Long Beach State Beach (2-6) at UCSB Gauchos (6-2)<\/p>\n
Santa Barbara, California; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Gauchos -12.5; over\/under is 144.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State visits UCSB after Gavin Sykes scored 30 points in Long Beach State’s 76-72 win against the San Diego Toreros.<\/p>\n The Gauchos are 3-1 on their home court. UCSB is eighth in the Big West with 23.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Zion Sensley averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n 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 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’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 The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Miro Little is scoring 13.0 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Gauchos. Aidan Mahaney is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n Sykes is shooting 48.3% and averaging 14.8 points for the Beach. Petar Majstorovic is averaging 12.6 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n 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 BETMGM SPORTSBOOK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[46447,847,40117,4213,1327,131,133,132,24795,127],"class_list":["post-81298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-46447","tag-article","tag-bullfighting","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81298","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=81298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}