CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-5, 0-1 Big West) at UCSB Gauchos (7-2, 1-0 Big West)<\/p>\n
Santa Barbara, California; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: UCSB plays CSU Bakersfield after Aidan Mahaney scored 26 points in UCSB\u2019s 84-77 overtime win against the Long Beach State Beach.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos have gone 4-1 in home games. UCSB is fifth in the Big West scoring 80.8 points while shooting 46.0% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Roadrunners are 0-1 in conference matchups. CSU Bakersfield ranks ninth in the Big West with 22.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Ron Jessamy averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n
UCSB averages 7.9 made 3-pointers per game, 1.3 more made shots than the 6.6 per game CSU Bakersfield allows. CSU Bakersfield averages 4.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.0 fewer made shots on average than the 7.1 per game UCSB gives up.<\/p>\n
The Gauchos and Roadrunners meet Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mahaney is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 1.6 rebounds for the Gauchos. Colin Smith is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Dailin Smith averages 1.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Roadrunners, scoring 17.4 points while shooting 18.8% from beyond the arc. CJ Hardy is averaging 13.7 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":"CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-5, 0-1 Big West) at UCSB Gauchos (7-2, 1-0 Big West) Santa Barbara, California; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[47541,151,153,152,2454,7,45864,4213,1327,24795,31916,127],"class_list":["post-84107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-aidan-mahaney","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-basketball","tag-california","tag-colin-smith","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-ron-jessamy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84107","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=84107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}