CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-4) at CSU Northridge Matadors (3-4)<\/p>\n
Northridge, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Matadors -3.5; over\/under is 156.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield visits CSU Northridge after Dailin Smith scored 30 points in CSU Bakersfield\u2019s 76-71 victory over the Fresno State Bulldogs.<\/p>\n The Matadors are 2-0 in home games. CSU Northridge is eighth in the Big West scoring 75.0 points while shooting 40.4% from the field.<\/p>\n 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 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 The Matadors and Roadrunners square off Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Larry Hughes Jr. is shooting 43.5% and averaging 16.3 points for the Matadors. Josh O\u2019Garro is averaging 0.9 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n Smith averages 1.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Roadrunners, scoring 17.4 points while shooting 21.4% from beyond the arc. CJ Hardy is averaging 14.4 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":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-4) at CSU Northridge Matadors (3-4) Northridge, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,40117,7,4213,1327,3257,46482,46481,24795,46483,127],"class_list":["post-81367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bullfighting","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","tag-josh-ogarro","tag-larry-hughes","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-pierre-geneste-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81367","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=81367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81367\/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=81367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}