Long Beach State finally has an opponent for its semifinal game in the Big West Conference Tournament at the Anaheim Convention Center. With a 67-60 win over UC Davis, the third-seeded Pacific Tigers earned a date with the No. 2 ‘Niners Friday night. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU[Read More…]
Men’s Basketball
Two wins away from the Big Dance
Click here for the Big West Tournament schedule They have battled all season for this. Now they are just two wins away from the NCAA Tournament. The Long Beach State men’s hoops teams will open Big West Conference Tournament play in the semifinals at the Anaheim Convention Center Friday night.[Read More…]
Big West shows men’s hoops ‘TLC’
Click here for a complete list of honorees The youth movement that has taken place at The Beach was recognized by the Big West Conference on Monday morning. After winning just six games a year ago, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team has already won 15 and a trio[Read More…]
Oh so close to No. 1
With Cal State Northridge’s loss at Pacific, Long Beach State was 6.8 seconds from a share of the Big West Conference title and the No. 1 seed in the Big West Tournament on Saturday. But UC Santa Barbara’s James Nunnally hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Gauchos[Read More…]
Beach heads North to finish Big West schedule
Long Beach State’s men’s basketball team started Big West Conference play the same way it will finish — by taking on Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara. When LBSU (14-13, 9-5 Big West) last took on Cal Poly (7-19, 3-11 Big West), it was its most lopsided conference win. The[Read More…]
Latest ruling deems 7th-graders hoops prospects
Dan Monson is a never-say-never kind of guy when it comes to the NCAA’s latest change to the recruiting rules. The Long Beach State head coach cited competitiveness as one of the reasons he thought the NCAA decided to classify seventh-graders as men’s basketball prospects in mid-January. “The problem is[Read More…]
The ‘magic number’ is 1 for men’s basketball
Big West standings In sports, the “magic number” refers to either how many wins one team needs or losses it needs by the teams behind them in the standings in order to clinch. While the Long Beach State men’s basketball team’s loss to Cal State Northridge on Saturday makes winning[Read More…]
49ers lose battle of 1st-place Big West powers
Box score NORTHRIDGE — A team now sits alone atop the Big West Conference men’s basketball rankings, but it is not the Long Beach State 49ers. LBSU didn’t have an answer for the Cal State Northridge offensive attack and fell at the hands of the Matadors, 95-74, on Saturday. CSUN[Read More…]
Tiebreakers may determine regular-season conference champion
Click here for the Big West Conference standings When deadlocked atop the standings heading toward the end of the regular season, the next thing to look at is possible tiebreaker situations. Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge started Wednesday tied for first place in the Big West Conference men’s[Read More…]
Gilling lights up the Pyramid on Senior Night
Box score Stephan Gilling was amazed at how well Green Bay shot the 3-pointer at the Pyramid last Saturday. Thursday night it was his turn. Gilling, who has struggled with his shot of late and didn’t start, knocked down a career-high seven 3-pointers — including five in the second half[Read More…]