Pepperdine Waves (4-7) at Long Beach State Beach (2-9, 0-2 Big West)<\/p>\n
Long Beach, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Beach -3.5; over\/under is 140.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Pepperdine takes on Long Beach State after Aaron Clark scored 25 points in Pepperdine’s 70-62 win against the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Beach are 2-3 on their home court. Long Beach State averages 12.0 turnovers per game and is 2-4 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.<\/p>\n The Waves are 1-2 in road games. Pepperdine ranks fourth in the WCC with 10.2 offensive rebounds per game led by Styles Phipps averaging 2.1.<\/p>\n Long Beach State is shooting 43.2% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 43.6% Pepperdine allows to opponents. Pepperdine averages 6.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 fewer makes per game than Long Beach State gives up.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Gavin Sykes is shooting 36.8% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Beach, while averaging 17.1 points. Petar Majstorovic is shooting 49.5% and averaging 13.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Javon Cooley is shooting 34.0% from beyond the arc with 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Waves, while averaging 13.5 points and 5.4 rebounds. Clark is shooting 40.3% and averaging 14.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Beach: 2-8, averaging 75.0 points, 29.0 rebounds, 12.6 assists, 6.7 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Waves: 3-7, averaging 71.8 points, 31.5 rebounds, 14.1 assists, 5.5 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 41.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.7 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pepperdine Waves (4-7) at Long Beach State Beach (2-9, 0-2 Big West) Long Beach, California; Thursday, 10 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[51817,174,7,131,133,132,1817,41509],"class_list":["post-99817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aaron-clark","tag-beach","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-pepperdine-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99817","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=99817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}