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LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013\u00a0UC San Diego begins defense of its Big West title as the Tritons continue their month-long road trip with Saturday’s game at Long Beach State (6 p.m.) as part of the conference’s Bold Week initiative. The Tritons (7-1) look to get back on track after Tuesday’s setback at Nevada, a loss that snapped UC San Diego’s 20-game regular season win streak. Long Beach State (2-7) dropped its Big West opener, 84-77, in overtime at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday.
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\nThese teams have split their eight all-time meetings \u2013 all coming since UC San Diego joined The Big West. The Tritons swept last year’s contests. Saturday’s game will air on ESPN+ with a link to live stats on UCSDTritons.com.
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\u00a0 TRITONS, STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
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\n\t\t\tGame 9: UC San Diego (7-1, 0-0) at Long Beach State (2-7, 0-1)
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\n\t\t\tSaturday, Dec. 6
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\n\t\t\tLBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid (4,200) | Long Beach
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\n\t\t\tESPN+<\/a> | Live Stats<\/a>
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\n\t\t\tSeries Record: Tied, 4-4
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\n\t\t\tLast Meeting: at UC San Diego 70, LBSU 63 (March 6)
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\nABOUT THE TRITONS
\nRoster<\/a> | Schedule<\/a> | Stats<\/a>
\nOverall: 7-1
\nBig West: 0-0
\nHome: 3-0
\nAway: 1-1
\nNeutral: 3-0
\nvs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0
\nStreak: L1<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t83.9
\n\t\t\t71.9
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\n\t\t\t.675
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\n\t\t\t35.6
\n\t\t\t35.3
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\n\t\t\t15.8
\n\t\t\t12.0
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\n\t\t\t9.8
\n\t\t\t11.6
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\n\t\t\t7.5
\n\t\t\t5.4
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\nABOUT THE BEACH
\nRoster<\/a> | Schedule<\/a> | Stats<\/a>
\nOverall: 2-7
\nBig West: 0-1
\nHome: 2-2
\nAway: 0-5
\nNeutral: 0-
\nvs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0
\nStreak: L1<\/p>\n
\nUC San Diego is back on the plane to head for Nevada to face Tulane in the Jack Jones Classic on Dec. 13. Game time is scheduled for 9 p.m. from Lee’s Family Forum \u2013 site of The Big West Championship \u2013 with links to a live stream ($) and live stats on UCSDTritons.com.
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\nLAST TIME VS. LONG BEACH STATE: TRITONS 70, BEACH 63 Stats<\/a>
\nUC San Diego captured a share of its first-ever Big West regular season men’s basketball title with a 70-63 victory over visiting Long Beach State in LionTree Arena. Playing in their final regular season home game,\u00a0Tyler McGhie<\/a><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones<\/a><\/a>\u00a0each scored 20 points in lifting UC San Diego (27-4 overall, 17-2 Big West) to the win \u2013 the Tritons’ 12th straight.\u00a0Chris Howell<\/a>\u00a0added six assists and five steals without committing a turnover \u2013 along with\u00a0a huge block in the final minutes as UC San Diego wrapped up its home slate with a 13-2 record in LionTree Arena.
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\nDevin Askew scored a game-high 29 for Long Beach State (7-24, 3-16).
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\nMICKEY’S MOST VALUABLE
\nFirst year Triton Leo Beath<\/a> was named Most Valuable Player at the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational, leading UC San Diego to three wins in three days at Walt Disney World (Nov. 24-26). Beath averaged 23.7 points per game, shooting 61.9% over three games. He drained 9-of-13 three-point attempts (69.2%) and averaged four rebounds and 1.7 steals per game in the victories over Temple, Bradley, and Towson.
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\nRACKING UP THE AWARDS
\nAfter being named tournament MVP at the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational, Leo Beath<\/a> piled up the awards. The following week, he was selected Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week by the USBWA, named the Lou Henson Award-winner as mid-major’s top performer, voted Big West Player of the Week, and garnered UCU Athlete of the Week honors on campus. The Big West honor was Beath’s second of the season (also Nov. 17).
