The University of Portland men\u2019s basketball team couldn\u2019t miss Wednesday night on its way to a lopsided 93-73 home win over Long Beach State.<\/p>\n
The Pilots hit three out of every four shots they tried in the second half on their way to a 51-point finish that quickly buried Long Beach on the scoreboard. Jamie O\u2019Donnell, Tim George and Jermaine Ballisager-Webb combined to go a perfect 12-for-12 from the field after the break.<\/p>\n
Portland was up by a bucket early in the second half before going on an 8-0 run to take a double-digit lead. Ballisager-Webb converted a three-point play on a fastbreak dunk to put the game out of reach 84-62 with 5:22 to play.<\/p>\n
The Pilots shot a blistering 35-for-50 (70%) for the game and went 17-for-19 (89.5%) from the free-throw line. Joel Foxwell and Timo shared the team lead with 19 points apiece, while Matus Hronsky added 16 points.<\/p>\n
Portland (5-3) is back in action Monday at Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Portland men\u2019s basketball team couldn\u2019t miss Wednesday night on its way to a lopsided 93-73…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-71814","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\/71814","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=71814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}