{"id":87476,"date":"2025-12-09T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:25:08","slug":"fresno-state-faces-saint-marys-ca-after-longs-23-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87476\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State faces Saint Mary&#8217;s (CA) after Long&#8217;s 23-point performance"},"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\/womens-college-basketball\/fresno-state-bulldogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno State Bulldogs<\/a> (5-4) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/saint-marys-gaels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Mary&#8217;s Gaels<\/a> (7-4)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Moraga, California; Wednesday, 9:30 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: Fresno State visits Saint Mary&#8217;s (CA) after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/emilia-long-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emilia Long<\/a> scored 23 points in Fresno State&#8217;s 65-45 loss to the Pepperdine Waves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Gaels have gone 3-0 in home games. Saint Mary&#8217;s (CA) is 3-2 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Bulldogs are 1-3 on the road. Fresno State ranks ninth in the MWC with 20.6 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/ashlyn-rean-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashlyn Rean<\/a> averaging 5.3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Saint Mary&#8217;s (CA) makes 42.6% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than Fresno State has allowed to its opponents (39.3%). Fresno State scores 5.7 more points per game (62.0) than Saint Mary&#8217;s (CA) gives up to opponents (56.3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/edie-clarke-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edie Clarke<\/a> is averaging 8.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.7 steals for the Gaels. Addison Wedin is averaging 1.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/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\/womens-college-basketball\/ava-marr-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Marr<\/a> averages 1.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Bulldogs, scoring 4.9 points while shooting 33.3% from beyond the arc. Long is averaging 12.7 points, 3.4 assists and 3.2 steals.<\/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 (5-4) at Saint Mary&#8217;s Gaels (7-4) Moraga, California; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Fresno&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-87476","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\/87476","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=87476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87476\/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=87476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}