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\nDRAINING ‘EM FROM DISTANCE
\nUC San Diego tied an NCAA Division I single game record when nine Tritons sank three-pointers in a win over Towson at Walt Disney World (Nov. 26). Over the three-day tournament, UC San Diego shot 51.9% from beyond the arc \u2013 hitting 40 of 77 attempts. The Tritons lead The Big West in three-point field goal percentage (40.5%).
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\nCAREER-BEST EFFORTS
\nFirst year Triton Leo Beath<\/a> drained a career high five three-pointers in a win at Fresno State (Nov. 12).
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\nFirst year Triton Tom Beattie<\/a> scored a career high 18 points in a Homecoming win over HCU (Nov. 3). Beattie was 7-for-12 from the floor, knocking down a pair of three-pointers in the win.
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\nA YEAR TO REMEMBER
\nIncluding the postseason, the Tritons are 25-4 in 2025.
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\nTAKING THE LONG ROAD
\nUC San Diego is in the midst of a 34-day stretch between home games \u2013 the longest such stretch for the Tritons in their Division I or II era (2000-present). This year’s squad will travel 6,042 miles between their Nov. 15 home game vs. Idaho and Dec. 19 home game vs. USD. The last time UC San Diego was away from La Jolla for more than 30 days was a 31-day stint in 2007-08.
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\nEAST COAST TRITONS
\nThe Tritons have won their last eight regular season games played in the Eastern Time Zone after winning the Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational in November. Last season in Daytona Beach, UC San Diego beat La Salle, James Madison and Toledo to win the Boardwalk Battle. The Tritons also won at George Washington and Eastern Michigan in 2022.
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\nTRIPLE DIGITS
\nUC San Diego scored 105 points in its season-opening win over La Verne (Nov. 3). The Tritons reached the century mark three times last season.
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\nNO PLACE LIKE HOME
\nUC San Diego has turned LionTree Arena into a true home court advantage, boasting a 30-4 record in La Jolla over the past two-plus seasons.
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\nFIRST OF MANY
\nWhen the Tritons beat La Verne in the season opener (Nov. 3), that marked the first victory in the head coaching career of Clint Allard ’08<\/a>.
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\n2024-25 REWIND
\nUC San Diego is coming off an historic season in which the Tritons won 30 games, a Big West regular season and tournament title, and took 14th-ranked Michigan to the wire in the NCAA Tournament \u2013 all in the program’s first season with Division I postseason eligibility. In fact, UC San Diego became the first program in NCAA history to send its men’s and women’s teams to March Madness in its first season eligible to do so.
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\nNEW-LOOK TRITONS
\nHead coach Clint Allard added ten newcomers to the Tritons’ roster for the 2025-26\u00a0season: eight transfers and two first-year scholar-athletes.\u00a0Leo Beath<\/a><\/a>\u00a0(Lynn),\u00a0Tom Beattie<\/a><\/a>\u00a0(Hawai’i),\u00a0Alex Chaikin<\/a>\u00a0(Lafayette),\u00a0Bol Dengdit<\/a>\u00a0(Portland),\u00a0Tyson Dunn<\/a>\u00a0(Buffalo),\u00a0Trap Johnson<\/a>\u00a0(Montana State),\u00a0Emanuel Prospere II<\/a>\u00a0(Missouri-St. Louis), and\u00a0Dimitrije Vukicevic<\/a>\u00a0(Washington State) transferred to UC San Diego.\u00a0Hudson Mayes<\/a>\u00a0(Redondo Beach, Calif.) and\u00a0Jaden Vance<\/a>\u00a0(Phoenix, Ariz.) joined the roster as freshmen.
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\nTRITONS IN THE PROS
\nThree Tritons from last year’s Big West Championship team are playing professionally this year. Tyler McGhie<\/a> is playing for Gipuzkoa Basket in Spain, Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones<\/a> is competing with Valmiera Glass in Latvia, and Hayden Gray<\/a> is playing in the NBA G League for the Maine Celtics (Boston).
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\nAbout UC San Diego Athletics
\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as\u00a0a\u00a0member\u00a0of The Big West in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in\u00a0Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world’s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II.\u00a0For more information on the Tritons, visit\u00a0UCSDtritons.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media\u00a0@UCSDtritons<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n