Jason R. Aula
LOS ANGELES, California — Long Beach State (11-9, 6-1 Big West Conference) defeated CSU Bakersfield (6-10, 1-6 Big West Conference) 74-65 at The Walter Pyramid. LBSU is on a seven-game winning streak with four team members scoring in double digits. The Big West Conference lead is now shared three ways.
“At the beginning of the year, we were getting scored on a lot and we felt like, ‘OK, we’ve got to figure this out,’” Slater said. Colin Slater led all scorers with 23 points and Aboucar Traore had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. “He’s kind of our X-factor,” Monson said of Traore. “Kind of our stabilizer on both ends of the floor.”
Kaleb Higgins led the Roadrunners with 21 points and Elder-Davis chipped in 16 points with a dominate offense demonstration during the first half. “We just didn’t dictate on the defensive end in the first half,” LBSU coach Dan Monson said. “We didn’t play bad defense, but we didn’t disrupt like this team has to.”
Coach Monson's tough non-conference schedule is yielding dividends that will result in a March Madness appearance. “We’re so small, you just can’t play position defense,” Monson said. “We’ve got to be out there getting some deflections, get them out of dry run and get them having to make plays on the move, and we did that a little bit better in the second half.”
“At the beginning of the year, we were getting scored on a lot and we felt like, ‘OK, we’ve got to figure this out,’” Slater said. Colin Slater led all scorers with 23 points and Aboucar Traore had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. “He’s kind of our X-factor,” Monson said of Traore. “Kind of our stabilizer on both ends of the floor.”
Kaleb Higgins led the Roadrunners with 21 points and Elder-Davis chipped in 16 points with a dominate offense demonstration during the first half. “We just didn’t dictate on the defensive end in the first half,” LBSU coach Dan Monson said. “We didn’t play bad defense, but we didn’t disrupt like this team has to.”
Coach Monson's tough non-conference schedule is yielding dividends that will result in a March Madness appearance. “We’re so small, you just can’t play position defense,” Monson said. “We’ve got to be out there getting some deflections, get them out of dry run and get them having to make plays on the move, and we did that a little bit better in the second half.”
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