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…]

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…]

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…]

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