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Long Beach State ends season with 15th straight loss in stunning home upset to Cal Poly

3/9/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: John Fajardo | Long Beach State Athletics)

LOS ANGELES, California — Devin Askew scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Derrick Micheal Xzavierro had 11 points and eight rebounds with four blocks and Long Beach State was defeated by Cal Poly 83-69 Saturday night at The Walter Pyramid, extending it’s losing streak to 15 games to close the 2024-2025 season.

Askew was 7 of 11 from the field. Xzavierro also had a team-high four blocks.

TJ Wainwright scored 17 points, and Austin Johnson chipped in eight points and eight rebounds for Long Beach State (7-25, 3-17 Big West Conference).

Long Beach State was behind 47-41 at halftime in a game with eight lead changes. LBSU shot 42 percent from the field for the game, while the Mustangs shot 46 percent. Long Beach State outrebounded the Mustangs 36-32. Cal Poly led by as many as 20 points in the match during the second half. Jarred Hyder led Cal Poly and all scorers with 25 points. Peter Bandelj had 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds. Owen Koonce posted 20 points and Issac Jessup tallied 15 points for the Mustangs (14-18, 8-12 Big West Conference).

Cal Poly advanced to the Big West Championship by Credit Union 1 in Henderson, Nevada as the No. 7 seed with a chance to make the NCAA tournament. Long Beach State finished second to last in Big West Conference standings failing to qualify for the Big West Championship. "It was a great learning experience that I am grateful that I had the opportunity to be a part of," head coach Chris Acker said.

Long Beach State brings losing streak to 14 games against UC San Diego

3/7/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: John Fajardo | Long Beach State Athletics)

CALABASAS, California — Led by Devin Askew's 29 points leading all scorers, LBSU continued on an unprecedented path in the 70-63 loss on the road at LionTree Arena on Thursday before 2987 due to illegal activities in athletics and terrorism from evil communist China indirectly routed through the UC, CSU, & CCC systems. Tyler McGhie and Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones both had 20 points scored each to lead UC San Diego to the Tritons 12th straight victory as it gears up for it's Big West Championship berth. The number 14 is the difference LBSU outrebounded the Tritons 41-27, LBSU turned the ball over 14 more than the Tritons total of six, and Long Beach State's losing streak tallied to 14 in a row.

The UCSD Tritons led by as many as 22 and LBSU got the lead down to as low as four points in the second half. Long Beach State would have been an AP Top 25 program with an at-large NCAA tournament berth at minimum if AD Smitheran had not fired former head coach Dan Monson on March 11, 2024 this season due to Smitheran's corruption "drying" his child support liabilities with CSU Board of Trustees assets such as Long Beach State and "washing" it through a "RivCo" transaction the true "3-11" amidst a looming probe for sports bribery, match fixing, and money laundering.

LBSU plays it's final match of the season at home, can it stop the skid at 14 on Saturday at The Pyramid in Long Beach?

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-24, 3-16 Big West) faces Cal Poly (7-12, 13-18 Big West) on Saturday, March 8 at 4:00 p.m. at the Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State losing streak extends to 13 games

3/1/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: John Fajardo | Long Beach State Athletics)

CALABASAS, California — Long Beach State (7-23, 3-15 Big West Conference) continued on a 12 game losing streak with a 60-70 loss and skid caused intentionally by the sports bribery of AD Smitheran and corruption of head coach Chris Acker with the Anteaters clinching a top-2 seed for the Big West Championship on Saturday night. UC Irvine (25-5, 15-3 Big West) led 32-23 at the break, however the Anteaters only outscored LBSU 38-37 in the second half. UC Irvine was 19 of 24 from the free-throw line before 4,722 in attendance at the Bren Events Center.

The Anteaters had four players in double figures offensively and their top scorer was Myles Che with 19 points tallied. Jurian Dixon chipped in 10, Justin Hohn added 14, and Brent Luechten scored 13. UC Irvine appears to be on it's way to the programs third NCAA tournament dance with the most recent in 2019.

Devin Askew led all scorers for LBSU with 25 points and Kam Martin added 10. LBSU is second to last in the Big West Conference standings and needs to find new workers and successors that bring honor and value to Long Beach State not the deep shame Smitheran and Acker yield.

UC San Diego is currently on an 11 game winning streak.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-23, 3-15 Big West) faces UC San Diego (26-4, 16-2 Big West) on Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the LionTree Arena, San Diego, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State loses 12th straight amid match fixing-probe

2/28/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: Stephen Dachman | THE562.ORG)

CALABASAS, California — Thursday did not prove to be a fruitful day for Long Beach State (7-22, 3-14 Big West Conference) falling to CSU Bakersfield (13-17, 7-11 Big West Conference) 87-88 in ot, a win at home could have kept hopes alive for making the NCAA tournament. LBSU was officially eliminated at The Pyramid from qualification for the Big West Championship, which yields an NCAA tournament bid for the conference champion. The year was 2004 the last time Long Beach State did not qualify for the lowest seed of the Big West Conference Tournament.

