The Long Beach State and UC Irvine women’s teams also finish the regular season against one another with games Friday and Saturday at the Bren Events Center. Long Beach (11-7, 10-6) is in third place, just behind the Anteaters (12-7, 10-3). UC Davis (9-1, 8-0) is in first. … The UC Riverside men continue to show they can hang with anyone in the conference. The Highlanders (11-7, 6-4) defeated first-place UC Santa Barbara, 68-52, behind Zyon Pullin’s 21 points on Saturday, snapping the Gauchos’ 13-game winning streak a day after losing to them, 72-68. Fourth-place UC Riverside finishes the regular season with games Friday and Saturday at seventh-place Cal State Northridge (9-10, 5-7). … CSUN junior guard TJ Starks continues to lead the conference in scoring with a 21.7 average; he scored 25 in the Matadors’ 90-87 victory at Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday.
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