{"id":92193,"date":"2025-12-12T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:54:09","slug":"long-beach-state-womens-basketball-skid-continues-with-94-58-loss-to-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92193\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Basketball Skid Continues with 94-58 Loss to Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State women&#8217;s basketball faced another challenging game, losing 94-58 to <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/portland-pilots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a> after a dismal third quarter. The Beach are now 0-9 this season, with four losses by 30 or more points. Head coach Amy Wright emphasized the importance of mindset and consistency as the team struggled to maintain momentum after a strong start. Key performances came from sophomore JaQuoia Jones-Brown, who scored 25 points, and freshman Brynna Pukis with 11 points, but the team was plagued by turnovers and poor rebounding.<\/p>\n<p> By the NumbersLong Beach State allowed 63 points in the second half.They recorded 22 turnovers, allowing Portland 81 field goal attempts. State of PlayThe Beach are currently winless at 0-9 and face a tough schedule.Portland capitalized with a 50-22 advantage in points in the paint. What&#8217;s Next<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State will have an eight-day break before facing No. 4 UCLA, with Coach Wright focusing on shot consistency and overall readiness in practice.<\/p>\n<p> Bottom Line<\/p>\n<p>For Long Beach State to turn their season around, they must enhance offensive collaboration and maintain performance beyond just two competitive quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State women&#8217;s basketball faced another challenging game, losing 94-58 to Portland after a dismal third quarter.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-92193","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\/92193","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=92193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}