loss to the Pacific Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Long Beach State went 7-25 overall with a 3-11 record at home during the 2024-25 season. The Beach gave up 74.2 points per game while committing 18.6 fouls last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Illinois State went 8-11 in MVC play and 5-7 on the road last season. The Redbirds allowed opponents to score 71.8 points per game and shot 45.3% from the field last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois State Redbirds (1-2) at Long Beach State Beach (0-3) Long Beach, California; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-54349","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\/54349","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=54349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}