{"id":70521,"date":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:07:08","slug":"long-beach-state-visits-portland-after-sykes-24-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70521\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State visits Portland after Sykes&#8217; 24-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Long Beach State Beach (1-5) at Portland Pilots (4-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pilots -5.5; over\/under is 149.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits Portland after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 24 points in Long Beach State&#8217;s 78-72 loss to the Montana State Bobcats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Pilots have gone 4-2 at home. Portland is sixth in the WCC scoring 82.1 points while shooting 48.6% from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Beach have gone 0-3 away from home. Long Beach State has a 0-3 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Portland averages 82.1 points, 8.4 more per game than the 73.7 Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State averages 68.7 points per game, 11.3 fewer points than the 80.0 Portland allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/joel-foxwell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Foxwell<\/a> is shooting 46.8% and averaging 15.1 points for the Pilots. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/mikah-ballew-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikah Ballew<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Sykes averages 1.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, scoring 12.8 points while shooting 37.0% from beyond the arc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/shaquil-bender-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquil Bender<\/a> is averaging 11.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (1-5) at Portland Pilots (4-3) Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:&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-70521","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\/70521","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=70521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70521\/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=70521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}