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Long Beach State
vs
Cal Irvine
Today's Featured Sports Pick

Game Date:
03/12/2016
12:10am EST

Lines:
Long Beach State +4
UC Irvine -4

Total:
Over 140 (-108)
Under 140 (-108)

Community Picks: Long Beach State 0% vs Cal Irvine 0%

Long Beach State and Cal Irvine Thread

Team Tweets & News Articles
Long Beach State
UC Irvine beat Long Beach State the first two times the teams met this season. When it counted most, though, the 49ers found a way to come out on top. Justin Bibbins scored 17 points, Nick Faust added 15, and third-seeded Long Beach State upset the No. 2-seed Anteaters 77-72 in the Big West Conference Tournament semifinals Friday night. Continue to Article
March 12, 2016 3:47:am EST
Long Beach State
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Justin Bibbins scored 17 points, Nick Faust added 15, and third-seeded Long Beach State upset No. 2-seed UC Irvine 77-72 in the Big West Conference Tournament semifinals Friday night. Continue to Article
March 12, 2016 2:58:am EST
Long Beach State
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Nick Faust scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and third-seeded Long Beach State defeated No. 6 seed UC Riverside 82-74 in the quarterfinals of the Big West tournament on Thursday night. Continue to Article
March 11, 2016 2:15:am EST
Cal Irvine
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Mike Best scored 20 points and UC Irvine rallied from a 10-point, second-half deficit to beat UC Riverside 76-66 on Saturday in a Big West Conference regular-season finale. Continue to Article
March 05, 2016 7:41:pm EST
Cal Irvine
The most improbable victory of the college basketball season this year occurred at the start of a Jan. 14 game between Long Beach State and UC Irvine.  Five-foot-8 guard Justin Bibbins won the opening tip-off against the tallest player in college basketball,  7-foot-6 center Mamadou Ndiaye. @JeffEisenberg Here's @jbibbs21 winning the first tip this season. pic.twitter.com/Y9eGBnQwhN — LBSU Mens Basketball (@LBSUhoops) February 25, 2016 Since Long Beach State doesn't have a player taller than 6-foot-8, coach Dan Monson figured there was no point in having one of his forwards vie for the ball against Ndiaye. Instead Monson chose to send his fastest guard into the circle and try to win possession another way.  Monson instructed Bibbins not to try to jump at all. Bibbins instead darted to the spot he expected Ndiaye to try to tip the ball and batted it backward toward one of his teammates, giving the 49ers possession to open the game.  The rematch of this season's most fun tip-off occurred Thursday night in Irvine, and once again Bibbins got the call to go up against Ndiaye. The result was more predictable this time as N'Diaye easily tipped the ball backwards to a teammate. Mamadou vs. Justin now stands at 1 and 1. #BlackAndBlue underway. pic.twitter.com/O2kviCJTvu — LBSU Mens Basketball (@LBSUhoops) February 25, 2016 The tip-off between two men of such differing heights is not the only historic jump ball in which Ndiaye has participated this season. Back in November, Ndiaye squared off against Central Florida's 7-foot-6 center Tacko Fall in perhaps the tallest tip-off in basketball history. Bibbins and Ndiaye may be all even in jump balls, but UC Irvine has bragging rights in the win-loss column. The Anteaters (21-8, 10-3) have swept both games from the 49ers (15-13, 9-4) to remain entrenched in second place in the Big West behind first-place Hawaii. - - - - - - - Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @JeffEisenberg Continue to Article
February 25, 2016 5:05:pm EST
 
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