Long Beach State Beach (2-6) at UCSB Gauchos (6-2)<\/p>\n
Santa Barbara, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits UCSB after Gavin Sykes scored 30 points in Long Beach State\u2019s 76-72 win over the San Diego Toreros.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos have gone 3-1 in home games. UCSB ranks sixth in the Big West in rebounding with 34.3 rebounds. Zion Sensley leads the Gauchos with 7.5 boards.<\/p>\n
The Beach have gone 0-4 away from home. Long Beach State has a 0-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
UCSB scores 80.4 points per game, 4.5 more points than the 75.9 Long Beach State gives up. Long Beach State averages 6.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 fewer makes per game than UCSB allows.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Miro Little is shooting 49.1% and averaging 13.0 points for the Gauchos. Colin Smith is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Sykes is scoring 14.8 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Beach. Petar Majstorovic is averaging 12.6 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Beach (2-6) at UCSB Gauchos (6-2) Santa Barbara, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40117,7,45864,4213,1327,29643,131,133,132,24795,24460,127,29836],"class_list":["post-80049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-bullfighting","tag-california","tag-colin-smith","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-gavin-sykes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-san-diego-toreros","tag-sports","tag-uc-san-diego-tritons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049","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=80049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}