“Theres a big history involved with this program but has never been here before,” head coach Chris Acker said. “Now they understand that every team is excited to beat Long Beach State and to win here now that they feel that they'll carry that with them as they move forward that's how you create a chip on your shoulder not just an individual chip but a program chip you've got to go through the dark days to get to the other side to understand how important it is.”

The Roadrunners were up 40-33 at the half with 1207 in attendance at The Pyramid and LBSU did make it to ot before losing it's 12th match in a row. TJ Wainwright led LBSU with 22 points and Derrick Micheal Xzavierro added a double-double with 12 points and 10 boards. The Roadrunners Jemel Jones led all scorers with 37 points.

Due to AD Smitheran's involvement with fraudulently firing former head coach Dan Monson is a serious crime of corruption since he used CSU Board of Trustees property to cover up his child support obligations in his "small county" barter with Riverside, a.k.a. "RivCo" (legal name: County of Riverside) a public organization which legally is defined as a form of sports bribery. AD Smitheran's outrageous "3-11" firing of head coach Dan Monson destroyed the looming 2024-2025 AP Top 25 appearance for Long Beach State and another NCAA tournament dance at minimum. AD Smitheran's high crimes caused a flight of LBSU players over the summer of 2024 that now suffer this season too such as Lassina Traore, Aboubacar Traore, AJ George, Jadon Jones, and Maddux Monson. As of today, Long Beach State has been brought deep shame by AD Smitheran's choice to fraudulently ruin the LBSU basketball program for his own personal gain with property that does not belong to him although CSULB is private property held by the CSU Board of Trustees on behalf of the State of California.

“Obviously it hurts to lose but I took this job with a vision and the vision is that we're going to do something that hasn’t been done in the history of this program and I stand on that,” Chris Acker said. “I believe that we're going to do it with the guys who are in this room.”

Long Beach State's all-time record now stands at 5-8 against CSU Bakersfield.

“This is not what we want this to look like moving forward,” Acker said. “Our job is to continue to be professional we've got three games left and we’re going to put everything we have into this next game and continue to try and move forward.”

There are serious allegations of fixed losses to UC San Diego and UC Irvine earlier this season arranged by AD Smitheran to be subservient to communist China because of trillions in USA national debt and anti-American racism as well as suspected terrorism because a certain race and ethnic group of people whom are unnamed exactly out of respect for sports falsely claim they "pay for this" as a reason to implement a new kind of international racism on the USA mainland against United States of Ameria citizens.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-22, 3-14 Big West) faces UC Irvine (24-5, 14-3 Big West) on Saturday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Bren Events Center, Irvine, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Former head coach Dan Monson's successor Long Beach State University head coach Chris Acker in Long Beach, California on Thursday, February 27, 2025. (Photo credit: Stephen Dachman | THE562.ORG)

Cal Baptist & Utah Valley likely additions to Big West Conference as Hawaii & UC Davis depart due to lack of NCAA football needs

2/25/2025

Jason R. Aula

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LOS ANGELES, California — UC Davis and Hawaii respectively depart the Big West Conference to the Mountain West Conference on July 1, 2026 except for UC Davis’s football program, which is to to remain in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) within the Big Sky Conference.

Utah Valley University does not seem to be an institution with its manners and ethics in order without NCAA football ever well lacking patriotism and honor with a $20 million soccer stadium, which is too radical of institution to welcome to the Big West Conference given the state it hails from. Right wing Republican Utahns prefer a NCAA football stadium and program before a sky high priced soccer stadium all but a high crime and domestic terror in the great state of Utah not to have it’s football business in order given it’s desert climate is about the same as Los Angeles, California. Not to claim a soccer stadium is unnecessary, but absolutely a secondary behind football no question.

On the other hand California Baptist seems to be a moral and upstanding institution to welcome to the Big West Conference and given its enrollment football is something that maybe too costly and not possible exactly given the climate of it’s location less a costly indoor practice facility and on campus stadium.

