{"id":82437,"date":"2025-12-05T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82437\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:09","slug":"uc-santa-barbara-wins-84-77-in-ot-against-long-beach-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82437\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Santa Barbara wins 84-77 in OT against Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/aidan-mahaney-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Mahaney<\/a> scored 26 points as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/uc-santa-barbara-gauchos-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Santa Barbara<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/long-beach-state-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> 84-77 in overtime on Thursday in a Big West Conference opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Mahaney added six rebounds for the Gauchos (7-2, 1-0). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colin-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Smith<\/a> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/zion-sensley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Sensley<\/a> went 5 of 11 from the field (4 for 7 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points.<\/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\/gavin-sykes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Sykes<\/a> finished with 24 points for the Beach (2-7, 0-1). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/shaquil-bender-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquil Bender<\/a> added 19 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/petar-majstorovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petar Majstorovic<\/a> finished with 12 points and two steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-160ccf97=\"\">Sykes&#8217; 3-pointer with eight seconds left tied the game at 67-all and sent it into overtime.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Aidan Mahaney scored 26 points as UC Santa Barbara beat Long Beach State&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-82437","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\/82437","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=82437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82437\/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=82437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}