{"id":81158,"date":"2025-12-04T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81158\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:50:07","slug":"sykes-leads-long-beach-state-against-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81158\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes leads Long Beach State against UCSB"},"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\/long-beach-state-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (2-6) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/uc-santa-barbara-gauchos-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCSB<\/a> Gauchos (6-2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Santa Barbara, California; Thursday, 9 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: Gauchos -12.5; over\/under is 144.5<\/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 UCSB after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> scored 30 points in Long Beach State&#8217;s 76-72 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/san-diego-toreros-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Toreros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Gauchos are 3-1 on their home court. UCSB is eighth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a> with 23.3 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/zion-sensley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Sensley<\/a> averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The Beach are 0-4 in road games. Long Beach State has a 1-3 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">UCSB is shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points lower than the 48.8% Long Beach State allows to opponents. Long Beach State&#8217;s 42.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.0 percentage points lower than UCSB has given up to its opponents (46.9%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/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\/miro-little-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miro Little<\/a> is scoring 13.0 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Gauchos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/aidan-mahaney-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Mahaney<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Sykes is shooting 48.3% and averaging 14.8 points for the Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/petar-majstorovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petar Majstorovic<\/a> is averaging 12.6 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 Long Beach State Beach (2-6) at UCSB Gauchos (6-2) Santa Barbara, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST&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-81158","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\/81158","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=81158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81158\/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=81158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}