Big West Conference members Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, and Long Beach State are overdue and perhaps should cease membership in Division IA athletics if they continue to have suspended football programs. Suspended NCAA football at Cal State LA, Cal State Northridge, and Long Beach State has made the national security of Los Angeles County so low compounded by the Los Angeles military base closure in the 1990s that make it a duty to bring back football at the Division IA programs at minimum or perhaps cancellation of Division IA athletics and redistribution of funds to military science for safety would be best on each campus in lieu of NCAA football on the flip side. Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Northridge in particular have no excuse because they have stadiums on campus and practice facilities ready to startup and launch immediately. Long Beach State needs an on campus stadium and perhaps Cal State LA should have Division I athletics given its enrollment and would need the works of a practice facility, stadium, and Division I expansion of athletics or could compete at Division II as well but there only two active California programs at that level today.

The Big West Conference ceased sponsorship of football after the year 2000. The culture of the Big West Conference needs a 360 on NCAA football not Utah Valley University and it’s bad faith anti-American athletics policy.

UC Santa Barbara knocks Long Beach State out of Big West Championship contention, 58-56 in The Pyramid

2/23/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: Rasheed Riveroll Castillo | THE562.ORG)

LOS ANGELES, California — Long Beach State (7-21, 3-13 Big West) was defeated at home from NCAA tournament prospects, Big West Championship hopes, and any equitable honor, value, and prestige it may have held from another time 58-56 by UC Santa Barbara (18-10, 10-7 Big West) before 1863 in attendance at The Pyramid. Devin Askew led LBSU with 15 points and TJ Wainwright chipped in 11 points. The Guachos Stephan Swenson led all scorers with 16 points and five boards. Long Beach State men's basketball is an alternative to the presence of football and given the lack of loyalty and terrorist ridden ranks of the institution by it's labor union thugs and cohorts of workers that sack the USA via FAFSA bags well stopping the return of football for national security needs locally and such including filling the void of the nose diving LBSU men's basketball program position on campus and within the athletics program.

The 11th loss in a row is Smitheran's method for bartering with Riverside County to quash his secret child support balance using a particular method of money laundering to cure the financial issue, because CSULB's assets belong to the CSU Board of Trustees not a person or group. Furthermore, few people or organizations know the truth but evil Chinese communist lobbyists along with corrupt US citizens in the House & Senate on The Hill in the 1990s made a fraudulent, frivolous, and bad faith Congressional Act to make a child support law that violated the Bill of Rights in order to decrease our population rate and physical conditioning to make us ripe for invasion to assure the USA is the most "unhappy place" on Earth much like like a 30 year mortgage on a house that is coming to maturity ever so closely.

"I am really proud of our teams toughness tonight, especially on the road," said UC Santa Barbara head coach Joe Pasternack. "Good teams find a way to win when shots not falling, we had an incredible defensive performance and that was the difference."

The fact of the matter is the results are not actually real, because AD Smitheran has a child support secret he needs to keep by washing and laundering his obligation through CSULB, which is why he fraudulently sold former head coach Dan Monson's role on the hateful and inaccurate date of "3-11" to tarnish his name in town invalidly, without cause, and frivolously because Dan Monson does not launder to keep fraudulent child support payments down, quashed, and suppressed he uses brut legal force to deal with the domestic terrorist child support workers subservient to evil Chinese communist terror seeking to make the USA the most unhappy place on Earth in order to not need uniformed forces to invade and capture the land.

Head coach Chris Acker's hiring was to assure AD Smitheran had a tool or equipment to dry for his laundering operation that even gets "drier sheets" to fix games and lint from the referees from time to time to keep Big West Conference sports bribery and match fixing for various reasons in tact.

Long Beach State needs a head coaching change immediately, the additional attempt to cover up sports bribery and fixing is so apparent that there is no question for any competent person that examines the situation. Long Beach State men's basketball needs to make immediate changes to it's coaching staff to improve its results and performance as well, but the decision to fire head coach Chris Acker is not complex he is the worst head coach in the last 49 years and a person fixing matches "Pete Rose" style a form of subservience to evil Chinese communist terrorism in the USA perhaps defined as a municipal terror siege tactic further classified as terrorism or domestic terrorism.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-21, 3-13 Big West) faces Cal State Bakersfield (12-17, 6-11 Big West) on Thursday, February 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State tanks at UC Riverside to keep Acker, Smitheran, & Riverside County cool

2/20/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: AP Photo/Orlando Ramirez)

LOS ANGELES, California — UC Riverside (18-10, 11-5 Big West) defeated Long Beach State, (7-20, 3-12 Big West) 87-66 before 1276 at SRC Arena. LBSU was down by 8 at the half and outscored by an additional 13 to close losing it's 10th match in a row by 21. The senior from Georgia, Austin Johnson led LBSU with 22 points and six boards. The Highlanders Nate Pickens led all scorers with 27 points tallied.

