{"id":87468,"date":"2025-12-09T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:13:07","slug":"csu-northridge-puts-home-win-streak-on-the-line-against-fresno-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87468\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU Northridge puts home win streak on the line against Fresno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/fresno-state-bulldogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (6-4) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/colorado-state-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSU<\/a> Northridge Matadors (4-5, 1-1 Big West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Northridge, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: CSU Northridge hosts Fresno State aiming to prolong its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Matadors are 3-0 in home games. CSU Northridge is the Big West leader with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/mahmoud-fofana-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahmoud Fofana<\/a> averaging 3.4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Bulldogs play their first true road game after going 6-4 with a 1-1 record in neutral-site games to start the season. Fresno State ranks fourth in the MWC with 24.2 defensive rebounds per game led by Wilson Jacques averaging 5.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">CSU Northridge averages 75.9 points, 6.2 more per game than the 69.7 Fresno State allows. Fresno State averages 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 9.2 per game CSU Northridge gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Larry Hughes Jr. is scoring 17.7 points per game with 2.2 rebounds and 0.9 assists for the Matadors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/josiah-davis-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Davis<\/a> is averaging 12.9 points and 4.0 rebounds while shooting 40.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jake-heidbreder-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Heidbreder<\/a> is shooting 48.1% and averaging 18.8 points for the Bulldogs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/zaon-collins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zaon Collins<\/a> is averaging 13.8 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State Bulldogs (6-4) at CSU Northridge Matadors (4-5, 1-1 Big West) Northridge, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-87468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87468","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=87468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87468\/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=87468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}