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Basketball Long Beach State

Feature: Behind the Scenes of Long Beach State’s Stifling Defense

On paper, there’s nothing particularly intimidating about the Long Beach State women’s basketball team’s defense. They don’t have a premier ball-stopper or shot-blocker and only one all-conference defender on the roster–they don’t have any national leaderboard or conference-leading players in the defensive statistical categories. Yet somehow the Beach entered last weekend’s series against UC Santa […]

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Basketball Long Beach Poly

Long Beach Poly Alum KJ Feagin Named to USA Basketball Team

PHOTOS BY WILLIAM JOHNSON, STEPHEN CARR, AND COURTESY SAN DIEGO STATE Long Beach Poly basketball product KJ Feagin will represent the United States on the international stage this month, playing on the USA Basketball squad that is traveling to Puerto Rico for the FIBA AmeriCup qualifiers. Feagin and the USA team will be in San Juan […]

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Basketball Long Beach State

Long Beach State Women Sweep UCSB, Set Up Davis Showdown

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team completed its weekend sweep of UC Santa Barbara with a comfortable 70-55 win on Saturday afternoon that improves the Beach to 11-1, and a perfect 10-0 in Big West play. It’s the team’s best start in 15 years and sets up a championship-level showdown with UC Davis next […]

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Basketball Long Beach State

Long Beach State Women Continue Historic Start With UCSB Win

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team continued its excellent start to the season with a strong defensive win over UC Santa Barbara, 61-49. The Beach was without its most consistent offensive player in Naomi Hunt and struggled from the field, but played excellent defense to secure the win. “You’re not going to put the […]