UCSB Gauchos (7-1, 1-0 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (2-6, 0-1 Big West)<\/p>\n
Bakersfield, California; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield faces UCSB after Chrishawn Coleman scored 21 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 59-57 loss to the CSU Northridge Matadors.<\/p>\n
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The Roadrunners have gone 0-4 in home games. CSU Bakersfield is ninth in the Big West scoring 58.5 points while shooting 36.2% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos are 1-0 against Big West opponents. UCSB is 2-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
CSU Bakersfield’s average of 4.8 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 5.1 per game UCSB gives up. UCSB averages 10.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 5.1 more made shots on average than the 5.8 per game CSU Bakersfield allows.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners and Gauchos face off Saturday for the first time in Big West play this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Coleman is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Roadrunners. Morgan Hawkins is averaging 9.4 points and 2.9 rebounds while shooting 46.0%.<\/p>\n
Zoe Borter is shooting 46.0% and averaging 14.0 points for the Gauchos. Olivia Bradley is averaging 13.5 points.<\/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":"UCSB Gauchos (7-1, 1-0 Big West) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (2-6, 0-1 Big West) Bakersfield, California; Saturday, 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,4365,7,23314,25303,45674,30052],"class_list":{"0":"post-84053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-big-west","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-csu-bakersfield","14":"tag-csu-bakersfield-roadrunners","15":"tag-csu-northridge","16":"tag-ucsb-gauchos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84053","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=84053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84053\/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=84053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}