{"id":87475,"date":"2025-12-09T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:23:22","slug":"mens-basketball-falls-to-uc-san-diego-80-74-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87475\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball Falls to UC San Diego 80-74 in Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a> suffered an 80-74 defeat against <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/uc-san-diego-tritons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC San Diego<\/a> in their Big West home opener. Despite leading scorers, freshman Gavin Sykes with 20 points and sophomore Petar Majstorovic with 18, the team fell short after a late push. The Beach struggled after UC San Diego established a lead through a strong offensive stretch in the second half. They closed the gap but ultimately ran out of time, finishing the game with another league loss. This match marked a rocky start in conference play for Long Beach State, now at 2-8 overall.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersLong Beach State led at half-time, 30-34.UC San Diego scored 11 points in a key stretch, maintaining their lead. State of PlayLong Beach State now holds a 0-2 record in the Big West conference.UC San Diego improved to 1-0 in Big West play and 8-1 overall. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State will look to recover as they head on the road to face San Jose State on December 9 for their next game. The team will aim to shift their momentum and secure a victory after two conference losses.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong start, Long Beach State&#8217;s inability to maintain momentum in the second half cost them the game, underlining the need for consistent performance as they navigate through a challenging conference season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State suffered an 80-74 defeat against UC San Diego in their Big West home opener. Despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-87475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475","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=87475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}