{"id":81177,"date":"2025-12-04T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81177\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:12:08","slug":"csu-northridge-hosts-csu-bakersfield-following-smiths-30-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81177\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Northridge hosts CSU Bakersfield following Smith&#8217;s 30-point game"},"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=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Matadors -3.5; over\/under is 156.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield visits 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 Fresno State Bulldogs.<\/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 eighth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a> scoring 75.0 points while shooting 40.4% 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 Roadrunners are 1-4 in road games. CSU Bakersfield is ninth in the Big West 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 is shooting 40.4% from the field this season, 3.4 percentage points lower than the 43.8% CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents. CSU Bakersfield has shot at a 42.1% clip from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points less than the 42.8% shooting opponents of CSU Northridge have averaged.<\/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 square off 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. is shooting 43.5% and averaging 16.3 points for the Matadors. Josh O&#8217;Garro is averaging 0.9 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=\"\">Smith averages 1.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Roadrunners, scoring 17.4 points while shooting 21.4% from beyond the arc. <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 BETMGM&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-81177","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\/81177","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=81177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81177\/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=81177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}