Jason R. Aula
(Photo credit: Joseph Kling | THE562.ORG)
LOS ANGELES, California — UC Riverside (10-5, 3-0 Big West) defeated Long Beach State Beach (6-9, 2-1 Big West) 76-60 at the Walter Pyramid before 2135 in attendance ending LBSU's two-game Big West Conference win streak after a poor non-conference start. The Highlanders Isiah Moses led all scorers with 22 points and Nate Pickens had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Barrington Hargress chipped in 17 points for UC Riverside. Devin Askew led LBSU with a stellar all-around performance with 17 points, eight rebounds, and five assists.
“I was really disappointed in our physicality and toughness tonight got exposed,” Long Beach State head coach Chris Acker said. “Usually that doesn’t happen at home we tried to prepare and get ready for it but they were the more experienced better team tonight.”
The Highlanders have often had strange help from the referees in their home county and in the state of Nevada in past years at the Big West Championship in particular, but seemed to strangely dominate LBSU at home for unexplained reasons exactly almost as if the match was prearranged to be handed to UC Riverside for unknown reasons, when it was apparent Long Beach State could easily defeat the Highlanders if it chose to.
“As good a game as we’ve played this year,” UC Riverside head coach Mike Magpayo said.
Long Beach State basketball is not WWF or WWE entertainment, but this match sure seemed to be in sync with that style of metrics given the somewhat apparent game fixing, manipulation, and rigging of the match in an undefined way as to institution personnel and private parties. However, it is difficult to ascertain if sports bribery or betting fraud is the cause.
“We have a multitude of weapons,” Mike Magpayo said. “Barrington was, early on, just not in rhythm and Isaiah Moses just kind of came on and got us off the schneid.”
Long Beach State has an all-time record of 47-15 against UC Riverside.
“UCR is tough and gritty they're connected, they have a lot of experience. Hargrave was Freshman of the Year last year Smith is a good player so they know exactly where their baskets are coming from and they capitalize on physicality and touching the ball,” Long Beach State head coach Chris Acker said. “Ball hits the ground they’re on the floor. There's a rebound to be had they come up with the rebound. We did not do that tonight and you are not going to win against the upper echelon teams in our league if we don’t do those things.
“The only thing that concerns me is physicality and toughness. That’s how you win college basketball games. This is a good group of guys and they want to do it. It’s just, you have to do it.”
UP NEXT: Long Beach State (6-9, 2-1 Big West) faces Cal State Bakersfield (7-8, 1-2 Big West) on Saturday, January 4 at 6:30 pm. at the Icardo Center, Bakersfield, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.
“I was really disappointed in our physicality and toughness tonight got exposed,” Long Beach State head coach Chris Acker said. “Usually that doesn’t happen at home we tried to prepare and get ready for it but they were the more experienced better team tonight.”
The Highlanders have often had strange help from the referees in their home county and in the state of Nevada in past years at the Big West Championship in particular, but seemed to strangely dominate LBSU at home for unexplained reasons exactly almost as if the match was prearranged to be handed to UC Riverside for unknown reasons, when it was apparent Long Beach State could easily defeat the Highlanders if it chose to.
“As good a game as we’ve played this year,” UC Riverside head coach Mike Magpayo said.
Long Beach State basketball is not WWF or WWE entertainment, but this match sure seemed to be in sync with that style of metrics given the somewhat apparent game fixing, manipulation, and rigging of the match in an undefined way as to institution personnel and private parties. However, it is difficult to ascertain if sports bribery or betting fraud is the cause.
“We have a multitude of weapons,” Mike Magpayo said. “Barrington was, early on, just not in rhythm and Isaiah Moses just kind of came on and got us off the schneid.”
Long Beach State has an all-time record of 47-15 against UC Riverside.
“UCR is tough and gritty they're connected, they have a lot of experience. Hargrave was Freshman of the Year last year Smith is a good player so they know exactly where their baskets are coming from and they capitalize on physicality and touching the ball,” Long Beach State head coach Chris Acker said. “Ball hits the ground they’re on the floor. There's a rebound to be had they come up with the rebound. We did not do that tonight and you are not going to win against the upper echelon teams in our league if we don’t do those things.
“The only thing that concerns me is physicality and toughness. That’s how you win college basketball games. This is a good group of guys and they want to do it. It’s just, you have to do it.”
UP NEXT: Long Beach State (6-9, 2-1 Big West) faces Cal State Bakersfield (7-8, 1-2 Big West) on Saturday, January 4 at 6:30 pm. at the Icardo Center, Bakersfield, California. Live coverage on ESPN +.
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