{"id":79570,"date":"2025-12-03T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:04:07","slug":"csu-bakersfield-faces-csu-northridge-following-smiths-30-point-outing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79570\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield faces CSU Northridge following Smith&#8217;s 30-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colorado-state-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSU<\/a> Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-4) at CSU Northridge Matadors (3-4)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Northridge, California; Thursday, 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=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield faces CSU Northridge after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/dailin-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dailin Smith<\/a> scored 30 points in CSU Bakersfield&#8217;s 76-71 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/fresno-state-bulldogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Matadors are 2-0 in home games. CSU Northridge is 1-0 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 15.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Roadrunners are 1-4 on the road. CSU Bakersfield is ninth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a> with 23.1 defensive rebounds per game led by Pierre Geneste Jr. averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">CSU Northridge&#8217;s average of 6.7 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.1 more made shots on average than the 6.6 per game CSU Bakersfield allows. CSU Bakersfield averages 72.3 points per game, 8.3 fewer points than the 80.6 CSU Northridge allows to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Matadors and Roadrunners meet Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Larry Hughes Jr. averages 3.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Matadors, scoring 16.3 points while shooting 46.0% from beyond the arc. Josh O&#8217;Garro is shooting 46.1% and averaging 12.9 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Smith is averaging 17.4 points for the Roadrunners. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/cj-hardy-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Hardy<\/a> is averaging 14.4 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<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-4) at CSU Northridge Matadors (3-4) Northridge, California; Thursday, 10 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":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-79570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570","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=79570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570\/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=79570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}