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By STEVE HENSON

Dec. 9, 2000 12 AM PT

SAN JOSE STATE (3-2) AT PEPPERDINE (4-2), 7:30--After appearing overwhelmed in a loss at Georgia, freshman point guard Micah McKinney of Pepperdine had 15 points and eight assists in an 81-62 victory over Long Beach State. Forward Kelvin Gibbs recorded his fifth double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Guard Craig Lewis did not play against Long Beach and is questionable with an ankle injury. San Jose State ended a two-game losing streak by defeating Warner Pacific, 80-41.

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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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