CSU Bakersfield hosts the North Dakota State Bison after CJ Hardy scored 23 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 109-84 loss to the UCSB Gauchos. Thursday’s matchup is the…<\/p>\n
North Dakota State Bison (7-3) at CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (4-6, 0-2 Big West)<\/p>\n
Bakersfield, California; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Bison -6.5; over\/under is 149.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: CSU Bakersfield hosts North Dakota State after CJ Hardy scored 23 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 109-84 loss to the UCSB Gauchos.<\/p>\n The Roadrunners have gone 3-0 at home. CSU Bakersfield gives up 80.7 points to opponents and has been outscored by 7.9 points per game.<\/p>\n The Bison are 1-3 on the road. North Dakota State scores 79.4 points and has outscored opponents by 12.1 points per game.<\/p>\n CSU Bakersfield averages 72.8 points, 5.5 more per game than the 67.3 North Dakota State allows. North Dakota State has shot at a 44.2% rate from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points fewer than the 46.0% shooting opponents of CSU Bakersfield have averaged.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Dailin Smith is scoring 17.1 points per game and averaging 2.6 rebounds for the Roadrunners. Hardy is averaging 14.6 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 48.9%.<\/p>\n Damari Wheeler-Thomas averages 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Bison, scoring 14.5 points while shooting 41.5% from beyond the arc. Markhi Strickland is averaging 14.6 points.<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSU Bakersfield hosts the North Dakota State Bison after CJ Hardy scored 23 points in CSU Bakersfield’s 109-84…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-90411","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\/90411","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=90411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}