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Long before he soared across the cover of Sports Illustrated, John Wall shone bright in the basketball firmament.

Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 10:18 p.m. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Kyle Austin scored 20 points and Larry Gurganious added 18 to lead UC Riverside to a 69-67 overtime victory over Long Beach State Saturday night.

Larry Anderson scored 14 points for Long Beach State , which couldn't get closer than 13 points in the second half and lost its third straight.

John Wall scored 19 points and No. 3 Kentucky pulled away in the second half for an 86-73 victory over Long Beach State on Wednesday.

Long Beach State continued its march through the royalty of college basketball Wednesday afternoon at fabled Rupp Arena in front of 24,288 roaring Kentucky fans.

The Wildcats were looking for victory #2,001. Long Beach State had other ideas during their Wednesday afternoon game, namely upsetting a third ranked Kentucky team which looked like they ready for winter break rather than playing a 1:00 o' clock start game against another mid-major team.

In a game that couldn't have been much more competitive, the Loyola Marymount men's basketball team needed a deep 3-pointer - and an extra five minutes of action - to come out with a 85-80 victory over the visiting Long Beach State 49ers on Monday night.

The victory in Green Bay was turnabout for a decisive loss to the same program a year ago in the Walter Pyramid.

T.J. Robinson recorded a double-double with 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Long Beach State 49ers to a 75-62 win over the Utah State Aggies in non-conference action at the Pyramid.

Long Beach State tops Cal State Monterey Bay 96-61 Eds: APNewsNow. Long Beach State 96, Cal State Monterey Bay 61.

If you were a Long Beach State basketball loyalist, it was a horror spectacle, a faulty-passing, wayward-dribbling, disjointed-defending, errant-shooting flameout against a vastly superior opponent.

Unbeaten, second-ranked Texas got 17 points from Avery Bradley and hit 59 percent of its field goals Monday en route to a 107-74 whipping of Long Beach State.

The Texas Longhorns welcome the Long Beach State 49ers to Austin this evening for what many expect will be a lopsided non- conference affair.

That UCLA, a program of this prestige, tradition, national profile and prodigious talent, had to wake up to play the 11:30 a.m. Sunday game in the 76 Classic's biggest-loser bracket round was bad enough.

Go back through the record book -- there were plenty of seasons when UCLA might not have seen Long Beach State as a threat.

The Long Beach State men's basketball team bounced back Friday with a much more competitive performance against a nationally-ranked opponent than it turned in on Thanksgiving.

In preparing his basketball team for its Monday night game at Pepperdine, Long Beach State coach Dan Monson tried to make a succinct point.

Larry Anderson scored 15 of his team-high 20 points in the second half to lead visiting Long Beach State to a 67-58 victory over Pepperdine on Tuesday night.

At 7:30 Saturday morning, eight and a half hours before his Long Beach State basketball team opened its season against something called Alaska-Anchorage, Dan Monson was performing culinary duties at the Walter Pyramid.

Guard Larry Anderson's 18 points and seven assists were a major driving force behind Long Beach State's 86-65 victory over Alaska-Anchorage Saturday.