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LBSU picks up second Big West win in a row against UC Riverside

1/16/2026

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Petar Majstorovic’s 22 points helped Long Beach State (7-11, 3-3 Big West) defeat UC Riverside (6-12, 1-5 Big West) 88-73 on Thursday in the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.

Freshman Leopold Levillan chipped in a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds for LBSU. Long Beach State is now on a two game win streak.

Marqui Worthy Jr. led all scorers with 23 points, nine rebounds, and two assists for the Highlanders.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (7-11, 3-3 Big West) faces Cal State Northridge (11-8, 4-3 Big West) on Saturday, January 17 at 5:00 p.m. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State tops Cal State Bakersfield for 2nd home win in a row

1/12/2026

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Petar Majstorovic tallied 23 points and three rebounds to lift Long Beach State to a 81-75 win over Cal State Bakersfield on Thursday, LBSU's second straight victory at home.

Rob Diaz III had 20 points, nine assists, and six rebounds for Long Beach State (6-11, 2-3 Big West Conference).

Jaden Alexzander led all scorers with 29 points for the Roadrunners (13-9, 9-4 Big West).

The Roadrunners swept the 2024-2025 regular season series against Long Beach State. Long Beach State has an 8-6 all-time record against upstart Big West Conference rival CSU Bakersfield with the first match against LBSU occurring in 2006.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (6-11, 2-3 Big West) faces UC Riverside (6-11, 1-4 Big West) on Thursday, January 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State's woes worsen with miserable loss to UC Irvine

1/8/2026

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Jurian Dixon had 23 points to help UC Irvine hold off Long Beach State 74-64 on Thursday night.

Dixon also totaled three steals and dished out three assists for the Anteaters (12-5, 5-0 Big West). Kyle Evans finished with 15 points, six rebounds, two blocks, and one assist. Tama Issac scored nine.

Gavin Skyes finished with 21 points and three rebounds to lead Long Beach State (5-11, 1-3 Big West), at the Black and Blue Rivlary match loss. Petar Majstorovic added 15 points, eight rebounds, and three assists. Cole Farrell scored nine.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (5-11, 1-3 Big West) faces Cal State Bakersfield (8-9, 2-3 Big West) on Saturday, January 10 at 4:00 p.m. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

LBSU upsets Cal Poly for first Big West Conference win of the season

1/5/2026

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Petar Majstorovic had 25 points a career high leading the way in LBSU’s defeat of Cal Poly 74-66 on Saturday at the Gold Mine.

Majstorovic made his second double-double this season with 10 rebounds and three assists for Long Beach State (5-10, 1-2 Big West). Gavin Skyes scored 16 points while going 5 of 13 (3 for 7 from 3-point range). Cole Farrell shot 5 for 7 to finish with 10 points. Long Beach State is now on a two game winning streak after the last match win against Lincoln University of the NAIA.

Hamad Mousa finished with 19 points and eight boards for the Mustangs (6-10, 2-2). Cal Poly also got 15 points and four rebounds from Jake Davis. Guzman Vasilic finished with nine points.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (5-10, 1-2 Big West) faces UC Irvine (11-5, 4-0 Big West) on Thursday, January 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Bren Events Center, Irvine, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State cruises to 113-66 win over NAIA’s Lincoln University

12/30/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Gavin Skyes scored 21 leading Long Beach State (4-10, 0-2 Big West) to a 113-66 victory over NAIA member Lincoln University on Tuesday.

“That was a great win for us after a nice little break away from each other,” Long Beach State coach Chris Acker said. “I think really good teams continue to improve throughout the course of the season we just want to win.”

Petar Majstorovic, Cole Farrell, and Shaquil Bender scored 16 points each for LBSU. Long Beach State shared the ball well enough to have 31 assists and the most points it’s scored since 2018 against Bethesda with 124 points.

Laolu Kalajaiye lead all scorers for the Oaklanders (2-6) with 26 points. Brandon Williams had 13 points and Claude Mckesey added 11 points and six rebounds.

Long Beach State took the lead with 14:47 left in the first half and did not trail again, leading 55-38 at the half.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (4-10, 0-2 Big West) faces Cal Poly (5-9, 1-1 Big West) on Saturday, January 3 at 6:00 p.m. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Iowa State blows out Long State 91-60

12/24/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Long Beach State (3-10, 0-2 Big West) had a predictable loss over the weekend to Iowa State (12-0, 0-0 Big 12). LBSU had a surprise win against Pepperdine 81-78 early last week but could not go one a two game winning streak in non-conference play. Offense was key for the Cyclones putting up 57 points in the first half with a 37 point lead at halftime with the second half lead maxed out at 43 points.

