{"id":82418,"date":"2025-12-05T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:09:11","slug":"uc-santa-barbara-wins-84-77-in-ot-against-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82418\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Santa Barbara wins 84-77 in OT against Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/UCSB\/santa-barbara-gauchos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SANTA BARBARA<\/a>, Calif. (AP)  Aidan Mahaney scored 26 points as UC Santa Barbara beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/LNGBCH\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> 84-77 in overtime on Thursday in a Big West Conference opener.<\/p>\n<p>Mahaney added six rebounds for the Gauchos (7-2, 1-0). Colin Smith added 18 points while going 3 of 8 from the floor, including 2 for 6 from 3-point range, and 10 for 11 from the line while he also had three steals. Zion Sensley went 5 of 11 from the field (4 for 7 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Sykes finished with 24 points for the Beach (2-7, 0-1). Shaquil Bender added 19 points. Petar Majstorovic finished with 12 points and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes&#8217; 3-pointer with eight seconds left tied the game at 67-all and sent it into overtime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) Aidan Mahaney scored 26 points as UC Santa Barbara beat Long Beach State 84-77&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4213,131,133,132,26043,26800],"class_list":["post-82418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-college-basketball","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-beach","tag-santa-barbara-gauchos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82418","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=82418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}