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 +.
“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)
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