Gavin Skyes led LBSU with 19 points and Rob Diaz III chipped in 13. Chris Acker now has a record of 10-35 with Long Beach State since Dan Monson was abruptly fired for no legitimate reason.

Milan Momcilovic led all scorers for Iowa State with 27 points.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (3-10, 0-2 Big West) faces Lincoln University (2-6) on Tuesday, December 30 at 7:00 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State upsets Pepperdine 81-78

12/19/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Gavin Skyes finished with 23 points and reserve Shaquil Bender added 13 points to power Long Beach State (3-9, 0-2 Big West) to a 81-78 upset win over Pepperdine (4-8, 0-0 West Coast) on Thursday night before 1006 in attendance. Majstorovic finished with 20 points, six rebounds and three assists for LBSU, with one steal. “Credit to the guys for showing up tonight we really stuck to our game plan and executed it,” Chris Acker said.

Styles Phipps led all scorers with 25 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists. Danilo Dozic added 15 points for the Waves, Javon Cooley added 17 points and five rebounds.

Pepperdine led 37-36 at halftime.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (3-9, 0-2 Big West) faces Iowa State (11-0, 0-0 Big 12) on Sunday, December 21 at 3:00 p.m. at the Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State drops overtime battle with San Jose 89-83

12/9/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Gavin Skyes had 26 points, Petar Majstorovic chipped in 21 points, eights boards with four steals and Long Beach State (2-9, 0-2 Big West) was defeated by San Jose State (5-5, 0-0 Mountain West) 89-83 in overtime. Cole Farrell added 11 points and four assists off the bench for LBSU.

The Spartans Colby Garland led all scorers with 27 points. Garland had 10 points in overtime going 8 of 8 from the charity stripe and the opening bucket of overtime.

San Jose State’s senior from France, Yaphet Moundi scored 18 points and made the match tying shot with 1:02 left on the clock.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (2-9, 0-2 Big West) faces Pepperdine (4-8, 0-0 West Coast) on Thursday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.

Long Beach State loses 80-74 to UC San Diego in Second Big West Conference match

12/7/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — LBSU fell short again with a six-point loss to the Tritons in the Big West Conference match. After dropping a home game to UC San Diego 80-74 Long Beach State sits at 2-8 overall and only 0-2 in conference play.

It’s a tough way to lose: back-to-back with single digit point losses with odds for wins so low currently due to Dan Monson’s fraudulent exit forced by CSU Board of Trustees and Smitheran’s dishonorable professional existence.

This Long Beach State team has not had a lot of success since Dan Monson’s frivolous firing and has been saved by the dominant performance of Freshman phenom Gavin Skyes out of Sacramento, California. Skyes has proven to be LBSU’s most reliable scoring option averaging about 16 points per game making 45% of his shots from the field and 35.6% from three-point territory.

Petar Majstorovic razzled as LBSU shot 46% from the field while scoring 18 points and continued to make strides as a playmaker with six considerable boards.

Free throw rates and fouls ultimately caused the loss against the former Division II recently turned Division I program. The Tritons (8-1, 1-0 Big West) shot 76% from the charity stripe on 15 more attempts than LBSU. Long Beach State only shot 70% and committed 19 fouls before 1153 in attendance at LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid.

Adrian Burke led UC San Diego with 18 points and Leo Beath added a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

The tactical positions great teams take to win were not present last night with Long Beach State. The athletics department needs a director with honor perhaps even a coaching change due to dishonorable circumstances that led to the exit of Dan Monson.

Freshman Gavin Skyes led all scorers with 20 points.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (2-8, 0-2 Big West) faces San Jose State (4-5, 0-0 Mountain West) on Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Provident Credit Union Event Center, San Jose, California. Live coverage on Mountain West Network.

LBSU opens Big West Play with OT loss to UC Santa Barbara

12/6/2025

Jason R. Aula

LOS ANGELES, California — Long Beach State (2-7, 0-1 Big West) came up short in overtime 84-77 against UC Santa Barbara (7-1, 1-0 Big West) on Thursday at The Thunderdome before 2072 in attendance. LBSU was only down by one at the half and held the lead many times in a back and forth match. The Gauchos put away the game effectively with a four point play from Colin Smith.

Gavin Skyes led LBSU with 24 points and Shaquil Bender added 19 points.

"Our guys really battled to the end tonight," said head coach Joe Pasternack. "Every conference game is a war, and I am really proud of our guys' consistency, especially without Miro in the game for close to 35 minutes."

Senior Mahaney Aidan led all scorers for the Guachos with 26.

UP NEXT: Long Beach State (2-7, 0-1 Big West) faces UC San Diego (7-1, 0-0 Big West) on Saturday, December 6 at 6:00 pm. at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, Long Beach, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.