UCSD Tritons (7-1) at Long Beach State Beach (2-7, 0-1 Big West)<\/p>\n
Long Beach, California; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Long Beach State faces UCSD after Gavin Sykes scored 24 points in Long Beach State’s 84-77 overtime loss to the UCSB Gauchos.<\/p>\n
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The Beach are 2-2 on their home court. Long Beach State ranks ninth in the Big West with 12.9 assists per game led by Isaiah Lewis averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n
The Tritons have gone 1-1 away from home. UCSD is 7-1 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
Long Beach State’s average of 7.0 made 3-pointers per game is 2.0 fewer made shots on average than the 9.0 per game UCSD gives up. UCSD averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.0 more made shots on average than the 6.4 per game Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n
The Beach and Tritons meet Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sykes is shooting 46.4% and averaging 15.8 points for the Beach. Shaquil Bender is averaging 10.9 points.<\/p>\n
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Leo Beath is scoring 19.5 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Tritons. Tom Beattie is averaging 13.0 points and 5.4 rebounds.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCSD Tritons (7-1) at Long Beach State Beach (2-7, 0-1 Big West) Long Beach, California; Saturday, 9 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,29643,131,133,132,1817,32007],"class_list":{"0":"post-83357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-gavin-sykes","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-long-beach-state","14":"tag-ucsd-tritons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83357","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=83357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}