{"id":683,"date":"2011-08-11T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/espn2-to-broadcast-long-beach-state-uc-santa-barbara-game\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:31:00","slug":"espn2-to-broadcast-long-beach-state-uc-santa-barbara-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/espn2-to-broadcast-long-beach-state-uc-santa-barbara-game","title":{"rendered":"ESPN2 to Broadcast Long Beach State &#8211; UC Santa Barbara Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3:25pm | <\/strong>ESPN2 will broadcast Long Beach State\u2019s home Big West  Conference men\u2019s basketball game with UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday,  February 22.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The game, originally scheduled to be played on  December 29, is being moved to February 22 to accommodate ESPN, while  two other 49er games will change dates as well. The 49ers home game with  UC Irvine scheduled for February 23 (Thursday) will now be played at  the Walter Pyramid on February 29 (Wednesday), and the LBSU game at Cal  State Fullerton scheduled for February 29 will now take place on March 3  (Saturday).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The nationally-televised game between the 49ers and  Gauchos will pit last year\u2019s Big West Conference regular-season  champions against the league\u2019s tournament champions. The 49ers claimed  the regular-season title with a 14-2 league record, while UCSB won its  second straight league tournament title. It will also feature the last  two Big West Conference Players of the Year in Long Beach State\u2019s Casper  Ware (2011) and UC Santa Barbara\u2019s Orlando Johnson (2010).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>LBSU  swept the regular-season series between the two teams last year winning  71-55 in Santa Barbara on December 28 and 71-53 in Long Beach on  February 26. UCSB picked up a 64-56 win in the championship game of the  Big West Tournament on March 12 snapping the 49ers\u2019 11-game winning  streak.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The two teams will return a combined seven starters from  the 2011 Big West Conference Tournament championship game, with the  49ers returning four in Ware, first-team All-Big West pick Larry  Anderson, second-team All-Big West selection T.J. Robinson, and  honorable mention all-league honoree Eugene Phelps.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The remainder of the Big West Conference television package for the 2011-12 season will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game moved to new date along with two other 49er games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}