Tuesday, March 7
Henderson, NV
8:30 p.m.
8-24,1-18Big West
88
vs
68
Long Beach State
17-16,11-9Big West
1
2
F
Cal Poly
35
53
88
Long Beach St.
40
28
68
Team Stats
CPO
LBSU
FG%
.508
.364
3FG%
.500
.286
FT%
.773
.688
RB
41
29
TO
16
14
STL
6
5
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
28
FGM
8
3FGM
4
FTM
8
Pts
16
FGM
6
3FGM
3
FTM
1
Pts
14
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
8
Pts
10
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
PG
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Photo by: Ian Billings Photography
Mustangs Oust Long Beach State to Reach Big West Championships Quarterfinals
3/7/2023 11:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS CENTRAL | INTERACTIVE MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS BRACKET
HENDERSON, Nev. – Junior forward Brantly Stevenson led four Mustangs in double-digit scoring figures with 28 points Tuesday evening as the 10th-seeded Cal Poly men's basketball program advanced to the Big West Championships quarterfinals for the second time in three years with an 88-68 opening-round victory against No. 7 Long Beach State inside the Dollar Loan Center.
Graduate guard Nick Fleming finished with 16 points – his highest total in 32 games as a Mustang – as Cal Poly moved on to face No. 2 UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, March 9 in a 6 p.m. quarterfinal matchup.
Trailing Long Beach State (17-16) by five at halftime, Cal Poly (8-24) – which snapped an 18-game slide and prevailed for the first time since Dec. 29 – opened the second period with a 23-8 run, shot 63.0 (17-for-27) percent from the floor during the second half, knocked down six of nine second-half three-point attempts and led by double digits for the final 11 minutes.
Having lost both regular season matchups to Long Beach State by an average of 18.5 points per defeat, Cal Poly also broke a six-game overall slide to The Beach dating to the 2019-20 season.
Averaging 60.1 points per game entering Tuesday's matchup, Cal Poly's 88-point output was its highest against a Division I opponent this season.
Facing Long Beach State for the first time in the Big West Championships in 13 years, Cal Poly secured its first postseason win against The Beach in three all-time attempts.
Keyed by three three-pointers and a layup from Stevenson inside the opening five minutes of action Tuesday, Cal Poly leapt out to an early 15-10 lead.
Cal Poly, however, was kept to just two layups during an ensuing eight-minute span with Long Beach State's resulting 14-4 run helping The Beach carve out a five-point lead seven-and-a-half minutes before the break.
A dunk from junior center Bryan Penn-Johnson, a Fleming three-pointer and a Stevenson jumper afforded Cal Poly a 26-25 lead with five minutes to play in the half. Long Beach State though closed the opening half with a 15-9 run to take a 40-35 lead into the break.
Cal Poly, however, kept Long Beach State to a 2-for-10 shooting start to begin the second half and surged into a 52-45 lead with 12-and-a-half minutes to go.
HENDERSON, Nev. – Junior forward Brantly Stevenson led four Mustangs in double-digit scoring figures with 28 points Tuesday evening as the 10th-seeded Cal Poly men's basketball program advanced to the Big West Championships quarterfinals for the second time in three years with an 88-68 opening-round victory against No. 7 Long Beach State inside the Dollar Loan Center.
Graduate guard Nick Fleming finished with 16 points – his highest total in 32 games as a Mustang – as Cal Poly moved on to face No. 2 UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, March 9 in a 6 p.m. quarterfinal matchup.
Trailing Long Beach State (17-16) by five at halftime, Cal Poly (8-24) – which snapped an 18-game slide and prevailed for the first time since Dec. 29 – opened the second period with a 23-8 run, shot 63.0 (17-for-27) percent from the floor during the second half, knocked down six of nine second-half three-point attempts and led by double digits for the final 11 minutes.
Having lost both regular season matchups to Long Beach State by an average of 18.5 points per defeat, Cal Poly also broke a six-game overall slide to The Beach dating to the 2019-20 season.
Averaging 60.1 points per game entering Tuesday's matchup, Cal Poly's 88-point output was its highest against a Division I opponent this season.
Facing Long Beach State for the first time in the Big West Championships in 13 years, Cal Poly secured its first postseason win against The Beach in three all-time attempts.
Keyed by three three-pointers and a layup from Stevenson inside the opening five minutes of action Tuesday, Cal Poly leapt out to an early 15-10 lead.
Cal Poly, however, was kept to just two layups during an ensuing eight-minute span with Long Beach State's resulting 14-4 run helping The Beach carve out a five-point lead seven-and-a-half minutes before the break.
A dunk from junior center Bryan Penn-Johnson, a Fleming three-pointer and a Stevenson jumper afforded Cal Poly a 26-25 lead with five minutes to play in the half. Long Beach State though closed the opening half with a 15-9 run to take a 40-35 lead into the break.
Cal Poly, however, kept Long Beach State to a 2-for-10 shooting start to begin the second half and surged into a 52-45 lead with 12-and-a-half minutes to go.
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