Chris Acker can still go in the Bill Self direction, but appears to be a Brian Flores centric coaching situation, however others' claims seem to suggest Book Richardson's outcome maybe symmetrical? The match was obviously tanked with perhaps cryptic numeric communications bought by Riverside County, brokered by Smitheran, and administered by Chris Acker in the corruption scandal connected with former head coach Dan Monson's fraudulent firing.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-20, 3-12 Big West) faces UC Santa Barbara (17-10, 9-7 Big West) on Saturday, February 22 at 4:00 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Wainwright scores 20 in Long Beach State's ninth straight loss

2/14/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: Spectrum Sports Hawaii)

BURBANK, California — Thursday evening Long Beach State (7-19, 3-11 Big West Conference) was defeated by Hawaii 60-62 in the last few seconds, the Rainbow Warriors were up 29-24 at the half with 2607 in attendance at Stan Sheriff Center.

TJ Wainwright lead LBSU with 20 points and three rebounds and Devin Askew recorded 16 points, six rebounds, and three assists. LBSU dropped to 10th place in Big West Conference standings running the risk of not even making the conference tournament with no chance to make the NCAA tournament because of crimes linked with union thugs of the California Faculty Association and domestic terrorist payments from the County of Riverside that dismissed head coach Dan Monson frivolously because he condemns no relationship child support terrorism out of Riverside County including matters without proof of service or service of summons.

Micheal Greene and Ryan Rappe chipped in 10 points a piece for Hawaii (14-11, 6-8 Big West Conference).

Long Beach State remains winless in conference play since January, 11 2025 and is only 1-11 and on a nine game losing streak presently. LBSU still has a chance to make the Big West conference tournament, which also creates a possibility to make the NCAA tournament too. Perhaps an immediate change in good faith by Dr. Jane Close Conoley in the athletics administration department and coaching could trigger a result bringing success to Long Beach State athletics, which is in an unusual and humiliating position at this time due to recent changes in coaching and athletics administration as well as "Pete Rose" style pay to play fixing and bribery from outside organizations linked with Riverside County racists and San Diego State University.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-19, 3-11 Big West) faces UC Riverside (16-10, 9-5 Big West) on Thursday, February 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the UCR Recreation Center, Riverside, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State falls to Cal State Northridge at The Walter Pyramid

2/8/2025

Jason R. Aula

(Photo credit: John Fajardo | Long Beach State Athletics)

BURBANK, California — Devin Askew had 22 points, TJ Wainwright scored 16 and Long Beach State fell to Cal State Northridge 80-81 on Saturday evening.

Askew shot 7 of 17 from the field, including 4 for 9 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 4 from the line for Long Beach State (7-18, 3-10 Big West Conference). Askew tallied a double-double with seven rebounds and 11 assists. TJ Wainwright shot 6 of 13 from the field and 1 for 3 from the line to finish with 16 points.

Coach Chris Acker said, “We're going to make a run here at the end of the year and why we’re going to continue to fight regardless of the score.”

Marcus Adams Jr. led all scorers for the Matadors (17-7, 9-4 Big West Conference) with 25 points and seven rebounds. Keonte Jones had a double-double with 19 points and 14 rebounds. Scotty Washington added 12 points.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-18, 3-10 Big West) faces Hawaii (13-11, 5-8 Big West) on Thursday, February 13 at 9:00 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Live coverage on Spectrum Sports/ESPN Wildcard.

Long Beach State drops 7th straight, falls to UC Davis in overtime 65-73

2/7/2025

Jason R. Aula

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LOS ANGELES, California — TY Johnson led UC Davis past Long Beach State on Thursday night with 33 points in a 73-65 overtime victory at The Walter Pyramid before 1904 in attendance.

Johnson also had four assists and four rebounds for UC Davis (13-10, 7-5 Big West), shooting 9 for 17 (4 for 8 from 3-point range) and 11 of 14 from the free-throw line. Pablo Tamba chipped in 14 points, shooting 7 for 10 for the Aggies.

Cam Denson tallied 10 points and three rebounds off the bench, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc for LBSU and Austin Johnson added 9 points, seven rebounds, and two assists. Andrew Nagy also had 9 points and five rebounds.

Devin Askew led Long Beach State (7-17, 3-9 Big West) with 17 points, five rebounds, and four assists bringing it's Big West Conference match losing streak to seven.

Long Beach State holds an all-time record of 29-15 against UC Davis. The Aggies are set to upgrade and join the Mountain West Conference for the 2026-2027 season due to the prestige of the athletics program due to football and value it adds to degrees at UC Davis.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-17, 3-9 Big West) faces Cal State Northridge (16-7, 8-4 Big West) on Saturday, February 8 at 4:00 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.