{"id":89004,"date":"2025-12-10T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:52:20","slug":"long-beach-state-takes-on-portland-aims-to-stop-8-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89004\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State takes on Portland, aims to stop 8-game slide"},"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\/portland-pilots-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Pilots<\/a> (4-5) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/long-beach-state-beach-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State Beach<\/a> (0-8, 0-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/big-west\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big West<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Long Beach, California; Thursday, 9 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: Long Beach State aims to stop its eight-game skid when the Beach play Portland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Beach have gone 0-4 in home games. Long Beach State is seventh in the Big West with 8.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Khylee-Jade Pepe averaging 2.0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Pilots are 0-2 on the road. Portland scores 70.4 points while outscoring opponents by 8.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Long Beach State scores 49.3 points per game, 12.3 fewer points than the 61.6 Portland allows. Portland averages 70.4 points per game, 0.4 fewer than the 70.8 Long Beach State allows.<\/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\/jaquoia-jones-brown-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a> is shooting 42.3% and averaging 16.3 points for the Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/brynna-pukis-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brynna Pukis<\/a> is averaging 5.3 points.<\/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\/dyani-ananiev-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dyani Ananiev<\/a> is shooting 34.2% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Pilots, while averaging 10.8 points and 3.3 steals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/florence-dallow-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Dallow<\/a> is averaging 10.1 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":"Portland Pilots (4-5) at Long Beach State Beach (0-8, 0-2 Big West) Long Beach, California; Thursday, 9 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-89004","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\/89004","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=89004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89004\/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=89004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}