Clips

BOTTOM LINE: The Cal State Northridge Matadors are set to battle the Gators of Division II San Francisco State. Cal State Northridge lost 79-73 at Pacific in its most recent game. --FOX 5 Las Vegas

There is more to come too. A number of age-group New Zealand players who have just finished school in New Zealand have committed to colleges in America for the 2020-21 season including Sam Mennenga (Davidson College), Marvin Williams-Dunn (Utah State Eastern), Tayla Dalton (St Mary’s College, California) and Rochelle Fourie (University of California Northridge). -- Voxy - New Zealand

The box score shows Collin Welp led UC Irvine (7-5) with 18 points and seven rebounds in the Anteaters’ 74-68 victory over Kent State on Monday in El Paso, Texas. It also shows Brad Greene, a 6-11 junior center, had a heck of a game. He scored 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting from the field, grabbed five rebounds, blocked a shot and made a steal in 23 minutes. … Although Long Beach State lost 87-76 at USC on Sunday, LBSU represented itself well against a Trojans team that is 9-2. Sophomore guard Chance Hunter scored 18 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including a 4-of-8 mark from 3-point range. In LBSU’s previous game – a 65-46 home loss to Pacific eight days earlier – Hunter was 0 of 6 from the field and did not score. He leads Long Beach with a 14.5 scoring average. … Junior guard Terrell Gomez of CSUN (2-8) leads the Big West in scoring at 22.6 ppg. … Long Beach State freshman Joshua Morgan, who is 6-11, leads the conference in blocked shots at 2.1 per game. … Callum McCrae, a 7-1 sophomore center for UC Riverside (7-4), is second in rebounding at 7.6 per game. -- Los Angeles Daily News

“We want to be the next Gonzaga,” Cal State Northridge athletics director Brandon Martin told reporters when he introduced Reggie Theus as his new basketball coach in 2013. (Theus is 47-81 in the four years since.) -- Stock Daily Dish