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COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP

By STEVE HENSON
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Cal State Northridge 78, Weber State 68--The Matadors played perhaps their best game, using a zone defense to shut down the Wildcats in a Big Sky Conference game before 755 at Northridge.

With only one game in the next two weeks and the conference schedule at the halfway point, Northridge (12-8, 4-4) took time to relish a three-game winning streak that has brightened a season that appeared on the skids a week ago.

Northridge equaled last season’s victory total and it is the earliest the team reached 12 victories since the 1981-82 season, before most of the current Matadors began kindergarten.

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Northridge’s zone press appeared to take the Wildcats by surprise. They scored only 10 points in the first 9:30 and shot 27% in the first half as Northridge built a 44-28 lead.

The Wildcats (14-6, 5-2), who are 11-0 when leading at halftime, went to the locker room unhappy with the officiating, the rowdy fans and most of all, their play.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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