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Cal State Bakersfield
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Big West Championship-Bound Mustangs Enjoy Historic Scoring Night in Regular Season Finale
3/7/2026 8:06:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – Sophomore Hamad Mousa led seven Mustangs in double-digit scoring figures with 23 points Saturday afternoon as the Cal Poly men’s basketball program completed the regular season with its highest regulation offensive output in 26 years, defeating Cal State Bakersfield, 108-76.
Sophomores Guzman Vasilic and Cayden Ward each finished with 16 points for Cal Poly (14-18, 10-10), which closed the first half with a 21-2 run to lead at the break, 62-41.
The Mustangs, who sank 13 three-pointers, quickly extended their lead to 74-42 after Mousa connected three times from long range inside the opening three minutes of the second half.
Committing just nine turnovers, Cal Poly led by as much as 42 during the second half.
Troy Plumtree scored 11 points for Cal Poly while Jackson Mosley, Peter Bandelj and Austin Goode each added 10. Bandelj also enjoyed eight assists – one shy of his career best.
Ward, meanwhile, grabbed a team high nine rebounds.
Cal Poly’s 108-point regulation output was its highest since defeating Cal State Fullerton at home on Feb. 12, 2000, 108-79.
Ending the regular season with a BANG??#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/gARe88LPQI
— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) March 8, 2026
Cal Poly Noteworthy (versus Cal State Bakersfield)
- Up Next: Seeded No. 8 for the March 11-14 Big West Championship, Cal Poly faces No. 5 seed UC San Diego in a Wednesday, March 11 opening-round matchup. Tip time on ESPN+ is 6 p.m.
- The Big West’s top scorer at 20.4 points per game, Hamad Mousa brought his season total to 631 points Saturday – 27 shy of Stuart Thomas’s program-record 658 set during the 1990-91 season.
- Mousa also ranks second in program single season history with 175 free throws (three off Thomas’s 1990-91 record), fourth with 84 three-pointers, eighth with an 87.5 percent free throw mark and 11th with 186 field goals.
- The Big West’s second highest scoring program at 82.5 points per game – the second best single season total in program history – Cal Poly has now scored 100-plus points in four of 14 victories.
- Cal Poly’s 62-point first half Saturday marked its highest output of the season.
- Cal Poly’s 10-10 Big West finish marked its highest conference win total since finishing 12-6 to close the 2012-13 season.
What he said???#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/PdCSgiCM1P
— Cal Poly Men’s Basketball (@calpolymbb) March 8, 2026
