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UC Santa Barbara<\/p>\n
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\n \u00a0UC Santa Barbara
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History <\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n HONOLULU \u2013 The Hawai’i men’s basketball team dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season with an 86-75 setback to Cal Poly. With the rare home loss, the Rainbow Warriors (18-7, 10-5) fell into a tie for second place in the Big West standings with CSUN, a game behind first-place UC Irvine.\u00a0<\/p>\n Coming off a tough road loss at CSUN, UH looked to get right at home where they were 14-1 this season and had won 10 straight. But Cal Poly (12-16, 8-8) had other plans, winning its third straight game, all of them against the top three teams in the league standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Mustangs got off to a rapid start and held off every comeback attempt by the Rainbow Warriors who dropped just their second home game this year and first since a November 20 loss to Arizona State. It also marked UH’s first home loss to Cal Poly in 11 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hamad Mousa, the league’s top scorer, led four Mustangs in double-digits with a game-high 24 points. Dre Bullock<\/a> scored 22 points and added nine rebounds for the Rainbow Warriors. Isaac Johnson<\/a> scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half and went a perfect 10-for-10 from the free-throw line. Cal Poly maintained a slim lead and UH went without a field goal for the final 8:10 of the half while the Mustangs closed with a 9-2 run to take a 44-35 lead into the break. UH’s shot just 34.6% in the first half.<\/p>\n UH rallied in the second half and finally caught up with the Mustangs thanks to Bullock’s personal 7-0 run. Bullock hit a 3-pointer, two free throws and a driving finish to forge the game’s first tie at 52-52 at the 13:27 mark.<\/p>\n But Cal Poly responded with a 9-0 run of their own, punctuated by a Troy Plumtree breakaway dunk, to open up a 61-52 lead with 10 minutes left.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\nThe Mustangs bolted out to a 15-2 lead with a 6-for-8 start from the field. After going down by 15, the ‘Bows battled back and hit five consecutive shots in a 14-2 run that closed the gap to a single point. Isaac Finlinson<\/a> ignited the run with a driving layup and later stormed down the middle of the lane for a dunk.<\/p>\n