LONG BEACH — On paper, the UC Davis women’s basketball team features two of the best players in the Big West Conference.

In reality, it was Long Beach State senior guards Savannah Tucker and Patricia Chung who made the difference in their 73-60 win over the visiting Aggies in a first-place showdown on Saturday afternoon at Walter Pyramid.

Tucker scored 22 points and Chung scored 15 for LBSU (9-5 overall, 5-0 Big West), both shooting 6 for 11 from the floor and 2 for 3 from 3-point range to help extend Long Beach’s winning streak to four games, the longest in two seasons under coach Amy Wright.

“I’m so glad these two are here right now because they deserve it,” Wright said as she pointed to Tucker on her right and Chung on her left. “They deserve to be here, they deserve to be 5-0, they deserve to be at the top of the conference.”

UC Davis (11-5, 5-1) entered the game as the only other unbeaten team in the Big West, riding an eight-game winning streak and boasting the highest scoring offense in the conference (73.3 points per game), but the Aggies were held to 28.3% shooting from the floor.

UC Davis guard Tova Sabel came into the game second in the conference in scoring (15.7 ppg) and third in 3-point shooting (36.8%), but the native of Stockholm, Sweden missed all nine of her 3-point attempts and was held to a season-low seven points.

“You can’t have a good night every night,” Tucker said.

LBSU also found an answer for Megan Norris. The 6-foot-3 center came in leading the conference in field-goal percentage (48.1), but shot just 1 for 7 from the floor before fouling out with 1:56 left.

“The whole week we were talking about just making sure that we had great ball pressure, fronting the post,” Chung said. “Just listening to the adjustments and making sure we are communicating on the floor.”

LBSU never trailed in the game, scoring the first six points and prompting a quick timeout by Aggies coach Jennifer Gross.

Tucker gave LBSU its first double-digit lead at 18-8 after making a 3-pointer following her steal in the backcourt.

Davis strung together a 10-run to cut it the margin to two before the end of the quarter, but that’s as close as the Aggies got.

JaQuoia Jones-Brown came off the bench for Long Beach and scored six straight points to push the lead back to double digits at 32-22, and LBSU eventually took a 35-22 advantage by halftime after outscoring the Aggies 13-3 in the second quarter.

Long Beach maintained its double-digit lead throughout the third quarter and extended it to 22 points on two occasions early in the fourth.

Davis put together another 10-0 run capped by Sabel ending her 0-for-11 start to the game by making a backdoor layup to make it 60-49 with 5:51 left, but LBSU again tightened up defensively and stopped the run there.

“She’s a good player and she’s going to keep shooting. That’s what great players do,” Tucker said of Sabel. “She averages 15 for a reason. She wasn’t going to stop shooting, so I think the best thing we could do, and that we did, is get her to continue to take tough shots.”

Wright credited Tucker and Chung with settling things down when it began to get dicey.

“They’re learning to lead,” she said. “They’re having to lead and having to show the new ones the expectations and the style we want to play.”