Long Beach State Beach (1-5) at Portland Pilots (4-3)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State takes on Portland after Gavin Sykes scored 24 points in Long Beach State’s 78-72 loss to the Montana State Bobcats.<\/p>\n
The Pilots have gone 4-2 at home. Portland ranks third in the WCC with 27.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Joel Foxwell averaging 4.6.<\/p>\n
The Beach are 0-3 on the road. Long Beach State ranks seventh in the Big West allowing 73.7 points while holding opponents to 44.9% shooting.<\/p>\n
Portland’s average of 6.1 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.2 fewer made shots on average than the 6.3 per game Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State has shot at a 41.8% clip from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points above the 41.5% shooting opponents of Portland have averaged.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Foxwell is scoring 15.1 points per game and averaging 5.4 rebounds for the Pilots. Mikah Ballew is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Sykes is scoring 12.8 points per game and averaging 4.3 rebounds for the Beach. Shaquil Bender is averaging 11.3 points.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (1-5) at Portland Pilots (4-3) Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,41027,895,127],"class_list":["post-69281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-portland-preview","tag-men","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281","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=69281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}