{"id":84207,"date":"2025-12-06T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:44:12","slug":"csu-bakersfield-visits-mahaney-and-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84207\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield visits Mahaney and UCSB"},"content":{"rendered":"

CSU<\/a> Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-5, 0-1 Big West<\/a>) at UCSB<\/a> Gauchos (7-2, 1-0 Big West)<\/p>\n

Santa Barbara, California; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Gauchos -11.5; over\/under is 146.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UCSB hosts CSU Bakersfield after Aidan Mahaney<\/a> scored 26 points in UCSB’s 84-77 overtime victory over the Long Beach State Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Gauchos are 4-1 on their home court. UCSB is sixth in the Big West with 14.0 assists per game led by Miro Little<\/a> averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n

The Roadrunners are 0-1 against conference opponents. CSU Bakersfield has a 2-3 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

UCSB is shooting 46.0% from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points higher than the 44.9% CSU Bakersfield allows to opponents. 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 allows.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Colin Smith<\/a> averages 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Gauchos, scoring 13.5 points while shooting 46.2% from beyond the arc. Mahaney is shooting 42.3% and averaging 14.0 points.<\/p>\n

Dailin Smith<\/a> is averaging 17.4 points for the Roadrunners. CJ Hardy<\/a> is averaging 13.7 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-84207","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84207","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=84207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84207\/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=84207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}